Dr. Wellborn is a clinical psychologist who specializes in individual, family, and group psychotherapy with children and adolescents addressing family and peer conflict, oppositional or risk taking behavior, attention disorders, parenting/discipline problems, academic motivation and school failure, alcohol and other drug issues, depression, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorders. He grew up in northwest Louisiana. He graduated from Louisiana State University in Shreveport in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology. He earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) in 1992. Following his doctorate, Dr. Wellborn completed a 2 year post-doctoral fellowship in developmental psychopathology (i.e., the development of psychological problems in children and adolescents) at Vanderbilt University in 1994. He has been a consultant to school districts developing system-wide programs to address motivation and academic engagement in at-risk youth in both New York and Tennessee. Dr. Wellborn has served as a clinical director for outpatient psychotherapy services in two local agencies. He has appeared on local talk shows, in the print media and on the radio as an expert in child development and parenting as well as having written a monthly parenting advice column for a local parent magazine. He was a long-time, weekly columnist on parenting teens for Brentwoodhomepage.com. Dr. Wellborn has given workshops to parents, teachers and school counselors on adolescent mental health issues and intervention strategies. He is an invited speaker to many local groups and agencies on parenting and teenage issues.
Dr. Wellborn is married and has two children. He works for the Children’s Hospital Colorado’s Pediatric Mental Health Institute in Denver, Colorado.