Tara Galovski, Ph.D.

Dr. Galovski is a licensed clinical psychologist, 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 two decades, 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 multiple federally funded clinical trials (NIH, VA, SAMHSA, DoD) and has published the results of that work in over 100 peer-reviewed papers, 20+ chapters and is currently writing her third book. 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).