Dr. Joel Guarna is a licensed psychologist in the state of Maine.  He earned his PhD from Bowling Green State University in 2000 and trained at the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology as a predoctoral intern and postdoctoral fellow.  Dr. Guarna later served as a staff psychologist in the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Boston.  During this time, he provided individual, couples, and group treatment to veterans with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders.  He directed an intensive outpatient program for veterans with addictions at the Brockton VAMC.  He provided training and supervision to psychologists-in-training and psychiatry residents as a Clinical Instructor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. 

Dr. Guarna began work in private practice in 2005 and now manages his own practice, White Pine Behavioral Health LLC, in Portland, Maine.  Dr. Guarna’s areas of interest and specialization include Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), mind/body health and mindfulness-based therapies, and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders, trauma and PTSD, and addictions.  He was introduced to ACT in 1999 and has attended and given numerous talks and trainings on ACT over the past several years.   
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Dr. Elizabeth Kubik is a clinical psychologist with a private psychology practice in Portland.  Dr. Kubik received her B.A. from Colby College in 1990 and her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Maine in 2002.  Her graduate research and clinical work focused extensively on cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) for anxiety.  She completed her pre-doctoral fellowship year at the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology (the Boston Medical Center and the Boston VAMC) in 2002, where she received training in the newer generation of mindfully-oriented CBT therapies, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). 

Upon returning to Maine in 2002, Dr. Kubik completed a post-doctoral residency at Kennebec Valley Mental Health Center in Augusta, with a focus on providing training and consultation to staff regarding CBT and ACT.  Since completing her graduate and postgraduate training, she has continued her training in ACT through participation in conferences and consultation groups.  In her practice, Dr. Kubik specializes in anxiety and stress management, post-partum depression, and women’s wellness/health psychology.
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