CARIE RODGERS, Ph.D., ABPP
Carie Rodgers, PhD, ABPP, currently serves as the Executive Advisor for Strategy & Impact at PsychArmor, where she supports organizational impact, leadership development, and programmatic innovation. Before moving into her role as an Executive Advisor, Dr. Rodgers was the Chief Strategy and Impact Officer at PsychArmor, where she oversaw the development, production, implementation, and evaluation of all training and support tools. A nationally recognized expert in training and education, behavioral health, and suicide prevention, she ensured all of PsychArmor’s educational materials are evidence-based, trauma-informed, human-centered, and grounded in best practices and scientific application.
She is also the Consulting & Supervising Psychologist at the University of San Diego Telehealth Training Clinic, where she provides clinical expertise and supervision for services supporting veterans and their families. In addition, Dr. Rodgers supports multiple research teams across the country as a consultant and co-investigator, helping design and implement high-quality, practice-informed studies across diverse academic and clinical settings.
Previously, Dr. Rodgers was a Senior Analyst at A-G Associates, where she held a leadership role as a thought leader, project/program leader, and mentor. She provided strategic direction in project development, strategy, and delivery, collaborating with corporate, nonprofit, and government partners. In this capacity, she also served as the Chief Education Strategy Officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs National Safeguard Initiative to Prevent Veteran Suicide, overseeing the development, strategy, and delivery of educational products while working closely with partners and stakeholders.
Dr. Rodgers spent nearly two decades in federal service at the Department of Veterans Affairs as an active clinician, researcher, educator, and administrator. An expert in the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), she was instrumental in the VA’s system-wide training initiatives for Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy. She also served as the Associate Director of the Education & Dissemination Unit at the VA Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health, was a Consultant for the National Center for PTSD, and was the Director of the VA San Diego Military Sexual Trauma Program.
Dr. Rodgers is passionate about public service, leadership, and mentoring and has trained and consulted with hundreds of mental health providers in the VA, the Department of Defense, and the broader community. She was a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine for twenty years, supervising and teaching principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to early-career behavioral health providers. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Clinical Readiness Project and Strength in Service, is a Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Headstrong Project, and is a member of the Gun Violence Reduction Community Partnership Council for the County of San Diego.
Dr. Rodgers earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oregon and completed her internship and postdoctoral training at UCSD and the San Diego VA. A licensed Clinical Psychologist in California, she is also Board Certified in Clinical Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. She lives in San Diego with her husband, two teenage daughters, and a household of furry friends.