Dana K. Rosen, PhD

Dana Rosen, PhD, is a psychologist with the Young Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Program in Providence.

She earned master of sciences and doctor of philosophy degrees in clinical-developmental psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, completed her clinical internship at VA Central Western Massachusetts, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rhode Island Hospital/The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Dr. Rosen’s clinical interests include using acceptance and commitment therapy approaches to treat a wide range of mental health concerns, with a focus on trauma and stressor-related disorders, anxiety disorders, and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders.

In her research, Dr. Rosen concentrates on the development and testing of mindfulness and app-based clinical interventions. Additionally, she examines how attentional mechanisms contribute to mood and anxiety disorders. She has published numerous research articles and has presented at national conferences.

Following her undergraduate training at Duke University, she was an Intramural Research Training Award Fellow in the section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Among her honors, Dr. Rosen has received the Bassell Clinical Excellence Award and twice received the Bassell Publication Award from the University of Pittsburgh.

She is a member of the Association for Contextual and Behavioral Science and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.