Verena Roberts Email & Phone Number

Pocatello, ID, US

Pocatello, Idaho Area

Pocatello, Idaho

Clinical teaching in family medicine through the WWAMI network.

Pocatello, Idaho

Highlands Ranch & Englewood, CO

• Functioning as an integrated primary care/health psychologist and Behavioral Medicine Specialist within primary care/medical clinics providing brief evaluation and treatment services for a wide range of presenting.
• Successfully established behavioral medicine services within a new clinic (Evergreen, CO).
• Clinical services provided include assessment, brief evidence-based treatment geared towards functional restoration, and management of PTSD, stress, anxiety, depression, grief, couples issues, sexual dysfunction.
• Provided treatment planning, referrals and triage for treatment and resources.
• Conducting crisis management & suicide assessments.
• Consulting with physicians and psychiatrists.

Denver, CO

• Successfully established behavioral medicine services in an FQHC clinic
• Functioned as an integrated primary care/health psychologist within an internal medicine clinic.
• Provided brief evaluation and evidence-based treatment services for a wide range of presenting problems and patients of cultural diversity by applying advanced knowledge of health behaviors and interaction of mental.
• Applied crisis management to stabilize patients and restore basic functioning with the goal of connecting patients with appropriate intensive services as needed.
• Developed integrated treatment approaches for various health behaviors (e.g., diabetes, chronic pain) as part of the Patient-Centered Medical Home initiative within the FQHC.
• Clinical Instructor at the University of Colorado, Department of Medicine.

Aurora, CO

Eastside Family Health Center – Internal MedicineTraining of behavioral approaches for behavioral health and mental illnessRecipients: Medical residents and staff, psychology interns and students

Denver, CO & Littleton, CO

• Received highly specialized training in integrated behavioral healthcare services, behavioral medicine, and the application of the bio-psycho-social approach within family medicine residencies.
• Provided brief evaluation and treatment services for a wide range of presenting problems and patients of all age ranges and cultural diversity within a family medicine setting.
• Advanced existing integrated behavioral medicine services by developing patient-specific and care team-based approaches.
• Clinical teaching and coaching of physicians, medical residents, and staff.

Littleton, CO & Denver, CO

Hands-on teaching and modeling of behavioral approaches for medical and mental illnessesRecipients: Medical residents and staff

Denver, CO

• Major rotations: Geriatrics, Neuropsychology, General Adult, and Male Offenders.
• Minor Rotations: Child & Adolescent Residential Services, Short-term treatment.
• Provided comprehensive psychological, neuropsychological, risk, and crisis assessments and brief individual, family, and group therapy (e.g., social skills, relaxation/stress management, behavioral activation).
• Conducted multi-disciplinary consultations around primary and co-morbid diagnoses.
• Experience with psychotic and personality disorders, dementia and traumatic brain injuries.

Pocatello, ID

• Provided brief assessments and empirically-supported clinical services to patients of all ages.Conducted psychological evaluations, interpreted test findings, wrote integrated testing reports, attended court hearings.
• Specialized in addressing depression, dementia, grief, and aging issues with the elderly. Applied a variety of case conceptualizations and treatment approaches (biopsychosocial model, cognitive-behavioral.
• Conducted brief ADHD/learning disability assessments and pediatric therapy services.
• Developed groups for patients with obesity related to the Patient-Centered Medical Home initiative.

Pocatello, ID

• Conducted brief assessments and treatment groups with severely and persistently mentally ill patients.

Pocatello, ID

• Provided comprehensive assessments, motivational interviewing for addictive disorders; relapse prevention
• Assessment and treatment of sexual dysfunctions using the biopsychosocial model.
• Implemented empirically-supported treatments for a variety of anxiety disorders as well as trauma.

Pocatello, ID

• Provided child/family services: Behavioral therapy, cognitive, ADHD, and LD assessments.

Idaho Falls, ID

• Conducted intakes, crisis interventions, brief therapy, group therapy, and comprehensive assessments.

Blackfoot, ID

• Conducted intakes and group therapy and provided forensic and comprehensive assessments.

Pocatello, ID

• Provided child/family services: Behavioral therapy, discrete trial training, cognitive, ADHD, and LD assessments.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Clinical Psychology

Activities and Societies: Tenure Committee Member ISU Hiring Committee Member Social Committee for Psychological Graduate Student.

Master'S Degree, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Clinical ResearchAPA accredited Thesis: Using the Startle Eye-Blink Paradigm to Validate Self-Report Measures of.

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Graduated with High Honors