Rural Psychology Practice (PN1-4)

Sarah Beckmann, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist working as a behavioral health consultant within a rural Federally Qualified Health Center in Washington State. She completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the school of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute in 2014 and is current pursing her clinical psychopharmacology postdoctoral MS Degree through California School of Professional Psychology.  Dustin Hammers, PhD, ABPP is an assistant professor of neurology and clinical neuropsychologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. He completes clinical neuropsychological evaluations for patients directly in his office in Salt Lake City, but also for patients in Jackson, Wyoming using telepsychology technology.  Emily Selby-Nelson, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist working as the lead/director of Behavioral Health for Cabin Creek Health Systems, a federally qualified health center that provides fully integrated primary care services to communities in rural West Virginia. Dr. Selby-Nelson strives to improve access to quality integrated behavioral health care through direct clinical service, advocacy, teaching, research and administrative and professional association leadership. Please email Dr. Selby-Nelson for more. Julie Yurie Takishima-Lacasa, PhD, is research specialist at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. In her clinical practice she specializes in providing integrated behavioral health services in rural primary care settings. As a generalist, she treats a broad range of mental health problems and disorders across the developmental spectrum, with an emphasis on working closely with medical providers to address behavioral factors in chronic illness care, physical symptoms associated with stress, and health behavior change. Her program of research focuses on addressing disparities in the accessibility and utilization of effective, culturally informed behavioral health services for at-risk, rural communities of Hawai‘i.