View our EdD Early Childhood specialization completion requirements
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
- Core courses (50 cr.)
- Capstone (10 cr.)
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
Courses
In the EdD Early Childhood Education specialization, you’ll build skills and progress toward your final capstone project in every course.
Disclaimers: Walden students have up to 8 years to complete their doctoral program unless they petition for an extension.
In general, students are continuously registered in the dissertation/doctoral study course until they complete their capstone project and it is approved. This usually takes longer than the minimum required terms in the dissertation/doctoral study course shell.
To complete a doctoral dissertation, students must obtain the academic approval of several independent evaluators including their committee, the University Research Reviewer, and the Institutional Review Board; pass the Form and Style Review; gain approval at the oral defense stage; and gain final approval by the Chief Academic Officer. Students must also publish their dissertation on ProQuest before their degree is conferred. Learn more about the dissertation process in the Dissertation Guidebook.
For a personalized estimate of the number of your transfer credits that Walden would accept, call an Enrollment Specialist at 844-937-8785.
Courses
PhD completion program courses help you return to doctoral work, match with an advisor, and stay on track to finishing your dissertation.
Disclaimers: Walden students have up to 8 years to complete their doctoral program unless they petition for an extension.
In general, students are continuously registered in the dissertation/doctoral study course until they complete their capstone project and it is approved. This usually takes longer than the minimum required terms in the dissertation/doctoral study course shell.
To complete a doctoral dissertation, students must obtain the academic approval of several independent evaluators including their committee, the University Research Reviewer, and the Institutional Review Board; pass the Form and Style Review; gain approval at the oral defense stage; and gain final approval by the Chief Academic Officer. Students must also publish their dissertation on ProQuest before their degree is conferred. Learn more about the dissertation process in the Dissertation Guidebook.
For a personalized estimate of the number of your transfer credits that Walden would accept, call an Enrollment Specialist at 844-937-8785.
Courses
Develop the skills and confidence you need to tackle complex managerial challenges, contribute new knowledge, or teach at the graduate level.
Courses
Develop the skills and confidence needed for complex managerial challenges and research with Walden’s ACBSP-accredited PhD program.
Discover career opportunities in your area that match your interests.
Dr. Natalie Marr serves as contributing part-time faculty for Walden University, with an emphasis in instructing face-to-face and virtual residencies, while also providing dissertation support. She has taught at the graduate level for 6 years and has mentored several dissertations. Dr. Marr has been offering therapy, clinical supervision, and consultation over the past two decades, and more recently has added personal development coaching and online course creation. She owns her own private practice in Minnesota. Her clinical expertise is in developmental interpersonal traumas, helping her clients trace their present-day difficulties back to their traumatic relationship experiences in childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood. She helps her clients manage how their trauama has negatively impacted their relationships, created a poor sense of self-worth, and resulted in diagnoses such as Depression, Anxiety, trauma disorders, and personality disorders. Dr. Marr has provided both individual and group psychotherapy interventions, using the following theories and techniques: Adaptive Internal Relational Network Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Narrative Exposure Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Based Therapy, Positive/Strength Based Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and the Application of Feminist Theory in clinical practice. She has also had experience with Primary Care Mental Health Integration/Co-Located Health Care, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Dr. Marr contracts as a Clinical Supervisor providing practicum, internship, and post-degree clinical supervision for clinicians pursuing licensure as Licensed Psychologists and Licensed Psychological Counselors. Her vast expertise in a variety of evidence-based approaches is eclipsed only by her intuitive ability to cultivate one’s own curiosity, growth, and wisdom. Dr. Marr provides significant insights that foster an understanding of oneself. When we understand ourselves and what brought us here, it leads to more kindness, more peace, and more compassion for our own and others' stories.
PsyD, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology
MA, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology
BS, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Marr, N. (2011). Addressing Multiple Conditions Through Motivational and Person Centered Approaches. Minnesota Aging and Disability Services
Marr, N. (2011). Basic Skills Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. State Operated Services
Marr, N. (2009). Competency Restoration Program Inservice. Minnesota State Operated Forensic Services
Marr, N. (2021). Learn To Love Your Story - Personal Development Course. Natalie M. Marr, Psy.D., LP
Marr, N. (2017). Medical and Behavioral Integrated Staff Training. Native American Community Clinic
Marr, N. (2012). Minnesota Specialty Health Systems Inservice. Minnesota Specialty Health Systems
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