Paula Domenici, PhD is a licensed counseling psychologist working as the Head of the Division of Training Programs at the Center for Deployment Psychology at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. In this capacity, she oversees the 1- and 2-week training courses and develops and presents workshops for specific military and civilian audiences on psychology-related topics across the country including Prolonged Exposure Therapy to treat PTSD. From 2006 to 2007, she worked as the Deployment Behavioral Health Psychologist for the CDP at the National Naval Medical Center, where she saw Marines in both the outpatient behavioral health clinic and inpatient casualty care unit. She performed psychological evaluations and provided individual and group treatment for PTSD and other post-deployment concerns. She also led a family group for parents and spouses of wounded warriors. Prior to joining the staff of the CDP, she was an APA Congressional Fellow at the Office of Senator Hillary Clinton, where she covered mental health, aging, and deployment-related veterans' issues in the legislative arena. In the years 2002 to 2005, she worked as a Staff Psychologist and Postdoctoral Fellow at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, providing individual and group therapy to OIF/OEF, Vietnam, and WWII veterans. Before graduating from the doctoral program at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2002, she received an MA in Development Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University in NYC and BA in English & American Literature from Brown University in Providence, RI.

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