About our practice...
Family Psychiatry & Psychology Associates (FPPA) specializes in comprehensive diagnostic evaluations, medication management, psychological testing, educational evaluations, parenting skills enhancement, individual and couples therapies and school liaison services.
FPPA is committed to bringing talented, extraordinarily trained mental health professionals with diverse backgrounds and experiences into our practice. Within our offices we have the convenience of frequent and intensive collaboration to provide superior, comprehensive services to our patients. With patient permission, we also maintain close relationships with local pediatricians, family physicians, other medical specialists, schools, clergy and other mental health professionals, and enjoy the interdisciplinary discussions that produce a truly individualized plan for change for each of our clients.
Each of our clinicians is specialized in treating children, adolescents and/or adults. Additionally, each doctor has his/her own subspecialty areas of expertise. Overlapping areas of expertise allow for second opinions and comprehensive treatment.
Meet our clinicians
Seth E. Tabb, M.D. is the Founder and Medical Director of Family Psychiatry & Psychology Associates, P.A. (FPPA). In addition to his functions as a Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist, Dr. Tabb has embedded himself in the community in multiple professional roles. Recently, for five years, Dr. Tabb sat on the Board of Directors of Wake County Human and Environmental Services and is a past Chairman of the Wake County Human Services Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Continuum of Care Committee where he had been a member for over seven years. Additionally, Dr. Tabb was a member of the Child Fatality and Child Protection Task Force and has worked closely with County Commissioners on committees overseeing the successful development of a county psychiatric hospital and out-patient continuum of mental health care. He has served on the Board of Directors and was a Founding Member of the Miracle League of the Triangle, a baseball program for children with disabilities who would otherwise be precluded from this wonderful sport. As well, Dr. Tabb has served as Adjunct Faculty to the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill beginning in 1996 teaching medical students, residents, child psychiatry fellows as well as psychology graduate students. From 1995 to 1996, Dr. Tabb was an attending physician at Holly Hill Hospital and served as Medical Director of a separate facility, American Day Treatment Partial Hospitalization Program, from 1996 to 1997. Today, Dr. Tabb continues to see patients in his office at FPPA and participate in numerous community activities where he is a frequent invited keynote speaker. read more...
Dr. Tabb completed his Medical Doctorate from the University of Florida where he won the Alpha-Omega-Alpha Walt Oppelt Memorial Award for excellence in Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He completed his General Psychiatry Residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was the APA/Burroughs Welcome Fellow in 1992. He completed his Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA-NPI), where Dr. Tabb was Chief Fellow from 1994 to 1995 and won the prestigious Gertrude Rogers Greenblatt Award. While in Los Angeles, Dr. Tabb presented a Grand Rounds at the UCLA-NPI and was a covering physician at the West Los Angeles Methadone Treatment Program and at the Health Care Children’s Campus Residential Treatment Program in Van Nuys, California.
Dr. Tabb has published in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Jefferson Journal and has been on the Editorial Committee of Southern California Psychiatrist and was a past Editor of the newsletter of the Resident Physician Section of the American Medical Association (1994). Dr. Tabb enjoys a history of essays and public commentary on a range of mental health topics and is a frequent contributor to his local newspaper editorial pages. Additionally, Dr. Tabb has been a featured lecturer to colleagues and the community in such organizations and agencies as The Autism Society of North Carolina and the Wake County Chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (N.A.M.I.) throughout his career with over 21 years of experience. show less
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Lisa G. Hayutin, Ph.D. has a strong background in applying cognitive-behavioral concepts to a broad range of emotional, behavioral and developmental difficulties across the life span. She believes that a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the onset and development of any problem will lead naturally to a plan for improvement. She also believes that collaboration with family members, schools, and other professionals is often critical to providing optimal care and is committed to taking this extra step, when indicated.
Dr. Hayutin received her Bachelor's of Science from Cornell University and her Master's and Doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Georgia in Athens where she provided assessment and therapy to address a variety of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral problems in children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Hayutin developed specialized skills in pediatric psychology through training at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and UNC Children's Hospital, where she evaluated and treated the psychological and emotional needs of children with a wide range of injuries and illnesses. She has a strong training background working with individuals on the autism spectrum, serving has a Post-Doctoral Fellow (2006-2007) and later as a Consulting Psychologist at Division TEACCH at the University of North Carolina (2007-2009). Currently, Dr. Hayutin sees child, adolescent, and adult patients at FPPA for a variety of assessment and treatment needs.
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Sheryll A. Daniel, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years' experience in private practice in the Triangle. She works primarily with adults and older adolescents. She believes that it is important for a clinician to have a deep and broad repertoire of therapeutic approaches, in order to find the techniques which will be most effective in helping an individual, couple or family make the changes they desire. Accordingly, she has studied, draws from and integrates mind-body, insight-oriented, cognitive-behavioral, family systems, and solution-focused theories and techniques in her work. She is a systems thinker, and is attentive to the dynamics of relationships whether working with a family, couple or individual.
Dr. Daniel works with individuals and families with a range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, stress management, problems at work or school, relationship issues, problems in intimacy, and difficulties with sexuality. She has a specialty interest in health psychology, and works extensively with integrative approaches to pain management and to attaining optimal adaptation to injury or illness. She utilizes knowledge from the exciting and rapidly developing field of psychoneuroimmunology to make use of the mind-body connection to potentiate healing. She also has a specialty interest in couples' therapy, and is committed to helping couples find their way to deeper understanding, trust, intimacy and joy. She enjoys work in the area of performance psychology. This work includes teaching athletes, dancers, broadcast journalists, musicians, or others who must perform at their best at a given instant the mental skills that will allow them to do so, as well as helping them explore and overcome issues of performance anxiety. read more...
Dr. Daniel has particular expertise in clinical hypnosis. She is a Fellow, Approved Consultant, and Past President of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, as well as a Past President of the North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and has held numerous other offices in these organizations. Presently she serves her profession nationally as a member of the Board of Trustees of the ASCH Education and Research Foundation, and as an Advisory Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. She regularly presents national workshops in clinical hypnosis for audiences of psychologists, physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health care and mental health professionals. These include presentations on psychoneuroimmunology and integrative mind-body approaches to healing; couples' therapy; and general education in clinical hypnosis. Additionally, she provides consultation services for colleagues, and consultation leading to certification in clinical hypnosis.
Dr. Daniel believes that patients are often best served through a collaborative approach. When she is working with an individual with a health concern, this means that she will consult with the other members of the patient's treatment team, in order that the whole person is best understood and treated. When working with couples' and family issues, this may mean consultation with the professionals involved with each spouse individually or with other family members, so that the systems issues as well as each individual's dynamics and goals can be understood and addressed. Her deep belief in collaboration and systems thinking was one important reason for her decision to join FPPA.
Dr. Daniel obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Williams College, with majors in physics and psychology. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi (the national science honor society), and graduated with Highest Honors in Psychology. She obtained her Master's and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Psychology from Duke University, completing the program in clinical psychology with a graduate minor in developmental psychology. At Duke, she was a James B. Duke Fellow.
Dr. Daniel has been in private practice since 1987. Her practicum, predoctoral, and internship experience included training over five years at John Umstead Hospital in Butner, NC, where she worked on various units serving children, adolescents and adults. She also worked for one year at Family Counseling Service in Durham, NC. show less
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Amanda S. Dorn, M.D. is the most recent addition to Family Psychiatry & Psychology Associates. Dr. Dorn has clinical expertise in evaluating the entire range of psychiatrically ill patients and in psychiatric treatment using the fundamental modalities of therapy, including pharmacology (medications), psychotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and multi-specialty treatment team collaborative approaches. She spent an entire year of her training exclusively specializing in mood disorders (depression, bipolar disorder, etc.), eating disorders, schizophrenia, substance abuse and dependence, neuropsychiatric illnesses, geropsychiatric illnesses and chronic pain.
Prior to coming to FPPA in the summer of 2011, Dr. Dorn was on faculty for two years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Psychiatry. As an Assistant Professor in the UNC Center for Women's Mood Disorders, she established University Mental Health Specialists at Rex, the Department's private practice located in Raleigh. She also served the women of the Triangle as one of the area's few peri-natal psychiatrists. She supervised resident psychiatrists and medical students in the Residents' Women's Mood Disorders Clinic at UNC, teaching future clinicians how to treat hormonally-related mood and anxiety disorders. read more...
Dr. Dorn completed her residency in General Psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. For the past twenty years, Johns Hopkins has been named by U.S. News & World Report America's #1 Hospital. The Psychiatry Department has long been ranked within the top three in the country.
Dr. Dorn completed an advanced elective in women's mood disorders, working with world-renown perinatal psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Payne, co-director of The Johns Hopkins Women's Mood Disorders Center. Dr. Dorn evaluated and treated women suffering from mood disorders, with a special emphasis on hormonally-triggered mood disorders, in both clinical research and consultation settings. She completed an advanced elective in sexual behaviors, working in The Johns Hopkins Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit, evaluating and treating individuals and couples with intimate relationship problems and psychosexual disorders. Dr. Dorn completed an advanced elective in obsessive compulsive disorder, assisting in the evaluation and treatment of outpatients with OCD.
Dr. Dorn obtained her Medical Doctorate from The University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, Arizona. During her medical training, she was elected to serve on the College of Medicine's Admissions Committee for two consecutive years. She dedicated herself to psychiatry and served as a Medical Student Support Group Co-Facilitator. She attended the Betty Ford Summer Institute for Medical Students at The Betty Ford Center at Eisenhower in Rancho Mirage, California and learned about addiction psychiatry.
Prior to medical school, Dr. Dorn received her Bachelor's of Science Degree in Biology from Emory University. During her undergraduate career, she conducted independent research at The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, working toward the development of a potential malaria vaccine. show less
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