Dr. Tonja H. Krautter is a licensed clinical psychologist as well as a licensed clinical social worker. She received her Doctorate Degree in clinical psychology in June of 2002 from the American School of Professional Psychology. She received her Masters Degree in social work from Columbia University in 1994. Dr. Krautter works with children, adolescents, and adults. However, most of her expertise lies with childhood and adolescent issues. For the past twelve years, she has worked in hospital, residential, and day treatment programs with severely emotionally disturbed individuals focusing on issues such as physical abuse, sexual assault, eating disorders, self-mutilation, suicide/homicide, substance abuse and domestic violence.
Dr. Krautter has been in the role of clinical supervisor, program director, trainer, and workshop leader in a variety of settings. She is currently a private practitioner in Los Gatos where she provides individual, family, and group therapy to her patients. In addition, she is an adjunct clinical faculty member at Stanford School of Medicine in the Psychiatry Department. Dr. Krautter is highly dedicated to the mental health field, serving persons in need and providing them with the highest standard of care. She offers several workshops and training seminars to parents as well as a wide range of community agencies in the bay area. Seminar topics have included colic, eating disorders, rape crisis and trauma, self-injurious behaviors, and therapy with special populations.
From a personal standpoint Dr. Krautter has been happily married for 10 years to her husband, Jason Pearson, whom she met freshman year in college when she was 17 years of age. She has known him half her life. They have two beautiful sons, Tyler, age 4 and Brody, age 2. Dr. Krautter’s first born, Tyler, was horrifically colicky and cried up to 16 hours a day, more days than not, for approximately 6 months. After several futile attempts to find an answer to this problem, Dr. Krautter did what several mothers would not have done. She used her expertise as a clinical psychologist to find solutions and then wrote and published a book about her experiences and findings. This book became available in stores in April of 2006. It is called, When Your Baby Won’t Stop Crying: A Parent’s Guide to Colic (Sourcebooks).
In addition, to her book publication mentioned above, she has published two journal articles in the Journal of Family Therapy and Clinical Case Studies. Her second book written specifically for parents on self-injurious behavior is hoped to launch in 2007. All of her publications were written with the sole purpose to educate, validate, and support families on difficult issues.