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.) She then revived her dream of becoming a psychologist. As a result, Dr. Bike earned an M.S. at Loyola and a Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. Her degrees are in Counseling Psychology. That specialty focuses on normal human development: Symptoms arise as a natural response to what we face in life. Healing takes place organically. When the right conditions are present, change happens.

Dr. Denise Bike

Clinical Experience

Since 2007, Dr. Denise Bike has offered therapy for adults in a variety of settings. For instance, Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOPs) at Sheppard Pratt Hospital and Boone Hospital. As well as the Counseling Centers at Mizzou and Ball State. At the Chesapeake ADHD Center, she began treating adults with ADHD. Now she practices full-time at Baltimore Minds. Dr. Bike began specializing in anxiety and early trauma in 2010. Her background in mindfulness, as well as Internal Family Systems, work well for those conditions.

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 still teaches a Wellness course online 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, The Journal of Black Psychology, and Psychotherapy. Her 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.