Lia Bishop, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than a decade of specialized experience helping adults navigate life after trauma. She earned her doctorate from Clark University, where her research focused on an often-overlooked effect of trauma: it can teach people to distrust not only painful emotions, but positive ones as well—leaving many with the sense that good feelings aren’t safe. Before founding Ember Psychology, Dr. Bishop worked in outpatient and residential PTSD programs at the Department of Veterans Affairs. She worked with clients navigating complex trauma histories and heavy symptom burdens, providing evidence-based treatments (primarily Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure) in weekly and intensive formats. She also utilizes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness-based approaches in her work. Her clinical expertise encompasses many post-traumatic experiences, including the intersection of trauma with anxiety, depression, perfectionism, substance use, chronic pain, pregnancy and parenting, relationship dynamics, and sexual health. She also carefully attends to how identity (race and ethnic heritage, gender and sexuality, religion, ability, age, etc.) shapes trauma experience and recovery. Because trauma can affect relationships, Dr. Bishop offers couples therapy to help partners work through this impact together. Trauma-focused couples therapy helps partners understand how trauma manifests in the relationship, build compassion for one another’s responses, and develop concrete strategies to shift unhelpful dynamics. Dr. Bishop offers a therapeutic environment that is structured, collaborative, and grounded in research. She works with adults in-person in Denver and virtually across PSYPACT member states.