Dr. Sylvia Marotta-Walters

As a board certified counseling psychologist trained in the scientist-practitioner model, Dr. Marotta-Walters focuses her research on complex post-traumatic stress disorders and their treatment; and on the measurement of stress and resilience. She holds a research appointment at WJB Dorn Veterans Medical Center in Columbia, SC.

Professor Marotta-Walters has presented nationally and internationally on the spectrum of stress disorders, family systems, diversity, and attachment-related disorders.

She is an associate editor for Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, and until 2014 was associate editor of the Journal of Counseling & Development.

She is Past President of the American Board of Counseling Psychology, and is on the Executive Committee for Division 56, Trauma Psychology, of the American Psychological Association.