Alisa Bartel, Ph.D.
Dr. Bartel began her clinical journey during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with the specific intent to help when those service members returned home. She became one of the first graduates in the country with a specialty doctorate in Trauma from the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs. Clinical and research training occurred at VA Medical Centers in Colorado Springs, Cincinnati, and San Francisco, Fort Carson, and the Veterans Health and Trauma Clinic. Dr. Bartel has also been actively involved on the volunteer front with disaster deployments and mental health leadership roles within Team Rubicon and Team Red, White, and Blue.
As a therapist, Dr. Bartel helps clients find balance, presence, and contentedness by equipping them with the tools they need to regulate their nervous system and build better relationships with themselves and others. Many of today’s solutions for PTSD are limited by insurance, too focused on talk and “venting,” or disconnected from the realities of living with it, leading so many to feel like therapy just made things worse or was kind of pointless because it didn’t actually change anything.
Dr. Bartel is also the stepdaughter of a Green Beret and spouse to a Purple Heart combat veteran with PTSD, allowing her to bridge clinical expertise with lived experience. She will meet you with the grit and experience of a doctoral-level psychologist as well as the compassion and commitment of spouse who gets it.
In-person and remote therapy sessions available in Colorado Springs, CO. There is also a psychiatric service dog, named Macy, in the office. Dr. Bartel can practice telehealth outside CO, using the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT), granted by the PSYPACT Commission (Exp. date: 08/23/2025, #:15640). PSYPACT is an interstate compact offering qualified psychologists the opportunity to practice telepsychology in multiple states. Please click here to see if your state is part of the jurisdiction:
https://psypact.org/mpage/psypactmap
Rose on Rainier Trauma Therapy, P.C.
(719) 225-2289