About Denise Bike
Dr. Denise Bike (she, her) began her career in education. She worked as a certified elementary educator. Then she wrote textbooks and testing materials. (Harcourt-Brace, McGraw-Hill, the Princeton Review.) In 2005, she revived her dream of becoming a psychologist. To that end, she earned an M.S. at Loyola in 2008 and a Ph.D. at the University of Missouri in 2013. Dr. Bike became licensed as a psychologist in 2015 and has worked full time in that role since then.

Dr. Bike has enjoyed all the roles her training in psychology has made possible. Teaching psychology at the university level (at Loyola University Maryland, Notre Dame of Maryland, and the University of Missouri). Conducting research and publishing the results (see below). Providing clinical supervision to counseling trainees (Ball State University and University of Missouri). Engaging in peer consultation in IFS, DBR, and EMDR consult groups. Conducting psychological, psycho-educational, and ADHD assessments (Chesapeake ADHD Center and Baltimore Minds). Her deepest passion has been offering individual mental health treatment for adults with ADHD, anxiety, and early trauma, which she has done at Baltimore Minds for over a decade.

Dr. Denise Bike

Clinical Experience

Since 2007, Dr. Denise Bike has served others in a variety of settings. For instance, as a clinical program coordinator and researcher at Healthy for Life (2008-2012). That's the University of Missouri's employee wellness program. While there, she co-developed and led a health-behaviors self-management program. (Read the study here.) While there, she played a similar role for Dr. Lynn Rossy's MBSR and Eat for Life programs.  
Dr. Bike has also served on clinical treatment teams at Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOPs) at Sheppard Pratt Hospital and Boone Hospital. She's provided individual and group therapy as well as clinical supervision at the University of Missouri and Ball State. 

Dr. Bike began specializing in anxiety and early trauma in 2010 and in neurodiversity in 2015 as an independently licensed psychologist, when she opened Baltimore Minds. From 2010-2019 she conducted psycho-educational and psychological evaluations as well as ADHD assessments for children, adolescents, college students, and adults. Dr. Bike applies her background in mindfulness, self-management as well as Levels 1-3 training in Somatic Experiencing (SE), Deep Brain Re-orienting (DBR), and Internal Family Systems (IFS) and EMDR to serve her patients' needs.

Academic Work

From 2013-2015, Dr. Bike was on the faculty in Loyola Maryland's Psychology Department. She taught counseling skills, assessment, career counseling, and diversity courses. From 2015-2019, Dr. Denise Bike taught graduate diversity courses online at Mizzou. She continues to teach a Wellness Management course online each summer in the graduate educational leadership program at the University of Missouri.

Service

Dr. Bike joined the American Psychological Association in 2005. And, from 2017-2019, she served on the Board of the Maryland Psychological Association. Dr. Bike has scholarly works published in peer-reviewed journals. For instance The Journal of Clinical Psychology, Health Education Research, The Journal of Black Psychology, and Psychotherapy. Her co-authored chapters appear in The APA Handbook and The SAGE Handbook of Multicultural Counseling.

Mindfulness

Dr. Bike is a devoted mindfulness practitioner. She began meditating in 2007 and is trained in Yoga Nidra. That's a form of NSDR. Dr. Bike believes in practicing what she teaches. So, she meditates daily and attends yearly silent retreats. Silence and space inside make it possible to offer silence and space in session.

Dr. Bike has led mindfulness at the University of Missouri Law School, Boone County Hospital, and Ball State’s Counseling Center. She’s created a mindfulness course for adults with ADHD. She was also the founding member of an online group for the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC (IMCW) from 2015-2019.