GAS Evaluations & Referral Letters

UCEBT provides psychosocial evaluations for those seeking gender affirmation procedures and requiring an additional mental health provider to provide a referral letter. The UCEBT Assessment and Testing Program adheres to the guidelines for assessment as described in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care, 8th Version. These evaluations consist of a single 90 minute appointment with our assessment clinicians. They are billed for the face-to-face (in-person or virtual) assessment time and letter writing time.

In terms of what to expect for these evaluations, our primary goals are to ascertain:

1. How mental health symptoms can potentially impact recovery from surgery and being emotionally prepared for potential complications or less than satisfactory outcomes;
2. Whether there are any high risk behaviors that may benefit from treatment prior to surgery; and,
3. What types of supports exists pre- and post-surgery, such as having someone transport the individual to and from surgery, assist with recovery needs, and what financial supports they have planned.

We understand that by the time you meet with us, you have been through a journey of recognizing, understanding, disclosing, and living your gender identity and your need for having gender affirming surgeries. In all, our goal is to get you to surgery, with a minimum of barriers or gatekeeping, and support a positive and satisfactory surgical outcome.

For more information, complete this online form to be scheduled for a free 15-minute consultation.

This is an exciting time of year for us! We are thrilled to be welcoming some amazing new psychologists to our team. 

Cristina Chévere-Rivera, Psy.D. and Carl Sallee, Psy.D. are our two newest postdoctoral residents.

Dr. Chévere-Rivera specializes in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Multicultural Therapy, and Feminist Therapy with a particular passion for working with the Latinx immigrant population. Dr. Chévere-Rivera is primarily working with our Trauma, Stress, & Resilience program.

Dr. Sallee specializes in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and has a passion for de-stigmatizing the use of mental health services. Dr. Sallee is primarily working with our Anxiety & Mood program.

Both Dr. Chévere-Rivera and Dr. Sallee are taking clients at a sliding scale rate.

Sloan Strike, Ph.D. and Jordan Kugler, Ph.D. are our two newest clinical psychologists.

Dr. Strike specializes in evidenced-based therapies with adolescents, young adults, and their families. Over her 12 years in New York City, Sloan specialized in providing family therapy and parenting support. She values working with youth and their families to create opportunities for improved communication and healthier relationships. Dr. Sloan is primarily working with our Anxiety & Mood program.

Dr. Kugler specializes in specializes in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD (PTSD) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Jordan’s therapeutic style is upbeat, collaborative and emphasizes identifying, developing and actualizing his client’s values. He is currently taking referrals for adolescents (14 and up) as well as adults and couples/parents. Jordan is also available for professional consultation and trainings. Dr. Kugler is primarily working with our Dialectical Behavior Therapy program.

Kalee Gross, Psy.D. will be joining us in October as a licensed clinical psychologist.

 Dr. Gross will be a primary member of UCEBT’s Anxiety and Mood team, providing individual, family, and group intervention through evidence-based modalities, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), for individuals struggling with anxiety and depression. Dr. Gross also has experience in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), an evidence-based treatment for young children with behavioral problems.

All of these wonderful psychologists are currently taking new clients.

We are so excited to welcome two new postdoctoral clinicians to our team! 

Cristina Chévere-Rivera, Psy.D. and Carl Sallee, Psy.D. are highly trained in evidence-based treatments and we are so excited to announce that they will also be available to see clients at sliding scale rates.

Our post-doctoral sliding scale rates for postdoctoral residents are as follows:

For household incomes:
$40,999.99 or less: $95/hr.
$41,000.00 - $60,999.99: $115/hr.
$61,000.00 - $80,999.99: $135/hr.
$81,000.00+: $155/hr. (not eligible for sliding scale, full rate only)

To get started with either Dr. Chévere-Rivera or Dr. Sallee, please CLICK HERE.

Instructions for Using Microsoft Teams  

• You will receive an invitation via email from . Sometimes the invitation is sent to your Junk inbox, please check here as well.  
• At the bottom of this email it will say “Join Microsoft Teams Meeting”. Click this when it is time for your appointment.  
• If you are on an Apple device, it is recommended that you download the app to either your phone or computer.  
  • If you are on your phone, you can find the Microsoft Teams App in the App Store 
  • If you are on a computer, it is not available in the app store. You can get to the download by clicking “Join Microsoft Teams Meeting” in your email, this will guide you to downloading the app.  
• If you are not on an Apple device, the link should lead you directly to your Microsoft Calendar. This is where you will see your appointment.  
• If it asks for a login, this should just be the login you regularly use for your email. 

For your first appointment, please be sure to join your Microsoft Teams Meeting at least 5 minutes prior to the start time to avoid delaying or shortening your session.

If find that you need technical support, please call the office at (801) 419-0139 during normal business hours.

We are excited to announce that our Assessment & Testing Program Director, Laura Rowley, Psy.D., is now licensed in the state of Idaho!

Dr. Rowley can now provide both telehealth and in-person psychological assessments and diagnostics for residents of both Utah and Idaho.

Dr. Rowley is also PsyPact approved and can provide telehealth services in the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia , Georgia , Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia. 

Learn more about Dr. Rowley's Assessment & Testing Services, Psycho-Educational Evaluations, and Autism Evaluations.

And check out her recent Q&A video about autism: 

Podcasts

"Unlocking Us" with Brené Brown -- Podcast episode with Brené with Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce D. Perry on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

"Ten Sessions" -- "What if someone told you about a type of therapy that could help you work through unhealed trauma in just ten sessions? Some people knock through it in two weeks. Jaime Lowe tried the therapy—and recorded it."

Videos

How to Make Stress Your Friend

Kristen Neff: The Three Components of Self-Compassion

Three Secrets of Resilient People

How Trauma is Stored in the Body

How Trauma Affects the Body Throughout the Lifeti

2 Minute Neuroscience on PTSD

Examples of Gaslighting

What is Trauma Bonding

Comparison of PTSD brains in soldiers and children

Complex Trauma and its Effects on Child Development

Books

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce Perry

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

Transforming the Legacy of Trauma by Janina Fisher

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Nicole LaPera

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Love by Amir Levine

Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered by Bruce Perry

Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel (about parenting your children well when you are a trauma survivor)

The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole by Arielle Schwartz PhD

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem 

Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body by David Emerson and Elizabeth Hopper

101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward by Linda Curran 

Attachment Theory: A Guide to Strengthening the Relationships in Your Life by Thais Gibson

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry

Websites

Caregiver Stress and Burnout: Caring.com is a leading senior care resource for family caregivers seeking information and support as they care for aging parents, spouses, and other loved ones.https://www.caring.com/caregivers/burnout/

Caregiver Support from Senior Housing Net has over 60 articles from a wide range of topics that can assist caregivers in taking care of their loved ones: https://www.seniorhousingnet.com/advice-and-planning/caregiver-support

UCEBT's YouTube Videos

Understanding the Risks of Trauma Exposure and Increasing Resilience in Graduate Students presented by Shelle Welty, Psy.D.

Vicarious Resilience: Learning from and Growing with our Clients presented by Shelle Welty, Psy.D.

Learn more about UCEBT's Trauma, Stress, and Resilience (TSR) Program and Program Director, Dr. Shelle Welty.

Classes

Jordan Family Education Center: https://guidance.jordandistrict.org/jfec/

Utah State University: https://extension.usu.edu/hru/

Online Videos & Resources

Child Mind Institute: https://childmind.org/

PCIT International: http://www.pcit.org/for-parents.html

Early Childhood Service

The Children’s Center https://childrenscenterutah.org/

Books

No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting by Dr. Laura Markham 

Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life by Dr. Laura Markham 

The Incredible Years: Trouble Shooting Guide for Parents of Children Aged 3-8 Years by Carolyn Webster-Stratton 

Combative to Collaborative: The Co-parenting Code by Teresa Harlow 

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown 

How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen by Joanna Faber and Julie King

How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

How To Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change by Valerie Porr

The Incredible Years: A Trouble‑shooting Guide for Parents of Children Aged 2-8 Years by Carolyn Webster-Stratton

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

Your Defiant Child, First Edition: Eight Steps to Better Behavior by Christine M. Benton and Russell Barkley

Your Defiant Teen, Second Edition: 10 Steps to Resolve Conflict and Rebuild Your Relationship by Arthur L. Robin and Russell Barkley

The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child: With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills by Alan E. Kazdin

The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction by Christine Carter

Parenting Teens With Love And Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood, Updated and Expanded Edition by Foster Cline and Jim Fay

Podcasts

The Parents Survival Kit- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFAYWYRR5XYgJBuYYFESokg

TILT Parenting- https://tiltparenting.com/

Parent Footprint- https://parentfootprint.com/podcast/

Your Parenting Mojo- https://yourparentingmojo.com

UCEBT's YouTube Videos

Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Factors Contributing to the Changing Relationship and Ways Parents Can Improve the Relationship presented by Kalee Gross, Psy.D.

Social Media: Risks and Benefits for Mental Health presented by Katie Flanagan, Psy.D.

ACT Mindfully: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Children & Adolescents presented by Rachel Hopkins, Psy.D.

Missed Diagnosis or Misdiagnosis? Population Considerations and Clinical Comorbidities Contributing to Delayed Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder presented by Laura Rowley, Ph.D.

Working with Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth presented by Sloan Strike, Ph.D.

The term ‘social media’ refers to websites and applications that enable users to create and share content with others, verbally or visually. According to current research, 72% of the public uses some type of social media and at least 92% of teenagers are active on social media. This lecture will present the latest research on the impact of social media on mental health, factors to consider when thinking about our own and others' social media usage, and possible treatment interventions to target the negative effects that can arise from social media use.

Friday, August 6, 2021
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (MST)
1.0 CE hour (UPA & NASW-UT) -- pending

Register here: https://form.jotform.com/211876399215162

Katie Flanagan, Psy.D., clinical psychology. Dr. Flanagan has her PsyD from PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at UCEBT. She has expertise in working with teens and young adults and serves on both the Anxiety & Mood, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teams at UCEBT. She specializes in treating mood and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and higher risk behaviors including self-harm and chronic suicidal thoughts. 

NOTE: Even if you cannot attend the live event, complete the registration to receive presentation recording, slides, and evaluation form for CE credit.

Mindworks Clinic Integrative Mental Health -- Services include: Psychiatric Evaluation, Medication Management, Mindfulness Based Counseling & Education. Specializes in treating: Major Depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), OCD, Bipolar Disorder, Insomnia. Prescriber: Darin Principe, APRN, board certified as both a psychiatric mental health and family nurse practitioner with full prescriptive authority. 

Dearest friends, clients, and colleagues,

As of June 7th, 2021, UCEBT has officially reopened its doors to in person clients. Our staff will continue to offer a hybrid of telehealth and in person services as best supports their practice. The opportunity to meet long term clients in person for the first time and see others again after over a year has been both a meaningful and evocative experience. We've missed you!

As we return to offering in person psychotherapy, we wish to prioritize evidence-based health practices with the intention of finding a middle path between physical health and safety and effective delivery of mental health services. With this in mind, we are pleased to announce the option for clients with proof of double vaccination to choose to remove their masks while in therapy rooms with their clinician.

Your clinician will inquire about your preferences and will respect your wishes with regards to delivery of therapy with or without a mask. We will continue the use of masks in our waiting room and common areas as an acknowledgment of the needs of our clients who may be at ongoing elevated risk of contracting COVID, as well as our child clients for whom vaccination is not possible at this time.

For our current clients, an updated in person disclosure form will be emailed shortly for your signature. Should you choose to maintain telehealth only sessions or should any questions or concerns arise regarding the disclosure, please feel free to defer signature until you have had any concerns addressed by your therapist or our desk staff. We value your feedback on ways in which we can improve your experience of in person or telehealth sessions.

This summer we will monitor the impact of this transition on our staff and clients and review the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and the American Psychological Association. We look forward to eventually resuming in person groups, professional trainings, and outreach events and will keep you updated on our offerings as they arise.

Warm wishes for a mindful reentry to you and your loved ones.

With gratitude,

Robin Lange, Ph.D

.Chief Executive Officer

Licensed Clinical Psychologist