Libby Parins, Psy.D.
Dr. Libby Parins, Psy.D., is the Chief of Staff at the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Parins has worked at CDP since 2007, serving in many different capacities including as a faculty member on APA-accredited psychology internship programs, and as a project developer and trainer in military and civilian programs. She began her professional career as a Naval Officer where she served in San Diego, California and Bremerton, Washington as a psychologist. Her clinical expertise is military psychology with foci on depression, anxiety, suicide, and trauma. Dr. Parins clinical career has focused on treating active duty Service members as a clinician in military hospitals.
As a CDP faculty member Dr. Parins has traveled widely across the United States, Europe, and Asia providing continuing education to civilian and military behavioral health providers. The courses she teaches include Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD, Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention, ethics, depression, TBI, sleep disorders, substance abuse in military populations, Military Culture and the Deployment Cycle. Currently, she is based in North Carolina.