Dr. Libby Parins, MA, Psy.D., is the Chief of Staff at the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP). Dr. Parins began her career as a navy psychologist, completing her predoctoral internship at Navy Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD). Her clinical expertise is military psychology with emphasis on suicide prevention, PTSD, depression and anxiety disorders.  Dr. Parins has extensive clinical experience treating service members and their families.  After leaving the navy, she has worked for CDP since 2007, serving in many different capacities including as a faculty member on APA-accredited psychology internship programs (NMCSD and Madigan Army Medical Center), as a project developer and trainer in military and civilian programs, and as an Assistant Director of Training and Education. Dr. Parins loves working with graduate students and adult learners interested in working with military populations.  

As a CDP faculty member Dr. Parins has traveled widely across the United States, Europe, and Asia providing continuing education to civilian and military behavioral health providers. The courses and topics she has taught include Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD, Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention, ethics, depression, TBI, sleep disorders, substance abuse in military populations, military culture and the deployment cycle. Currently, she is based in North Carolina.