The Emory Healthcare Veterans Program (EHVP) provides advanced clinical training to prepare fellows to assume a variety of roles as professional psychologists, with in-depth training in serving the mental health needs of our nation's military and veteran population. Fellows obtain outstanding training in the practice of clinical psychology under the direction of Drs. Barbara O. Rothbaum and Sheila A. M. Rauch. EHVP provides a two-week intensive outpatient treatment program (IOP) for post-9/11 active-duty military service members and veterans struggling with conditions including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, co-occurring substance use disorders (SUD), military sexual trauma (MST), and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Fellows practice within an interdisciplinary team, train within a scientist-practitioner framework, contribute to the leading edge of clinical care, and are valuable members of our treatment team. Fellows receive cutting-edge clinical training in massed evidence-based treatments including Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy and Unified Protocol (UP), as well as evidence-based intake assessments including the CAPS-5-R and DIAMOND. Fellows receive ample supervision and consultation given our team approach to patient care, including individual and group supervision, as well as formal trainee didactics.
Additional clinical training opportunities include massed Unified Protocol group therapy; massed In-Vivo group therapy; individual and group family services based on the FOCUS model; individual and group wellness interventions; and individual SUD interventions (e.g., relapse prevention, COPE).
The one and two-year clinical fellowships primarily focus on training in evidence-based assessment and treatment; however, the clinical fellowship allows for research engagement based on fellow interests. The two-year dual fellowship is structured with a dual focus on advanced clinical training and advanced clinical research. These dual fellows engage in half-time clinical work and half-time clinical research.
All fellows, regardless of track, have access to rich archival data and ongoing research projects led by our faculty psychologists. Research interests among EHVP faculty include, but are not limited to: PTSD, anxiety, mental health disparities and access to care, psychotherapy outcomes, virtual reality-based exposure therapies (VRET), psychedelics and adjunctive pharmacological therapies (e.g., MDMA, THC, psilocybin), neurobiological predictors/outcomes of treatment, and early intervention/prevention of PTSD. Participation in research provides opportunities to gain a breadth of experience and to collaborate with colleagues across the Emory community and nationwide.
For more information, visit the website: https://www.emoryhealthcare.org/centers-programs/veterans-program/training
Contact: Dr. Katie Lanier, Director of Training, at [email protected]
(This page was last updated on 1/16/2026)