Elizabeth Dale Gilley

Elizabeth Dale Gilley earned a corporate paralegal degree in 1979, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, from Wake Forest University in 1983.  She earned a Masters in General Psychology in 2017 and a Post Masters Certificate with a specialty in addictions, in 2019, from NorthCentral University. She is currently  PhD candidate in Psychology at National University.  Her research focus in on screening  for genetic and  neurobiological biomarkers of mental disorder.

She created Reward Deficiency Syndrome Psychoeducation therapy, the RDS treatment plan model, RDS Solution Focused Brief Intervention therapy, and the RDS Severity of Symptom scale, to facilitate integrating precision genomic medicine into the traditional treatment industry. She has published in peer review consistently since 2017. She is a frequent keynote and/or scientific committee member for global conferences.

In 1995, she incorporated the Elle Foundation,  a private nonprofit  to help stop the cycle of addiction. She recently opened two divisions: Elle Research and Elle Resource.