Our Providers | Allison Bicksler, PsyD, ABPP

Allison Bicksler, PsyD, ABPP

Board Certified Clinical Health Psychologist

Dr. Allison Bicksler is a Diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Health Psychology and the Chair of Clinical Health Psychology at Orange County Health Psychologists in Irvine, California. At OCHP, Dr. Bicksler leverages relationships between patients, providers, and institutions to find innovative solutions to complex mental health and medical problems. Despite groundbreaking developments in science and technology, there is much that remains unknown about our minds and bodies. 

Dr. Bicksler focuses on the whole person in context rather than the condition in isolation. She believes treatment must be meaningful to patients and grounded in scientific evidence.  An engaged and invested clinician, Dr. Bicksler challenges her patients to grow and supports them with kindness and humor. Dr. Bicksler provides assessment/evaluation and psychotherapy for older adolescents, adults, and seniors.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Bicksler presents at conferences and provides educational seminars for both professionals and laypersons. These include local, state, and national organizations, hospitals, nonprofits, and psychologist, physician, and allied professional groups. Multidisciplinary consultation and postdoctoral supervision are valued parts of her work.

Education & Experience

Dr. Bicksler is the Associate Chair of the Clinical Health Services Council (CHSC) for APA’s Society for Health Psychology (Division 38) and is on the Editorial Board for the Health Psychologist. She served on the Board of the American Association of Pain Psychology (AAPP) from 2023 to 2026. Dr. Bicksler was on Medical Staff at Providence St. Jude Medical Center from 2015-2024 where she treated patients in the interdisciplinary Chronic Pain Program. She sat on the Pain Steering, Physician Well-Being, and Behavioral Health Committees and led initiatives to expand health psychological services to the outpatient Pain Management and Women’s Health centers. In 2019, Dr. Bicksler established Providence St. Jude Medical Center’s Psychology Practicum Program. As Training Director, she prepared students to meet health psychology competencies and pursue health psychology-focused internships.

Dr. Bicksler earned her doctoral degree (PsyD) from the American School of Professional Psychology. She completed a predoctoral internship at the University of California, Riverside, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in health and neuropsychology at Fullerton Neuropsychological Services and St. Jude Medical Center.