Brett Opelt, PhD

Brett Opelt, PhD

Position Psychologist

About Me

About Me

Brett Opelt, PhD, is a psychologist providing inpatient therapy. He completed his PhD in Counseling Psychology at New Mexico State University. He completed a 3-year research fellowship in rehabilitation psychology with an emphasis on multiple sclerosis at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a 1-year clinical fellowship in rehabilitation and pain psychology, focusing on burn injury, general complex medical conditions and spinal cord injury, at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital. His clinical interests include providing acute rehabilitation therapy to patients with burn, musculoskeletal disease, transplant, cancer and amputation. His research interests have focused on experience with adjustment and sleep concerns in chronic conditions and appearance and coping with burn trauma.

Location

Shirley Ryan 嫩B研究院

355 East Erie Street

Chicago, IL 60611

Education & Training

  • Education

    2017 – 2021

    New Mexico State University, PhD

    2012 – 2014

    University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Masters of Science in Educational Psychology: Community Counseling

Affiliations

  • American Psychological Association - Division 22
  • American Psychologist Association - Division 38