Marla Zeiderman, PsyD

Selected to be a Steward to help navigate partnership activities between employees, managers, and leadership.

• Serve as an advocate for employees and as a representative of employee interests in process development and interest based conflict resolution with Kaiser Permanente Colorado Behavioral Health Leadership.

• Integrated care psychologist working as a member of a Kaiser Permanente primary care medical office supporting family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and OBGYN medical providers.
• Optimize services offered to patients within an integrated healthcare system through the provision of evidence-based clinical practices.
• Collaborate and consult with patients and medical staff to develop care plans to address a variety of issues including insomnia, self-care, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, grief, dementia and improving adjustment to newly diagnosed chronic medical issues.
• Provide diagnostic assessment and brief interventions to primary care patients.
• Enhance the overall health of clinic patients by providing behavioral health services to promote self-management interventions to improve overall health and quality of life.
• Provide as needed onsite crisis intervention.
• Utilize screening instruments: PHQ-9, GAD7, MDQ, SLUMS, etc.
• Knowledge of psychopharmacology.
• Create and facilitate psychoeducation groups.
• Experiencing conducting psychological evaluations for adult ADHD, CBT-I spinal cord stimulator trials.
• Precepting medical school students.

Media appearances on mental health topics: mainstream media articles, radio and in-person presentations.

• Provided outpatient mental health services to active-duty military personnel at Buckley Air Force Base’s 460th Medical Group.
• Services provided to Air Force, Navy, Marine, and Army service members.
• Conduct multiple weekly intake assessments for individuals voluntarily seeking counseling or referred by military command.
• Provide psychological counseling services for individuals with a variety of psychological diagnoses.
• Conduct a variety of military psychological evaluations determining fitness for duty, ability to cross-train, separation processes, medical board evaluations (MEB).
• Provide evidence-based treatment including Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD.
• Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team consisting of physicians, social worker, substance abuse counselors, and family advocacy managers.
• Managed supervision for two psychology doctoral students and supported unlicensed clinicians as required.
• Participate in monthly patient review board.

• Company Overview: Legacy provides competent, ethical, and evidence-based psychotherapy to children, adolescents, their parents, adults, families, and couples.
• Provide outpatient psychological counseling to insured, EAP, and self-pay individuals and couples.
• Facilitate individual and group psychotherapy for adults (18+) with a variety of psychological diagnoses and psychosocial stressors.
• Consult with a multidisciplinary team.
• Legacy provides competent, ethical, and evidence-based psychotherapy to children, adolescents, their parents, adults, families, and couples.

• Member of the primary care team providing consultation and brief outpatient mental health treatment to patients of Stride Community Health Center, formally known as Metro Care Providers Network (MCPN), an FQHC and safety net medical clinic that provides primary healthcare to those who have limited access.
• Provide education on and support medical providers related to the impact of behavioral health on disease management and education on mental health illnesses to improve utilization and value of in-house consultative behavioral health services.
• Perform psychological diagnosis, assessment, brief evidence based treatment and crisis intervention.
• Creation of psychoeducational classes/groups based on ever-changing clinic.
• Collaborate with patients and medical staff to develop personalized self-management goals, psychopharmacology and treatment plans to address a variety of issues including diabetes management, improved self-care, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, and improving adjustment to newly diagnosed chronic medical issues.

• Provide outpatient assessment and treatment with insured, Medicare, and Medicaid adults.
• Lead individual and group therapy with clients with chronic and serious mental illnesses.
• Facilitate a Bipolar Education and Skills Training (B.E.S.T.) that is a manualized treatment program that is based on evidence-based treatments and utilizes social rhythms and dialectical behavioral therapy techniques – Involved in the constant revision and updating of the program.
• Involved in weekly multidisciplinary staffing and treatment planning.
• Provide weekly supervision for clinic field-placement doctoral student and involved in the training program for the Center’s pre-doctoral psychology interns.
• Provide case management and collaborate with primary care physicians, probation/parole, Social Services, TANF, and outside mental health professionals.

• Company Overview: APA-Approved Pre-Doctoral Internship Program
• Collaborate and consult with a multidisciplinary team in primary care clinics providing brief psychotherapy and consultation services to patients and their caregivers.
• Provide psychiatric assessments for dementia, capacity, and a variety of other questions for all hospital medical units.
• Conduct outpatient and inpatient treatment with adolescents and adults with both acute and serious persistent mental illness.
• Provide weekly individual supervision for psychology externs providing direct clinical care.
• Administration, scoring, and interpretation of standardized psychological tests.