Jenna Ermold, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and the Associate Director of Online Training, Technology, and Telehealth at the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP), Uniformed Services University. In this role, she leads the design and delivery of online and in-person trainings that strengthen behavioral health clinicians’ competence in working with service members and their families.
Dr. Ermold is the lead for CDP’s monthly webinar series, CDP Presents, and co-hosts the Practical for Your Practicepodcast. She regularly presents on various deployment-related behavioral health topics including military culture, and evidence-based treatments for PTSD.
A graduate of the Malcolm Grow (USAF) Medical Center Psychology Residency Program, Dr. Ermold served on active duty as a psychologist in the United States Air Force. She earned her B.A. in psychology and English from Middlebury College and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Vermont.
Her specialties include military psychology, health psychology, behavioral health integration into primary care, post-traumatic stress disorder, and prolonged exposure therapy.
Kristyn Heins, Ph.D., is a Licensed Professional Counselor serving as a Military Behavioral Health Counselor for the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In this role, she supports the CDP’s efforts of training clinicians in evidenced-based practice focused on suicide prevention. Dr. Heins completed her doctoral degree at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi where her dissertation focused on treatment of moral injury. She received a Master’s degree from Western Michigan University, and a Bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan University.
Prior to joining the CDP, Dr. Heins worked at the Department of Veteran Affairs in various roles including primary care mental health, and suicide prevention telehealth. Dr. Heins is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy- Suicide Prevention, and Problem Solving Therapy- Suicide Prevention. She also has worked in a Federally Qualified Health Center and in a non-profit setting. Dr. Heins has extensive experience working with presenting problems including insomnia, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, PTSD, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder. Along with suicide prevention, Dr. Heins has a professional interest in integrated mental health services, employee wellness, and education of future clinicians.
Kathryn E. Monsey, LCSW, LCDC is a Military Behavioral Health Social Worker for the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She assists in the implementation and expansion of the Star Behavioral Health Providers Program (SBHP). SBHP trains civilian behavioral health providers to work with service members, veterans, and their families. The mission is to expand the availability of high-quality behavioral health services, especially for those in the National Guard and Reserve Component.
Kathryn holds over ten years of experience providing clinical services treating PTSD and substance use disorders within civilian, military and veteran populations. She has worked in inpatient, outpatient and residential treatment settings, including clinical research settings at the University of Indiana Bio Behavioral Alcohol Research Laboratory and University of Hawaii MRI/Neurology research program. Kathryn went on to work in the SATP program at the Veterans Administration in Washington State and subsequently as a Behavioral Health Provider for the Army. Kathryn worked as an embedded behavioral health provider at Ft. Hood, 1st Cavalry Division (Infantry) in 2018 as a Substance Use Disorder Clinical Care (SUDCC) provider and subsequently at USAG Wiesbaden (Germany) for 66th MI (Military Intelligence) and USAG Miami Health Clinic, providing co-occurring treatment for PTSD and substance use disorders.
Kathryn received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychological and Brain Sciences from Indiana University in 2011 and her Master of Social Work from University of Southern California, with a specialization on Military and Veteran Populations (MVP) in 2015. Kathryn further went on to specialize in PTSD and Substance Use disorders working in clinical and translational research through her bachelors and masters programs. She later received post graduate training in EMDR and trauma narrative therapies in addition to specialization licensure to treat substance use disorders. Kathryn has focused on addressing the unique needs of service members and veterans using evidence-based approaches, fitness for duty evaluations and harm reduction and abstinence based treatment models.
Allison Hannah, MSW, LCSW is a Military Behavioral Health Social Worker for the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She assists in the implementation and expansion of Star Behavioral Health Providers (SBHP). SBHP trains civilian behavioral health providers to work with service members, veterans, and their families. The mission is to expand the availability of high-quality behavioral health services, especially for those in the reserve components.
Allison is a veteran of the United States Army and United States Army Reserves. During Allison’s time in the military from 2003 through 2016, she served in various occupation specialties as a bridgecrew member, chaplain assistant, and most recently as a Human Resources Officer. While serving in the active duty component, Allison deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 09-11. She also held additional duties during her tenure training service members in suicide prevention and as a victim advocate with the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) program.
Allison received her Bachelor of Social Work from University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN in 2007 and her Master of Social Work from Loyola University Chicago in 2015. Allison is currently pursuing her Doctor of Social Work from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.
Allison’s previous clinical work includes positions in community mental health, the Iowa City Health Care System in the Homeless Veteran Program and with the Defense Health Agency within the Child and Family Behavioral Health Services section at an active-duty Army base. Allison is trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and is a Registered Play Therapist ™ specializing in using evidence-based approaches to address trauma, adjustment and attachment related disorders.
Timothy Rogers, Ph.D., is currently employed by the Henry Jackson Foundation as an Associate Director at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences Center for Deployment Psychology. He is responsible for managing the development, delivery, and evaluation of a range of clinical training and research programs and serves as a subject matter expert/trainer on evidence-based psychotherapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Insomnia.
Dr. Rogers received his Ph.D. in 2009 in Counseling Psychology at the University of Akron. He completed his Clinical Psychology Residency at Wilford Hall Medical Center and served over six years as an active-duty Air Force psychologist and deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Dr. Rogers also served for six years as the Associate Program Director for the USAF Clinical Psychology Internship at Wilford Hall in San Antonio Texas. Research interests include help-seeking behaviors, PTSD and insomnia treatment, dissemination and implementation of evidence based treatments, and training in health service psychology. Dr. Rogers currently serves as an APA accreditation site visitor team chair for psychology internships.
Debra Nofziger, Psy.D., is a Senior Military Behavioral Health Psychologist and Cognitive Processing Therapy Trainer with the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She develops, maintains, and conducts virtual and in-person training related to military deployments, culture, posttraumatic stress, and other psychological and medical conditions Service members and Veterans experience. She also supports research and other CDP programs aimed at enhancing military behavioral science and supporting providers. From 2007 to mid-2020, Dr. Nofziger served as the CDP Military Internship Behavioral Health Psychologist at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, TX. She assisted with managing multiple behavioral health training programs, including the Clinical Psychology Internship Program, Psychology Residency, Social Work Internship Program, and multiple post-doctoral psychology fellowships.
Dr. Nofziger was an active duty Army psychologist with assignments at BAMC and the U.S. Army School of Aviation Medicine. She was also deployed for a year to Iraq as a Brigade Psychologist with the 4th Infantry Division. Her variety of Active Duty assignments included positions as a staff psychologist in medical settings, at a community behavioral health clinic for soldiers in training, and in an aviation school environment where she was the training director for the Army’s Aeromedical Psychology Training Course.
Dr. Nofziger earned her masters and doctorate degrees from Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri. Her interests continue to be providing support to Service members, Veterans and their families through the training of military and civilian medical and behavioral health providers. Her particular interest areas are in the treatment of trauma and moral injury.
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