{"id":17,"date":"2017-12-26T02:37:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T08:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walkerclaritycentre.com\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2020-07-01T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:58:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.walkerclaritycentre.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Dr. Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #2020a1;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-193 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walkerclaritycentre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Gray_Bkgnd_Cropped.jpg?resize=223%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walkerclaritycentre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Gray_Bkgnd_Cropped.jpg?resize=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1 223w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walkerclaritycentre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Gray_Bkgnd_Cropped.jpg?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prior to the closure of her practice in 1\/31\/2020,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #2020a1;\">Dr. D&#8217;Loreyn Walker MD<\/span> served as a board-certified Adult and Child-Adolescent Psychiatrist who had been practicing medicine for more than 15 years and practicing psychiatry for more than 10 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Walker completed her medical education and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill.\u00a0 As part of her medical training, Dr. Walker rotated to Brown University to train with both the inpatient and outpatient child psychiatry teams of the institution.\u00a0 A commitment to children&#8217;s medicine led Dr. Walker to complete a 2-year course of exposure to pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, all in preparation for a career of service as a child and adolescent psychiatrist.\u00a0 Dr. Walker went on to complete both her general (i.e. adult) psychiatry residency and child &amp; adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Indiana University, which included training through the Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center at Riley Children&#8217;s Hospital.\u00a0 To further augment her psychiatric exposure, Dr. Walker completed two rotations through forensic psychiatry which included education and\/or service through Indiana University, the University of Cincinnati, and the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center.\u00a0 As part of this education, Dr. Walker was privileged to work directly with both Dr. George Parker and Dr. Richard Lawlor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Following graduation from her training program, Dr. Walker served in association with two Chicago area group practices.\u00a0 She has also owned and operated her own practice out of the Oak Forest\/Orland Park area.\u00a0 In March 2018, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #2020a1;\">The Walker Clarity Centre<\/span> is Dr. Walker opened her second practice offering.\u00a0 An out-of-network office serving the community of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. This practice closed at the end of January 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Walker continues to believes that people with mental health disorders should first and always be treated as human beings &#8211; not as walking psychiatric diagnoses.\u00a0 With this in mind, she remains committed to encouraging individuals to manage their mental health with streamlined medication regimens that do not involve potentially addictive substances.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information or to arrange a speaking engagement, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #2020a1;\"><a style=\"color: #2020a1; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walkerclaritycentre.com\/index.php\/contact\/\">contact<\/a><\/span> our team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prior to her retirement,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #2020a1;\">Dr. D&#8217;Loreyn Walker<\/span> provided services in the areas of:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Depressive and Dysthymic Disorders<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Panic, Generalized, Social, and Other Anxiety Disorders (without long-term benzodiazepine treatment)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Insomnia<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bipolar and Cyclothymic Disorders<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Medication Tolerance\/Dependence with Gradual Discontinuation that Preserves Client Daily Function<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Medication-Resistant Diagnoses with Genetic Medication Tolerance Screening<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to the closure of her practice in 1\/31\/2020,\u00a0Dr. D&#8217;Loreyn Walker MD served as a board-certified Adult and Child-Adolescent Psychiatrist who had been practicing medicine for more than 15 years and practicing psychiatry for more than 10 years. 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