Brandy Hellman

Dr. Brandy Hellman is a deployment behavioral health psychologist with the Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.  She is located at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.  She is a veteran of the United States Army and received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She is a is a licensed psychologist with particular expertise and nearly ten years of experience in complex psychological trauma and grief and loss with the associated depression, anxiety, stress, insomnia, relationship distress/difficulty, and substance use issues that can result. She’s worked with crime victims, war refugees, combat veterans, and adults experiencing the effects of childhood incest and other forms of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. She completed her doctoral training at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her pre-doctoral internship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.  Prior to joining The Center for Deployment Psychology, she served as a psychologist for the United States Peace Corps. 

Dr. Hellman completed a one year deployment to Afghanistan with the 254th Medical Detachment (Combat Stress Control).  During her deployment, she was the crisis intervention leader and often times, was the only psychologist responsible for the well-being of several thousand military service members. She reports that her work in Afghanistan was one of the most rewarding experiences of her career and it earned her the Bronze Star Medal.

Dr. Hellman is also recognized as the Senior Trauma Recovery Clinician at Kentlands Psychotherapy in Gaithersburg, MD where she provides individual therapy to children, adolescents and adults.