RBA co-director Michael J. Rohrbaugh, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked in clinical and academic settings since 1970.
Before moving to the DC/Virginia area in 2013, Dr. Rohrbaugh was Professor of Psychology for 20 years at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he also directed the clinical psychology training clinic. Before that he taught at the College of William and Mary, Albany Medical College, and the University of North Dakota; worked in private practice; and served as a Vietnam era Army psychologist. He is now Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University, where he teaches psychiatry residents, and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Rohrbaugh has authored more than a hundred publications in social science and medicine. Much of this work focuses on how couple and family relationships are relevant to health and behavior problems, including chronic illnesses and addictions, and on the process of therapeutic change. Based on this research, he and colleagues developed a family consultation (FAMCON) approach, now featured by RBA, to help families deal with persistent problems of health and behavior that have not responded to other, individually focused interventions. In 2015 Dr. Rohrbaugh and Dr. Varda Shoham received the Distinguished Contributions to Family Systems Research award from the American Family Therapy Academy for bringing foundational family therapy ideas into the scientific mainstream. Their research was funded by organizations such as the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the American Heart Association.
Contact: mjrohrbaugh@gmail.com, 540-692-9515 (office) or 520-271-9510 (cell/text)