Alie Garza, LCSW
Instructor, Psychiatry-Adult Psychiatry

Clinical Interests
In the past nearly 10 years, she has worked in various clinical roles including crisis mobile response, youth suicide prevention, and IOP, PHP, and Residential treatment for OCD and Anxiety-Related disorders. She has extensive training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Exposure Response Prevention, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training, and Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality.

Care Philosophy
Alie Bernard Garza, LCSW, is a clinician with the OCD Program at the University of Colorado and holds an MSW from the University of Washington in Seattle. Her clinical interests include OCD and Anxiety-related disorders (including Panic Disorder, Illness Anxiety Disorder, Agoraphobia, Social Anxiety, etc.), providing neurodivergent-affirming care for co-morbidities such as ADHD and ASD, working with youth/parents/families, and taking a collaborative, strengths-based, individualized approach to treatment.

Public Speaking
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International OCD Foundation Conference (Denver, 2022) "Health Anxiety: Putting a Stop to the Urgency of the Emergency" International OCD Foundation: Summer 2023 Newsletter, "Life After ERP" Town Hall Livestream, Blog: Why I'm an Advocate, etc. OCD Family Podcast: EP: "The Rising of the Fall with Alie Garza" EP: Navigating Higher Levels of Care with Alie Garza" Please Excuse My OCD Podcast: EP: "Alie Garza: Her Story And Why The Mental Health Community Needs to Understand OCD" National Alliance of Mental Illness: Parenting and Mental Health Conference (2022, 2023)