Dr. Tabitha A. Gressard Psy.D.

Dr. Tabitha Gressard is a psychologist practicing in Colorado. She is a member of the PSYPACT agreement allowing her to conduct vitual care to anyone who resides in a participating state within that agreement. Dr. Gressard specializes in the treatment of mental health problems, and helps people to cope with their mental illnesses. As a psychologist, Dr. Gressard evaluates and treats patients through a variety of methods, most typically being psychotherapy or talk therapy. Patients usually visit Dr. Gressard because they have been experiencing depression, anxiety, stress or anger for a significant period of time and are seeking help. Psychologists may perform a variety of exams and assessments to diagnose a mental condition.

Post-Doctoral Clinical Psychology Residency: During residency, Dr. Gressard served as the Brigade Psychologist for 25th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) which consisted of approximately 4,000 Service Members (SMs); created, organized and implemented a behavioral health clinic within the Aviation Medicine Clinic to include initiation of monthly collaboration meetings between treatment team members and Command teams regarding high risk SMs; conducted and coordinated treatment, intervention, case management, and assessments for the entire unit; headed a team of five post-doctoral clinical psychology residents; served as primary behavioral health consultant for the 25th CAB Command group; completed psychological evaluations, Command Directed Evaluations (CDEs), chapter separation evaluations, recommended and wrote narrative summaries (NARSUMs) for initiation of Medical Evaluation Boards; personally tracked every SM who required psychiatric hospitalization including checking on and tracking them while hopitalized, follow-up care and military disposition; actively participated in military training, social functions and physical training with the unit in order to build rapport and relationships; acted as a liaison between Schofield Barracks’ civilian-manned behavioral health clinic and unit; participated in weekly Command and Staff meetings; numerous presentations on a wide range of psychological and military specific topics to aviators, Active Duty SMs, Command, and civilian counterparts; served an average of four days per month as the On-Call Resident at Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) which included seeing numerous walk-in patients for CDEs, safety-checks, chapter separations, emergency evaluations, in-and-out processing, and frequent consultation with Commanders; approximately 4 hours of direct clinical supervision of behavioral health technicians during each on call day; participated in one hour per week of didactics; taught didactics for psychological technicians on a variety of clinical and military topics; participated in at least one hour of individual and two hours of weekly supervision through TAMC’s Department of Psychology.

Internship: Dr. Gressard worked with Active Duty military, family members, and dependents with a wide range of psychological, emotional, and complex medical issues; Worked in various clinics with many different supervisors; Individual and group counseling for SMs and their dependents; Psychodiagnostic and Neuropsychological testing; Worked with patients from 16 to 79 years of age for brief and long-term psychotherapy; Gained substantial experience with consultation, collaboration, ethics, and the specifics of being an Army Psychologist; Completion of Adult Psychology rotation which included a wide range of assessment and intervention skills including administration, scoring, and interpretation of 6 complete psychology assessment batteries, weekly individual and couple’s psychotherapy, and rotational program development tasks; Completion of Neuropsychology rotation which required a wide range of assessment tests and measures, scoring, and interpretation of 6 complete neuropsychological assessment batteries to include feedback sessions, weekly didactics, group supervision, individual supervision, and program development; Completion of a Behavioral Health and Pain rotation which required psychoeducation of patients regarding complex medical and pain conditions, interventional biofeedback, and co-facilitation of psychotherapy groups; Completion of two Primary Care rotations serving as a consult liaison and therapist for patients of the medical treatment team in Family Medicine Clinic and working with comprehensive treatment team at the Schofield Barracks Wounded Warrior Battalion; Participation in monthly ER shifts conducting intake assessments and recommendations for in-patient admission; Participation in an average of 5 hours of individual supervision and 1 hour of group supervision per week; Monthly involvement and participation in visiting professional and specialized treatment approach training.