Rebecca L. Troeger, PhD

Rebecca L. Troeger, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with Lifespan’s Family Therapy Program. 

Her areas of interest are relational, recovery-oriented, and trauma-informed psychotherapy; interpersonal functioning and the impact of social context and relationships on health and wellbeing; and multi-person therapies, including couple, family, and group psychotherapy.

Dr. Troeger's peer-reviewed published work has focused on issues of racial and social equity in schools and other systems, and medicalization in mental health care.

She obtained a doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where her dissertation focused on anti-racist organizational change in mental health care. Her doctoral practicum internship was with Brandeis Counseling Center, a multicultural university-based treatment center. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her clinical psychology pre-doctoral internship was in psychosocial rehabilitation at Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Massachusetts.

Dr. Troeger is a clinical instructor in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Prior to pursuing a career in psychology, she worked in the field of international education. She speaks conversational Mandarin and French.