Faith L. Cohen, Ph.D.
Education
Tulane University Department of Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Ph.D. Pedicatric Clinical Psychology August 1996.
APA Approved Predoctoral Internship, Franciscan Children’s Hospital and Rehab Center, Boston, MA. August 1996.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Tel Aviv University, Israel.
B.A. in Psychology, May 1989.
Experience
Executive Coaching. Boulder CO. An executive coach to startup CEOs and their executive teams, heads leadership development programs for multiple organizations. Techstars, Boulder Coach/Mentor; Square One System Designs, Jackson, WY; LogRhythm, Boulder, CO. Partial list. 1990-1998, 2015-presnt.
Licensed Psychologist Private Practice. Boulder, CO. Over 30,000 hours of face-to-face sessions; consultation to community, legal and medical professionals; adult/adolescent/child psychological evaluations. Provides seminars to community agencies/organizations on topics ranging from neuroplasticity, neuropsychological components of diagnosis/treatment of attachment, trauma, human development and more. 1999 to present.
Consultant. Linkage Inc., Boston, MA. Collaborated on the development and validation of a competency-based computer behavior simulation. 1996.
Instructor/Facilitator
-Voyageur Outward Bound School. Ely, MN; Red Lodge, MT; & Dillon, MT. Instructed therapeutic adventure-based wilderness courses for high risk adolescents and adults. Utilized group assessment and simulation techniques and cognitive-behavior treatment techniques. Provided parent and student post-course feedback. Summers 1990-92, 94-95.
- Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center. Boston, MA. Instructed experiential based adult professional development courses and special program courses for teams and corporate executives. Utilized group assessment and simulation techniques. Contract basis. 1995-1996.
- West Pines Training Center. Wheat Ridge, CO. Facilitated professional development courses at the center’s ropes course to community businesses /organizations and youth programs. Contract basis. 1996-98.
Licensed Psychologist Mental Health Center of Boulder County, CO.
- Psychological Assessment Clinic. Conduct psychological evaluations from early childhood to adult, interpret and discuss findings with client, parents and relevant community members. Conducted expert witness testimony. Part-time 1999-20013.
- Boulder Elementary Day Treatment Program. Worked as an on-site therapist in the day treatment program housed at Douglas Elementary School, Boulder, CO. Provided individual and family therapy to children with significant mental illness and their families. Provided intensive supervision to intern and post-doctoral students. Gave in-service seminars to treatment staff. Conducted consultation with psychiatrists, teachers, parents and community agencies. Part time 2001 to 2002.
- School Based Services Team. Worked as an on-sight therapist in 2 schools. Provided individual and family therapy to high needs children and their families. Facilitated group simulation techniques in group therapy and for staff training development. Provided in-service seminars to school staff. Conducted intensive supervision to intern students. Provided consultation with psychiatrists, teachers, administrators, parents and community agencies, as well as with school staff regarding work/organizational issues. Part time 1998 to 2001.
- Community Infant Program. Worked as a therapist utilizing in-depth behavior assessment of infant-caregiver dyads with videotape to conduct home-based prevention and psychotherapeutic treatment of infants and their families at risk for abuse/neglect or maladjusted attachment relationships. Provided individual therapy to adult care givers. Provided consultation to nurses and pediatricians. Part time 1998 to 99.
Certified School Psychologist. Weld County School District RE-4, Windsor, CO. (Preschool-8th grade). Conducted consultation with teachers, administrators, parents, community agencies and professionals. Provided psychological evaluations to children, as well as individual and group therapy to children and families. Facilitated drug/alcohol prevention groups to adolescents. Trained teachers in group assessment and facilitation process in order to co-facilitate student support groups. Member of the crisis response team and provided crisis response services to teachers, children and their families. 1996-98.
Pre-doctoral Psychology Intern. Franciscan Children's Hospital & Rehabilitation Center, Boston, MA. An APA - approved pre-doctoral internship. Received neuropsychological training and clinical experience in a hospital setting delivering inpatient and outpatient (individual and group) therapy, assessment services, as well as consultation to hospital staff, parents, community agencies and schools. 1995-96.
Developmental Specialist/Interventionist. The Collaborative Approach to Nurturing Program, Children's Hospital, New Orleans, LA. Provided developmental assessments and interventions for cocaine exposed infants and their dependent mothers. Conducted parenting groups, prenatal counseling groups for pregnant women, dyadic play interventions, collected and synthesized data as well as presented current research findings. 1993-94.
Teaching and Training Experience
Courses/Lectures/Seminars Taught (continuing education levels to graduate levels)
- Feelings and Fusions: Secure Set Inc, June 2017
- Blissful Bendy Brains: Brain Crawl, Boulder Startup Week, Spring 2017
- The Art of Playfulness in Trauma Release Techniques: October 2016
- Multi Weekend Workshops in Leadership Development: Square One System Designs, Aug 2015-Dec 2016
- Neuropsychology of Trauma in the Developing Brain: Panel Speaker, Grillo, 2014
- Diagnosis and Treatment Issues with Individuals with ADHD: Seminar, spring 2000.
- Understanding Behavior Problems in Early Childhood: Seminar, Spring, 2000.
- Infant Emotional Development: Seminar, winter 1999.
- Differential Diagnosis of ADHD and PTSD: Seminar, Spring1999.
- Adolescent Group Assessment and Intervention: fall and spring 1997-98.
- Rorschach and the Exner Scoring System: Spring1993.
- Outward Bound Instructor Training, DSMIV Diagnoses and Common Psychotropic Medications for Adolescents with Significant Psychopathology: Summers1991-1996.
Research Presentations
-Blackwell, P., & Cohen, F., (1994, April). Cocaine Exposed infants and their dependent mothers. Workshop presentation at the Pediatric Psychology Gulfcoast Regional Conference. New Orleans, LA.
-Cohen, F., & Blackwell, P. (1994). The collaborative approach to nurturing program: Cocaine exposed infants and their dependent mothers. In service seminar for the nurses on the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Children's Hospital, New Orleans, LA.
Teaching Assistant/Lecturer: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. Taught the following courses:
Psychology of Personality. 1994.
Testing and Measurement. 1993.
Personality Assessment (Rorschach/Exner Scoring System). 1992.
Experimental Design and Quantitative Analysis. 1992.
Research Methods in Child Psychology. 1991.
Assessment Experience
Personality-Behavior Assessment:
Achenbauch Child Behavior Checklist (CBLC)
Behavioral Assessment Techniques
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Children's Apperception Test (CAT)
Conner's Teacher/Parent Rating Scales (CTRS, CPRS)
Incomplete Sentences
Kinetic Drawings
Meyers-Briggs Type Inventory
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Play Interview
Personality Inventory for Children (PIC)
Roberts Apperception Test (RAT)
Rorschach (Exner Scoring)
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales
Parenting Stress Index (PSI)
Children's Depression Inventory (CDI)
Intellectual Assessment:
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale- Third Addition (WAIS-III)
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children III (WISC-III)
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Revised (WPPSI-R)
Stanford-Binet Fourth Edition (SB-4)
Leiter International Performance Scales
Neuropsychological Assessment:
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test
Color Span (visual and auditory memory)
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test
Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI)
Judgment Line Orientation
Rey Auditory Verbal Test
Sentence Repetition (auditory memory)
Wide Range Achievement for Memory and Learning (WRAML)
Research
Research Assistant.
-NIH grant Topic: Cognitive patterns in diabetic children. Principle Investigator and Supervisor: Clarissa S. Holmes, Ph.D., Tulane University, Department of Psychology and Pediatrics. 1990, 1993-94.
-Topic: Cognitive depression. Principle Investigator: Lynn Abramson, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Department of Psychology. 1988-89.
-Topic: Nonacademic influences on academic performance. Principle Investigators: Bradford Brown, Ph.D. and Lawrence Steinberg, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Departments of Educational Psychology and Child and Family Studies. Funded by the National Center on Effective Secondary Schools. 1987.
Professional Affiliations
- Rocky Mountain Institute of Brainspotting (established 2009) Member 2009-present.
- Boulder Interdisciplinary Committee on Child Custody – Member, 1999-present.
- Association for Experiential Education - Member, 1995-1998.
- American Psychological Association - Member, 1993-1999.
- Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing International Association 2004 to present
- American Psychological Association - Member, 1993-present
- Association for Experiential Education - Member, 1995-1999
- The Boulder Interdisciplinary Committee on Child Custody - Member, 1999-present
- Board Member to Voices for Children - 1999-2001
- Volunteer - Boulder Institute for Psychotherapy and Research (BIPR) 1999-2002
Training Committee Member
Research Committee Member
- Column Writer
"Boulder Parent" - 2000-2002
"Boulder County Kids" - 1997-1999
Supervision Experience
Psychology Intern Supervisor. Supervised upper level psychology graduate students, social work and masters level graduate students 1 to 2 hours/week of face-to-face supervision in psychological assessment, individual, group and family treatment.
- Mental Health Center of Boulder County 1998-2003.
- Windsor School District 1997-98.
Trainings Taken
- The Art of Leadership, Robert Gass, Aug 2017
-The Body Keeps the Score, Bessle Van Der Kolk, Winter 2016
- Brainspotting, David Grand Level I, II, III, Intensive 2007-2010
- Affect Dysregulation, Alan Schore, study group 2006
- Eating Disorders Seminar: 2002
- Interdisciplinary Committee on Child Custody monthly lectures 1999-present
- Mediation/Arbitration Training, winter 2001
- EMDRIA Conferences: 2003 & 2004
- EMDR Basic Training, April 2001
- EMDR Quarterly Meetings Speaker Series 2002 to present
- Traumatic Memory 2000 with Bessel van der Kolk, January, 2000
- Trauma and the Developing Brain with Bruce Perry, October, 1999
- Trauma and the consequences of abuse and neglect in infancy, spring, 1999
- Play Therapy Conference, special seminars in childhood trauma, spring 1998, 1999.
- The Grieving Child, December 1997.
- Differential Diagnosis and Treatment: ADHD Vs PTSD in Children, 8/1997.
- Legal Aspects of Counseling, February, 1997
- Determining SIED Eligibility and Conducting Manifestation Hearings,1/1997.
- Teen Baseline Training of Facilitators, drug and alcohol prevention program. 12/1996
Multicultural Experience
- Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. All practicums experience completed in multi-racial settings. 1990-1994.
- Collaborative Approach to Nurturing Program, New Orleans LA. Assessment, Intervention and Research with African American caregivers and their infants. 1992-93.
- Franciscan Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA. Neuropsychological and Psychological Assessment and Treatment with African American, Hispanic and Asian children and families. 1995-96.
- Windsor School District, Windsor, CO. Hispanic children and families. 1996-1998.
- Mental Health Center of Boulder County, Boulder, CO. Hispanic, African American and Eastern European (Bosnia) infants, children, adolescents and their families. 1998- present.