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Joel Guarna, Ph.D.

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.