MARYLOU ERBLAND, PhD
Marylou Erbland, PhD. is the Executive Clinical Director and co-founder of the Center for Success and Independence, a residential and intensive outpatient treatment center for youth 12-17 years of age with emotional, mental health, behavior, and addictive disorders since 1999.
Her love for children manifested itself early in her career. Working first as a special education teacher and then as a school psychologist, she helped children with behavioral and learning differences. She also has extensive experience working in inpatient hospital settings and treating clients with severe psychiatric and neuropsychological disorders.
Today hundreds of juvenile justice involved teens at Youth Village are screened by TCSI clinicians for systematic trauma exposure and diagnosis. A subset of these teens, historically only girls with a history of trauma including child sex trafficking victims, receive 20-plus hours of treatment each week, a treatment program similar to TCSI’s residential program.
In addition to developing the integrated residential dual diagnosis program at TCSI and supervising an ever-increasing clinical staff, she has served as a project director on over 10 federal grant projects. She also maintains a robust private psychotherapy practice.
She also serves as the Clinical Director for TCSI’s GIFT and Boost Programs at Harris County Juvenile Probation Department’s (HCJPD) Youth Village, HCJPD’s residential post-adjudication facility in Seabrook, Texas. These mental health initiatives have made a tremendous difference on the outcomes of juvenile justice involved youth in Harris County.
Dr. Erbland is a graduate of Akron University in Akron, Ohio, where she received her PhD. in psychology, as well as two master’s degrees in special education and School Psychology. Her post-doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology was completed at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
At the time Dr. Erbland and her colleagues opened the Center in 1999, she had 15 years of experience in the fields of mental health, education, and treatment of addictive disorders.