Paula Domenici, Ph.D., is a Director of Training & Education at the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. She manages and implements training programs to enhance mental health providers' knowledge of military culture and evidence-based psychological assessments and treatments.  She oversees Star Behavioral Health Providers (SBHP), a training and referral program that is expanding access to community-based mental health care for service members, veterans, and families. SBHP is building a national network of military-aware civilian providers who support the military community and can be located in an online therapist directory.

Dr Domenici specializes in trauma and the treatment of PTSD using Prolonged Exposure Therapy and trains clinicians in these topics. When she joined CDP in 2006, her first position was at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland working in the outpatient clinic and inpatient casualty care unit. Earlier in her career, she was an APA Congressional Fellow in Washington, DC, as well as a Staff Psychologist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center in California. Dr. Domenici is licensed as a psychologist in Virginia and California.