2026 EBP Conference: Resilient Practice: Advancing Competence in Challenging Times

Sonya Norman, Ph.D. Related Seminars and Products

Presentation Title: Moral Distress in Our Workforce: What Can We do for Ourselves and our Colleagues

Dr. Sonya Norman is Director of the PTSD Consultation Program through the Executive Branch of the National Center for PTSD and  Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Dr. Norman served on the 2017 VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline committee for PTSD. Dr. Norman’s primary areas of research are in psychotherapies that treat PTSD and common co-occurring disorders and in treating common problems faced by recently deployed Veterans.

Andrew Santanello, Psy.D Related Seminars and Products

Presentation Title: Establishing and Maintaining a Community of Practice (CoP) for Evidence-Based Psychotherapy (Panel Presentation)

Andrew Santanello, Psy.D is a licensed, clinical psychologist in Maryland and Director of Learning and Professional Development at the ACT Academy. He is a Peer Reviewed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Trainer, a National Cognitive Processing Therapy trainer, and has provided expert training and consultation to military and civilian providers for over 20 years.  His professional interests include the dissemination and practice of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy with an increasing focus on mechanisms of change and process-based psychotherapy, psychological resilience, and the intersection of behavioral science and mindfulness-based approaches to alleviating human suffering.

Sarah Hope Lincoln Related Seminars and Products

Presentation Title: When Popularity Isn’t Proof: The Ethical Imperative of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Practice

Sarah Hope Lincoln, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University in the Department of Applied Psychology and a licensed clinical psychologist. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Harvard University and completed in internship at Bellevue Hospital/NYU Langone Medical Center. She completed post-doctoral fellowships at Boston Children’s Hospital and McLean Hospital. Prior to her doctoral degree she worked with the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy as well as the Baltimore VA Medical Center. Dr. Lincoln’s research examines the social factors that contribute to the development of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in children and adolescents. 

Tara Galovski, Ph.D. Related Seminars and Products

Presentation Title: The Evolution of Evidence-Based Practice from the Core Manual through Enhancement, Expansion, and Personalization of Care

Tara Galovski, Ph.D. is the Director of the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine.  Over the last decade, Dr. Galovski has been a national trainer of Cognitive Processing Therapy, has trained over 1000 clinicians in both the VA and community mental health clinics, and has treated or supervised the treatment of 100s of PTSD cases.  She is interested in exploring the effects of exposure to traumatic events and continuing the development of psychological interventions designed to treat PTSD and comorbid psychiatric disorders. She has conducted federally funded clinical trials (NIH, VA, SAMHSA, DoD) within a variety of populations exposed to different types of trauma including combat, sexual trauma, domestic violence, community violence, and motor vehicle accidents. This work has been conducted with civilians, law enforcement, active duty service members, and Veterans and has been published in over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 20+ chapters and 3 books. Recently, Dr. Galovski has developed, and is the Director of, a national network of peer-led support groups for women Veterans (Women Veterans Network: WoVeN).

Gabe Paoletti Related Seminars and Products

Dr. Gabriel Paoletti is the Director of Human Performance Optimization (HPO) Integration and HPRC in support of the Advanced Research for Military Optimization, Readiness, and Rehabilitation (ARMORR) – Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP), a center at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland. He oversees the strategic and operational components of delivering comprehensive health and performance education on Total Force Fitness and Human Performance Optimization to the DoD and national security community.  Over the past 15+ years, Dr. Paoletti has applied the latest human performance research to create and lead over 400 distinct human performance optimization and leadership development programs for audiences throughout the world, ranging from leaders at the Pentagon, Army, Marine, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard service members to Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, CEO’s and government leaders. Under his leadership, his team has been officially selected to develop holistic human performance curricula for half of the U.S. Armed Forces. Dr. Gabriel Paoletti graduated from Saint Joseph’s University with a double major in economics and philosophy, graduating first in his class in both majors. He received his Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and his Doctor of Education in Leadership from Creighton University.