Education and Training
The Colorado Center for Women's Behavioral Health and Wellness provides training for psychiatry residents and fellows, and students in medicine, psychology, nurse practitioner and social work programs.
- Psychiatry residents’ training in women’s health and mental health
- Psychology post-doctoral fellows in women’s health and mental health
- Interprofessional and interdepartmental teaching in women’s and mental health
- Continuing education courses on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and for community providers on women’s health and mental health and health psychology topics. Please check back for future continuing education opportunities.
Clinical Health Psychology Fellowship Position Available
We are currently on pause for a clinical health psychology fellowship for 2024. Check back in Fall of 2025 for more information.
For other Department of Psychiatry fellowships please email dop.fellowship@ucdenver.edu or visit our website here!
The Women’s Reproductive Psychiatry specialty track of the University of Colorado School of Medicine Psychiatry Residency Program is designed to provide residents with an in-depth exposure to reproductive psychiatry during residency training and to support career development within this sub-specialty field.
Residents who participate in the track will improve their knowledge and skills in psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of women at times of reproductive transition and with a wide range of psychiatric concerns. As a member of our academic community, residents completing the track will develop proficiencies in reviewing and interpreting scientific literature, interprofessional collaboration, and scholarly writing.
Please check back in Fall of 2025 for more information!
This ECHO series is designed to support clinicians who care for pregnant patients in the evaluation and treatment of common mental health conditions presenting in the perinatal period. Facilitated by a multidisciplinary team including obstetrician gynecologists, perinatal psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, each session will include a brief presentation by an expert followed by discussion of participant-submitted cases.
Participants will gain confidence and knowledge in addressing the perinatal mental health needs of their patients while building connections with their peers.
Sessions include a brief didactic presentation by an expert and discussion of participant-submitted cases. Participants are highly encouraged to submit de-identified patient cases for group discussion and expert consultation.
Stay tuned for more information about future dates.
Provider Education
Our team is available to present to partner organizations upon request on the following topics:
- Infertility
- Pregnancy and postpartum
- Perinatal loss
- Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
- Persistent pelvic pain
- Chronic gynecologic conditions
- Sexual health
- Perimenopause
- Breast cancers
- Gynecologic cancers
Contact us at WBHW@cuanschutz.edu to inquire.
Highlighted Work from Trainees
Raque, T. L., Ross, K.V., Hangge, A. R., & Gaines, R. C. (in press). A meta-ethnography on the impact of cancer for lesbian and queer women and their partners. Qualitative Health Research.
Nagle-Yang, S., Latorre, S., Quaratella, S., Shah, R., Weber, L., Kanefsky, R., & Hasser, C. (2022). Women’s Mental Health: Core Concepts for Community Psychiatry. In Textbook of Community Psychiatry (pp. 257-279). Springer, Cham. ISBN: 978-3-031-10238-7
Nagle-Yang S., Nouri P. (2022). Cannabis in the Perinatal Period. In Riggs and Thant (ed). Cannabis in Psychiatric Practice- A Practical Guide. Springer. ISBN: 978-3-031-04873-9
Solness, C. L., & Kivlighan, D. M. III. (2022). Queering group therapy: A mixed-methods effectiveness study for transgender and non-binary persons.
Solness, C. L., Holdefer, P. J., Hsu, T., Kroska, B. K., & O’Hara, M. W. (2022). A qualitative analysis of the therapeutic relationship in supported on-line treatments for postpartum depression.
Solness, C. L., & Kivlighan, D. M. III. (2022). Queering group therapy: A phenomenological participatory design with transgender and nonbinary individuals. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 53(3), 215–224. https://doi.org/10.1037/pro0000459