Dr. McCrory has extensive experience providing psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families working with a range of psychological and emotional issues. She provides brief and long-term psychotherapy, parenting, couple and family therapy. In addition to her private practice, she enjoys teaching in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She taught for fifteen years in the graduate program of Counseling Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy at California State University, Northridge. She has conducted trainings, workshops and provides consultation for mental health professionals on a range of subjects related to psychological development.

Valuing social justice, cultural sensitivity, awareness and competence, Dr. McCrory brings these to all aspects of her work. She is Past President of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association (LACPA) and received its 2014 Distinguished Service Award. She serves on the organization’s Diversity and Community Outreach Committees, actively raising awareness regarding the impact of diversity, culture, and the impact of war on mental health, human development and community. As a volunteer psychologist for the non-profit organization The Soldiers Project, she provides free mental health services to service members and their families, as well as community and education and training to mental health professionals about the impact of war. She will be serving as LACPA CARE Program (Colleague Awareness Resources and Education) chair.

Dr. McCrory has a lifelong passion for the arts and interest in the intersection of psychology, creativity, arts and culture which led her to co-create the LACPA Mirrors of the Mind gallery exhibition as a community project. In its third year, this successful exhibition of the art of psychologists and psychotherapists from around the country was held at the nonprofit sanctuary for the arts, Art Share LA. She is co-editor of the book commemorating the 2013 exhibition. The Mirrors of the Mind project received national attention in the June 2014 edition of the APA Monitor on Psychology as one of four programs in the United States in which psychologists use the arts to “heal, educate and strengthen communities.” Dr. McCrory is a member of APA Presidential Arts and Psychology Committee and Co-Chair of Task Group for the community art project constructed during APA 2014 convention, entitled “Uniting Psychology: Express Yourself”, in which thousands of psychologists, students and convention attendees shared their hopes, vision and passion for psychology.