Karen truesdell biography

Karen Truesdell Riehl's writing achievements are remarkable, given the award-winning author's lifelong battle with dyslexia.
Title, Love and Madness: My Private Years with George C. Scott.
Broke, pregnant and ruling out an abortion, Karen entered a home for unwed mothers.

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No More Pink!: Finding Your New Normal

Dr. Karen Truesdell Bierman is a Licensed Psychologist in Texas. She is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and was awarded her Ph.D. in Clinical & Health Psychology from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 2003. Dr. Karen's graduate research focused on anxiety, depression, and social support. Her doctoral dissertation investigated quality of life (cognitive and emotional) for heart plant transplant patients. She has been providing cognitive-behavioral therapy and conducting psychological evaluations for the past ten years to a variety of patients in medical and community mental health settings in addition to industrial/organizational consultation in the workplace. Dr. Karen completed her Fellowship in Palliative Care at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System and began private practice in May 2005 and is active in the Psychological Community in San Antonio and President of the Bexar County Psychological Association (2006-2007). She works in Private Practice in San Antonio and Bulverde, Texas. She specializes in clinical, he

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Karen Truesdell Riehl's writing achievements are remarkable, given the award-winning author's lifelong battle with dyslexia. She was unable to read until the age of ten. Her published works now include a 2015 San Diego Book Awards winner, Helga: Growing Up in Hitler's Germany. Her other books include a memoir, Love and Madness: My Private Years with George C. Scott, telling of her 30-year hidden liaison with the international film star, six novels, eight plays and a radio comedy series, The Quibbles, available from ArtAge Publications at http://www.seniortheatre.com/product/the-quibbles-radio-shows/. Her children's play, Alice in Cyberland, was an award winner in the National Southwest Writers Contest. Helga was an elementary school librarian, a 1948 German immigrant, when the author met her in 1977. Asked about her experience during the war, Helga quietly revealed she had been a "Jugend," a member of Hitler's child army.Ten-year-old Helga was forced to join the Hitler Youth weekly meetings. Lies and treats were used to build her allegiance to th