Dr. Howard Gurr talks with Dr. Joe Elliott about VR in therapy

To see the video  of this conversation go to https://youtu.be/vrWC9vw0K6cToday I am talking with Dr. Joe Elliot about our respective uses of VR in our clinical practices. Joe Elliott, PhD is a licensed mental health provider and owner of Joe Elliott Psychological Services in Galveston, Texas (www.galvestonpsych.com), with nearly three decades’ experience as a clinician, evaluator, and behavioral science researcher. He previously coordinated research at the anxiety disorders clinics of the University of Houston and University of Texas Mental Sciences Institute, and at the Eyewitness Testimony research lab at Sam Houston State Univ. He is Mental Health Manager at the Texas NeuroAIDS Research Center, one of four NIH-sponsored “brain banks” (tissue repositories) in the US. Joe has a Master’s in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Cognition and Instruction Psychology. He received training in Criterion-Based Content Analysis (CBCA), Prolonged Exposure Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). He has been providing VR mental health applications since 2021, and is the first practitioner to deploy the IDEGO treatment suite in the US.