Elissa Wilburn, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Wilburn’s clinical work is dedicated to delivering trauma-informed and evidence-based assessment and interventions for children and adolescents. Dr. Wilburn is a certified Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) therapist and PCIT Within Agency trainer. She is also a certified therapist in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Additionally, Dr. Wilburn is co-leading the development of a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program for teens and their families at the Child Study Center at UAMS and recently became trained in the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS). Dr. Wilburn is also an in-house trainer for the Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) to help others attain and sustain wellness in their career. For the past few years, Dr. Wilburn has also collaborated with early childhood education programs to help facilitate and support organizational change and implementation of trauma-informed programming and provides consultation to schools following traumatic life experiences across the state of Arkansas. Furthermore, her research interests are focused on contributing to the scientific literature examining the risk factors associated with child and parent characteristics that independently and together contribute to both the exacerbation and undermining of child psychopathology following traumatic life experiences. Dr. Wilburn earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Texas Tech University and completed both her doctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at UAMS.