Dr. Doris Wood is a licensed professional counselor and a licensed marriage and family therapist with a doctoral degree in counseling. Dr. Wood practices from a cognitive-behavioural perspective, simply meaning that the way an individual thinks determines how that person feels and behaves. Additionally, she is certified as a practitioner of Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). She is in private practice at Alabama Counseling and Development.

Dr. Wood counsels with couples, individuals, families, and children. She also works with groups and businesses. Areas of special interest are parenting, self-esteem, marriage and family, change and transition, conflict resolution, adult development and aging, assertiveness training, sexual abuse, negotiation, and mediation.

She is a nationally recognized negotiator, a member of numerous counseling associations, a member of counseling honorary societies and an award-winning Toastmaster.