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Lizabeth Roemer

Lizabeth Roemer PhD

Psychology
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Dr. Lizabeth Roemer is Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston in Boston, MA, USA. She regularly provides clinical supervision to the beginning and advanced clinicians, in addition to providing expert consultation in mindfulness- and acceptance-based behavioural therapies, with an emphasis on treating anxiety disorders, and teaching focused psychological strategies in numerous settings. She has an active, productive research career, including publishing over 100 journal articles and book chapters and co-editing two books on the role of emotion regulation, mindfulness, and experiential avoidance in anxiety and other disorders, and the use of acceptance-based behavioural therapies. In collaboration with Dr. Susan Orsillo, she has developed an acceptance-based behavioural therapy for generalized anxiety and comorbid disorders and examined its efficacy and mediators and moderators of change in studies funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.
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