Dr. Lise Deguire is a clinical psychologist in private practice.  She is the lone surviving child of gifted, unsettled and iconoclastic parents.  After being severely burned in a fire, she spent most of her childhood in the hospital, undergoing countless surgical procedures. ​

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Dr. Deguire attended Tufts University, graduating in 1985, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.  She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Hahnemann/Widener University in 1990.    For the past fourteen years she has been in solo practice in Pennington, New Jersey.   She is the author of her memoir, Flashback Girl: Lessons on Resilience from a Burn Survivor. She has appeared on television, podcasts, and radio, and has been published in multiple publicatons including Psychology Today, the Trenton Times, Grown & Flown.com, and Medium.com. Dr. Deguire writes a blog about psychological resilience issues and has become a national keynote speaker. She has over 10,000 social media followers on a variety of platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin.

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She is married to Douglas Behan, her happily-ever-after husband, and has two amazing daughters, Julia and Anna Sismour, and one very cute dog. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.