Our goal is to de-stigmatize mental health and ensure older adults get the mental health care they need.
Here's How We Do It:
Education & Resources for older Adults & Caregivers
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We offer practical guides, articles, podcasts, tools, and online resources for helping older adults and caregivers navigate mental health, dementia, and caregiving needs.
Access to mental health providers
We’re improving access to mental health care by building the only nationwide provider directory of licensed mental health providers who specialize with older adults.
Training for Professionals
We provide evidence-based, culturally responsive and inclusive, continuing education training to mental health, senior care, and healthcare professionals. This helps to ensure that professionals have specialized training to meet the mental health needs of older adults.
Our goal is to de-stigmatize mental health and ensure older adults get the mental health care they need.
Here's How We Do It:
Education & Resources for older Adults & Caregivers
We offer practical guides, articles, podcasts, tools, and online resources for helping older adults and caregivers navigate mental health, dementia, and caregiving needs.
Access to mental health providers
We’re improving access to mental health care by building the only nationwide provider directory of licensed mental health providers who specialize with older adults.
Training for Professionals
We provide evidence-based, culturally responsive and inclusive, continuing education training to mental health, senior care, and healthcare professionals. This helps to ensure that professionals have specialized training to meet the mental health needs of older adults.
Meet the Team
Continuing Education Training Advisory Committee
Regina Koepp, PsyD, ABPP
Board Certified Clinical Psychologist | Geropsychologist | Founder | Co-Director of CE Training
Prior to founding the Center for Mental Health & Aging, Dr. Koepp was an assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and former staff psychologist at the Atlanta VA Health Care System, where she provided direct patient care and consultation on the Geropsychiatry Outpatient Mental Health team for more than a decade. She was also professor for several years at the Brenau University Masters in Applied Gerontology Program.
Dr. Koepp earned her doctorate at the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences where she won the Richard W. Morrell Community Commitment Award.
Jennifer Steiner, PhD, ABPP
Board Certified Clinical Health Psychologist | Co-Director of CE Training
Dr. Jennifer Steiner is a board certified clinical health psychologist, founder of Beyond the Body Health Psychology Services, LLC, Co-Director of Center for Mental Health & Aging’s Continuing Education Program, Adjunct Faculty at Emory School of Medicine, Board Member of the Georgia Psychology Association Board of Directors, Co-Chair of the Continuing Education Committee for Georgia Psychological Association, and Member of the Committee on Health Psychology and Integrated Practice.
Dr. Steiner’s research and clinical practice focuses on chronic pain and interventions for chronic pain.
Regina Koepp, PsyD, ABPP
Board Certified Clinical Psychologist | Geropsychologist | Founder | Co-Director of CE Training
Dr. Regina Koepp is a clinical geropsychologist, and founder of the Center for Mental Health & Aging. She is a sought-after speaker and provides continuing education courses to professionals on topics surrounding mental health and aging, trauma informed care with older adults, cultural humility, and sexual health and aging.
Dr. Koepp is a contributing writer at Psychology Today and Psychotherapy Networker, where she discusses aging mental health and aging sexual health and aging. She has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Next Avenue, AARP, and other national periodicals.
Prior to founding the Center for Mental Health & Aging, Dr. Koepp was an assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and former staff psychologist at the Atlanta VA Health Care System, where she provided direct patient care and consultation on the Geropsychiatry Outpatient Mental Health team for more than a decade.Prior to founding the Center for Mental Health & Aging, Dr. Koepp was an assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and former staff psychologist at the Atlanta VA Health Care System, where she provided direct patient care and consultation on the Geropsychiatry Outpatient Mental Health team for more than a decade. She was also professor for several years at the Brenau University Masters in Applied Gerontology Program.
Dr. Koepp earned her doctorate at the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences where she won the Richard W. Morrell Community Commitment Award.
Jennifer Steiner, PhD, ABPP
Board Certified Clinical Health Psychologist | Co-Director of CE Training
Dr. Jennifer Steiner is a board certified clinical health psychologist, founder of Beyond the Body Health Psychology Services, LLC, Co-Director of Center for Mental Health & Aging's Continuing Education Program, and Adjunct Faculty at Emory School of Medicine.
She also serves as Board Member of the Georgia Psychology Association Board of Directors, President-elect, Georgia Psychological Association, Co-Chair of the Continuing Education Committee for Georgia Psychological Association, and Member of the Committee on Health Psychology and Integrated Practice, and is a Panelist and Subject Matter Expert for the Arthritis Foundation.
Dr. Steiner's research and clinical practice focuses on chronic pain and interventions for chronic pain.
Endsley Real, LCSW, MPH
Licensed Clinical Social Worker | CE Training Advisory Committee Social Work Consultant
Endsley Real is a licensed clinical social worker. She has over 10 years of administrative experience in directing programs for those with substance use disorders, mental illness, and those living with HIV. Ms. Real is currently Chair of the Nominating Committee for Association of Social Work Boards charged with selecting the slate for the ASWB Board of Directors. She served for 5 years on the State of Georgia Composite Board for Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapist including 2 years as the board chair.
Ms. Real obtained her MSW from Clark Atlanta University in 1997 and obtained an MPH from Emory University in 2014. She has worked in a variety of settings and with many populations but much of her career has been in working with those with substance use disorders and mental illness. She lives in the Emory area with her wife Joan.
Vonetta Dotson, PhD
Clinical Gero-Neuropsychologist | CE Training Advisory Committee Member
Dr. Dotson is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Gerontology at Georgia State University, Senior Project Scientist for Behavioral Health at NASA (KBR), and Founder and President of CerebroFit Integrated Brain Health. She completed her doctoral training in clinical psychology at the University of Florida with a specialization in neuropsychology and a certificate in gerontology. She completed her postdoctoral training at the National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program.
Dr. Dotson’s research and clinical activities focus on positive and negative modifiers of brain health, including the intersection of depression with cognitive and brain aging.
Kandi Schmidt, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist | Ad Hoc CE Training Advisory Committee Member
Dr. Kandi Schmidt is the Director of Transplant Behavioral Health at Emory University School of Medicine and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Schmidt specializes in the assessment and care of organ transplant patients, working with patients and their caregivers across solid organ groups including heart, liver, lung, kidney, as well as with living donors. She is also co-chair of the Patient and Family Advisory Council of the Emory Transplant Center, which works to ease the journey of the patient and family navigating the transplant experience through education, communication, advocacy and collaboration.
Continuing Education Approvals
Center for Mental Health & Aging is approved to offer CE Credits by the following organizations
Social Workers
Center for Mental Health & Aging, #1801, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Center for Mental Health & Aging maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/25/2023 – 03/25/2026.
Psychologists
Center for Mental Health & Aging is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Center for Mental Health & Aging maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Counselors
Center for Mental Health and Aging (CMHA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7230. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Center for Mental Health and Aging (CMHA) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Care Managers
CMHA is approved by the National Academy of Certified Care Managers (NACCM) as a continuing education provider, #21-905CMHA.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs)
Center for Mental Health & Aging (CMHA), Provider #1032775, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for California LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. CMHA maintains responsibility for this program/course and it’s contents