Meet Dr. Angela Venda
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Meet the team
Dr. Mary Lou Ancheta
Dr. Mary Lou Ancheta attended The California School of Professional Psychology and graduated in 2020. Her experience working with veterans and/or military families includes two years at the Department of Veterans Affairs where she provided clinical services, working on an interdisciplinary team to provide assessment, individual therapy, crisis triage, consultation, group therapy, and secondary care for medical appointments. She has worked with veterans from all branches struggling with combat PTSD, military sexual trauma, active suicidality, personality disorders, and mood disorders. She served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force for 6 years and served in the U.S. Air Force Reserves for 8 years.
Dr. Sheena Glover
Dr. Sheena Glover attended The American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University and graduated in 2016. She is an Air Force Veteran and her experience working with veterans and/or military families includes one year at Optum Serve, which is an independent contractor that specializes in the compensation and pension evaluation of active-duty service members and veterans from all branches struggling with combat PTSD, military sexual trauma, active suicidality, personality disorders, mood disorders, and a variety of other less common DSM-5 disorders. She works in a private practice treating the same population for similar disorders.
Dr. Stacy Rider
Dr. Stacy Rider completed a clinical doctoral degree program at the Georgia School of Professional Psychology, Argosy University in 2005. In addition to course work, she also completed a full-time pre-doctoral internship and a post-doctoral fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. She has worked in both private practice and for the Department of Veterans Affairs completing compensation and pension examinations and conducting psychotherapy with Veterans. She has also had a private practice since 2007 and has worked for the private sector as an independent contractor, completing compensation and pension examinations and medical opinions for 16 years. She has completed thousands of examinations and medical opinions in this capacity with service members and Veterans with varying demographics and mental health diagnoses.
Dr. Laura Schwerin
Dr. Laura Schwerin attended Fuller Theological Seminary’s Graduate School of Psychology and graduated with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in June 1995. She has 4 years of experience conducting C&P exams with veterans and over 24 years of experience performing psychological evaluations and providing therapy with adult populations. I served as Manager of Mental Health at Hazelden Betty Ford. While there she developed and launched their first Trauma and Addiction program. She has studied at the National Center for PTSD in Menlo Park, CA.
Dr. Aria DesRoberts
Dr. Aria DesRoberts earned a doctorate from the Wright Institute. After completing the requirements of her degree, she became a licensed Clinical Psychologist in the state of California in April 2016. She became licensed in the State of Colorado in August 2019 and in 2023, became a member of PsyPACT. Since obtaining her license, she has worked in both private practice, yet mainly conducting disability benefits evaluations for the VA and private Independent Medical Opinions. She has worked in this capacity for approximately eight years, conducting compensation and pension evaluations and IMEs for service members with varying demographics and mental health diagnoses. To date, she has completed over 15,000 disability assessments/evaluations.
Dr. Jonathan Rapp
Dr. Jonathan Rapp earned a M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Biola University. He has specialty training in trauma therapies (i.e., PE, CPT, CBCT-PTSD) through the Center for Deployment Psychology. He has many years of experience providing psychological services to service members and veterans in residential and outpatient settings at the Naval Medical Center San Diego and the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center. He has over 20 years of experience providing mental health evaluations.
