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Rachel E. Latta, Ph.D., CPRP

Dr. Latta received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology in 2008 from Boston College. She joined the New England MIRECC as a research investigator in 2011. She serves as a consultant on intimate partner violence for the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Mental Health Services, and she is the Director of the Safing Center, an outpatient clinic at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital that provides a holistic, recovery-oriented, Veteran-centered approach to helping Veterans establish and maintain safety in their relationships.

Her research is focused on treatment interventions for Veterans with co-occurring disorders who use violence in their relationships, screening for intimate partner violence and for those at risk of intimate partner violence among Veterans with co-occurring disorders, community responses to intimate partner violence, and the role of family and friends in intervening in intimate partner violence. As part of her role with Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services, Dr. Latta is currently serving on a newly established national VA task force designed to examine VA’s response to the issue of intimate partner violence, with an eye toward ensuring the VA health care system is providing optimal care and support to Veterans facing these issues.