PTSD: National Center for PTSD

Biography

Cynthia Yamokoski, PhD is a clinical psychologist and the Associate Director of the PTSD Mentoring Program at the National Center for PTSD. She previously served as Section Chief for Specialty Mental Health and PTSD Program Manager at VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System (Cleveland, Ohio). She is a Senior Clinical Instructor at the Case Western Reserve University. She earned her doctorate from the University of Akron in 2006 and has been employed by the VA for over a decade and has managed the local PTSD programs for 10 years.

Her research and clinical interests include clinic flow/design, treatment of co-occurring PTSD and substance use disorders, combat-guilt, implementation of clinical innovations and strategies to increase the delivery of EBPs with complex populations.

Dr. Yamokoski and her colleagues in Cleveland have developed and implemented an intensive two- and four-week PTSD program utilizing massed delivery of evidenced-based psychotherapy for PTSD, and she is facilitating the implementation of this model in additional PTSD programs within the VA system.