Updated September 16, 2025
their Fellowship Project, and parts of the project may concur to meet other program requirements (e.g., running a group).
Fellows are also required to participate in BHIP Triage Clinic, offering two or more 60- minute evaluation and treatment planning sessions per week, which emphasize coordinating team services, using commitment strategies to engage patients in evidence- based treatment, and connecting patients to various treatment modalities. *Supervision with Dr. Glivings will only be offered in-person. Cultural Competence Training: Fellows will primarily work with Veterans spanning from the Vietnam era to the current OEF/OIF/OND conflicts era. In addition to the wide array of patient ages, Fellows working on this rotation will also see Veterans with diverse racial, ethnic, educational, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Moreover, occasional opportunities to work with LGBTQ patients also arise as well as addictions recovery. Supervisors will strive to expose Fellows to an intersectional approach to diversity consideration, whereby relevant background factors are taken into account during assessment, treatment planning, and intervention phases of therapy. Common issues associated with working in the VA setting, such as how to deal with encountering various forms of prejudice, will also be a focus.
Women’s Mental Health (WMH) & Trauma Emphasis Primary Supervisors: Shana Napier, Ph.D. and Grace Kim, Ph.D. Delegated Supervisor: Catherine Nash, Psy.D.
Founded in January 2005 through a VA Special Needs Grant, the Women's Mental Health Clinic was developed to serve women Veterans by providing gender-specific and sensitive services. The Women’s Mental Health (WMH) Emphasis is unique in that it affords the opportunity for training in a wide array of therapies to treat general mental health conditions, as well as specialized focus in learning treatments for PTSD specifically for women Veterans. Starting in 2025, WMH has been integrated within the Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) and the Addiction, Recovery, and Treatment (ART) program to expand access to care for our Veterans and integrate WMH experts within our treatment teams. The WMH philosophy follows a holistic and evidence-based approach, which influences our conceptualization of patients as well as the types of interventions that we use. The WMH emphasis is currently comprised of licensed staff including three full- time psychologists, Dr. Shana Napier (WMH Champion), Dr. Grace Kim (Associate Director of Predoctoral Training), and Dr. Catherine Nash (Women’s SUD Psychologist). In addition, Dr. Kayla Costello (Part-Time WMH psychologist), Jenny Williams, LCSW (full- time clinician), and Sandra Greenman (full-time women’s peer support specialist). The team also regularly consults with psychiatry, primary care, and other specialty care staff outside the WMH when appropriate in the service of patient-centered care. The WMH emphasis offers a wide variety of evidence-based groups addressing topics such as race and resilience, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, harm reduction, PTSD, perinatal skills, and coping skills. The WMH emphasis also offers gender-specific SUD services and trainees may have the opportunity to co-facilitate the CBT for SUD group if interested within the ART program. The Psychology Postdoctoral
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