Rachel Ojserkis, PhD, is a psychologist in the Adult Partial Hospitalization Program at Rhode Island Hospital and a member of the Trauma Track team.
She earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Fordham University, and completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship training in the Brown Clinical Psychology Training Consortium, specializing in the evidence-based treatment of anxiety and trauma-related disorders.
Dr. Ojserkis has expertise working with individuals struggling with PTSD and trauma-related difficulties, OCD, and anxiety disorders. She utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy, with an emphasis on exposure treatments and mindfulness-based approaches (i.e., ACT, DBT). Dr. Ojserkis is also active within the Brown psychology training program, providing clinical supervision to interns and postdoctoral fellows, and serving on the internship admissions committee and as coordinator/primary supervisor of the RIH PHP internship rotation.
Dr. Ojserkis’s research interests include affective (particularly disgust) and mindfulness-based processes in anxiety and trauma-related disorders, about which she has authored peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and presentations. She is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.
