Efrat Hedges Eichenbaum, Ph.D., ABPP

 

Education & Training

Oct. 2024        American Board of Professional Psychology

Board Certified Rehabilitation Psychologist

 

August 2014 – Rehabilitation Psychology Postdoctoral Residency

August 2016    Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN

August 2013 – Psychology Doctoral Internship Program

August 2014    Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN (APA – accredited)

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Sep. 2009 –     Drexel University, Philadelphia PA

August 2014    Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology Concentration (APA – accredited)
Doctoral dissertation: Post-Traumatic Growth and Rehabilitation Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury

 

August 2003 – Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

May 2007        B.S. Psychology (Magna Cum Laude)

 

Clinical Experiences:

– Served as a Rehabilitation Psychologist at Barrow Neurological Institute’s Center for Transitional Neurorehabilitation in Phoenix, Arizona
– Provided clinical services to the Inpatient Psychiatry and Geropsychiatry units of a medical hospital in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota

– Worked as a Pain Psychologist for a hospital-based, interdisciplinary pain clinic

– Developed and staffed an inpatient consultation/rehabilitation psychology service at a Level 1 Trauma Center safety net hospital

– Served as a Clinical Research Manager for a research study comparing talk therapies for chronic pain at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

– Received three years of clinical training with military veterans, active duty servicemembers, and their families at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System

 

Additional Experiences:

– Current Networking Chair of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology) Program Committee

– Former Chair of APA Division 22’s Practice and Membership Committees

– Former member of the Minnesota Psychological Association Ethics Committee

– Current APA Internship and Residency Site Visitor

– Certified Empowered Relief™ for Chronic Pain instructor

 

Interests

• Geeking out with a good book or documentary
• Listening to 90’s and early 2000’s music, especially pop, alternative, and R&B
• Making corny jokes to try to make my patients laugh
• Traveling as much as possible, which is not much with two little kids!

Other Languages I speak:

Hebrew

Insurances I accept

Workers’ Compensation Insurance & SelectNet