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Regina Koepp PsyD, ABPP

About

Regina Koepp, PsyD, ABPP, is a clinical geropsychologist and the founder of the Center for Mental Health & Aging. She provides continuing education courses to professionals on topics surrounding mental health and aging and sexual health and aging and is the creator of the only dementia and sexual health certification program in the United States

Koepp is creator and host of the Psychology of Aging Podcast and has been featured in national outlets including the New York Times, NPR, Chicago Tribune, and Katie Couric Media. Prior to founding the Center for Mental Health & Aging, she was an Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vice Chair of the Georgia Psychological Association Ethics Committee, and staff psychologist at the Atlanta VA Health Care System, where she provided direct patient care and consultation on an Older Adult Outpatient Mental Health team for more than a decade.

Recent Posts
The Best Way to Honor AAPI Heritage Month

With a surge of hate crimes against Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI), psychologist Kimberly Hiroto, Ph.D., guides us in honoring AAPI Heritage month now and in the future.

With a surge of hate crimes against Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI), psychologist Kimberly Hiroto, Ph.D., guides us in honoring AAPI Heritage month now and in the future.

How to Find Assisted Living with a Mental Health Condition

Looking for assisted living for an aging parent with a mental illness? These recommendations will help you find senior living and navigate future mental health needs.

Looking for assisted living for an aging parent with a mental illness? These recommendations will help you find senior living and navigate future mental health needs.

How to Support Elderly Parents Moving to Assisted Living

Worried about the "senior living discussion" with your elderly parent? These 12 strategies can help you manage escalating emotions with grace.

Worried about the "senior living discussion" with your elderly parent? These 12 strategies can help you manage escalating emotions with grace.

What Are the Different Senior Living Environments?

Navigating the waters of senior living can be overwhelming and confusing. This guide provides a primer on senior living and assisted living options and how to find them.

Navigating the waters of senior living can be overwhelming and confusing. This guide provides a primer on senior living and assisted living options and how to find them.

5 Resilience Strategies Seniors Are Using During COVID-19

Despite having the greatest risk of hospitalization or death if diagnosed with COVID-19, older adults are proving to be incredibly resilient in the face of the pandemic. Here's how.

Despite having the greatest risk of hospitalization or death if diagnosed with COVID-19, older adults are proving to be incredibly resilient in the face of the pandemic. Here's how.

How Is the Pandemic Affecting the Mental Health of Seniors?

Older adults are the most physically vulnerable to COVID-19, but how are the challenges of the pandemic affecting the mental health of older adults? New research fills us in.

Older adults are the most physically vulnerable to COVID-19, but how are the challenges of the pandemic affecting the mental health of older adults? New research fills us in.