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Professional Background.
Dr. Claiborn is a Counseling and Forensic Psychologist licensed
in Kansas and Missouri. He received his M.A. in Clinical
Psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1970 and his Ph.D. in
Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia
in 1975. His graduate research topics included alcoholism and
group therapy, and he specialized in family therapy,
interpersonal influence, and hypnosis. Dr. Claiborn has worked
with couples, families, and individuals for over 35 years-in
hospitals, in universities, and in private practice. He has
taught graduate courses in psychotherapy, family therapy,
psychological assessment, and hypnosis at Iowa State University
and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has taught
advanced psychiatric residents at the University of Kansas
Medical Center, served as Director of Training in a university
internship program and Director of Psychology at Charter
Hospital, and published on the psychological assessment of
couples and families. He has presented locally and nationally on
such topics as personality disorders, transgender issues,
innovative psychotherapy, psychopaths and serial murderers,
workplace issues, and forensic assessment.
Dr. Claiborn has three times served as President of the Kansas
Association of Professional Psychologists (now the Practice
Division of the Kansas Psychological Association), and he is a
member of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT),
and the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. He is a
Diplomate and Fellow of the American Psychotherapy Association,
and a Board Certified Forensic Examiner and Diplomate in
Forensic Psychology, American Board of Psychological
Specialties. He currently serves as the Ethics Chair of the
Kansas Psychological Association.
Psychotherapy Background.
Dr. Claiborn has received training from many influential
psychotherapists, including Milton Erickson, Jay Haley, Cloe
Madanes, Frank Farrelly, Salvador Minuchin, Jacob Moreno, Carl
Rogers, James Masterson, Irvin Yalom, Marsha Linehan, Gregory
Bateson, Virginia Satir, Carl Whittaker, Will Schutz, John Gray,
Albert Ellis, and many others. He has taught family therapy,
hypnosis, and the therapies of Milton Erickson and Frank
Farrelly. He lectures on personality disorders (borderline and
narcissistic), psychopaths and serial murderers, hypnosis,
stress, forensic psychology, marital therapy, and treating
difficult couples. Dr. Claiborn’s special interest is in
interpersonal dynamics and particularly the different
relationship styles of men and women.
Dr. Claiborn’s therapy style is eclectic, educational, active,
compassionate, positive, and encouraging. He believes people are
not victims, but that they can and do influence their fate. He
uses humor, openness, and directness with his clients and
respects their ability to make choices.
Forensic Psychology and
Police Psychology.
In addition to his private practice of psychotherapy and
organizational development, Dr. Claiborn has specialized in
Forensic and Police Psychology for 25 years. He has served as an
expert witness in criminal and civil litigation, and as a police
psychologist for over 20 law enforcement agencies. His law
enforcement departments include the Kansas Bureau of
Investigation, the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Sheriff’s Offices
of Johnson, Douglas, and Leavenworth Counties, and a number of
Kansas police departments, including Olathe, Leawood, Lenexa,
Shawnee, Leavenworth, and Prairie Village.
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