Mary Bartlett, PhD
Suicide Prevention & Risk Consultant
A well known international speaker, Dr. Mary Bartlett is a graduate of Auburn University and an alumnus of the University of Maryland-European Division and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She holds a doctorate in counselor education, has more than 16 years of experience as a mental health counselor, and serves as ad hoc faculty at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. She is an authorized trainer for the American Association of Suicidology and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, a board member of the Alabama chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Alabama National Guard Suicide Prevention Task Force, and serves as a member of the Alabama Suicide Prevention and Resource Coalition. Additionally, she is a board member of the ethics committee for the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals.
Dr. Bartlett is trained in the ASIST approach, a two-day intensive, interactive and practice-dominated course designed to help caregivers recognize and review risk, and intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. It is by far the most widely used, acclaimed and researched suicide intervention training workshop in the world.
Dr. Bartlett is passionate in her commitment to reduce the stigma of suicide, educate clients, families, and communities about suicide prevention and intervention, and advocate for those who struggle with and are personally touched by suicide. Understanding that anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychological disorder, Dr. Bartlett brings a knowledge base regarding the correlation between suicide and eating disorders to Magnolia Creek. She hails originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is married to a retired military member who served for twenty-five years active duty.
