Mariya Dvoskina PsyDDoctorate in Psychology
CTMCertified Threat Manager 
Prior Service in Corrections
Police and Public Safety Psychologist
Specializing in
- Adult individual therapy
- Crisis intervention & de-escalation
- Marital and couples therapy
- Peer support supervision
- Post critical incident response
- Suicide prevention
- Threat assessment and management
- Violence prevention and intervention
Dr. Mariya Dvoskina is passionate about working with first responders and their families, with nearly a decade of experience in this field. Mariya is the NFA emergency response coordinator and is passionate about crisis response and trauma intervention.
Degrees
- 2014 Master of Arts (M.A.) in Clinical Psychology, University of Denver
- 2016 Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D), University of Denver
License
- 2017 Colorado Licensed Psychologist #4713
Certificates
- 2016 Psychological First AID
- 2017 FEMA Incident Response
- 2019 Diplomat, American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress
- 2021 Certified Threat Manager, Association of Threat Assessment Professionals
- 2022 Trained Hostage Negotiator, National Tactical Officers Association
Mariya has been providing ongoing counseling and crisis intervention services to first responders and their families for nearly a decade. Her clinical specialties include working with stress, trauma, anxiety, and depression. She is also highly trained in the provision of marital and couples counseling.
Understanding that promoting responder wellness also means providing trauma informed organizational support, Mariya is involved in agency consultation and training. Mariya is involved in peer support training and supervises peer support teams locally and nationally. She is also highly involved in helping agencies develop other wellness initiates. On the public side, Mariya is highly involved with providing threat and violence risk management training, assessment, and consultation. She is a certified Threat Manager through the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (one of only three in the state), and the current Vice President of the Rocky Mountain Chapter. Mariya provides threat assessment consultation to local schools, universities, businesses, local law enforcement, FBI and Homeland Security.
Maryia is a first-generation immigrant and bilingual speaker. After her family moved to United States, she has developed close ties and roots within Colorado communities. She attended CU Boulder for her undergraduate training in psychology and then went on to pursue her graduate degrees at the University of Denver. Prior to starting grad school, she worked as a correctional officer within juvenile offender
settings. Currently, she continues to bring her humor, direct communication style and assertive attitude to her work at NFA.
Outside of work, Mariya enjoys cooking (and eating!) She is an avid dog lover, and enjoys the Colorado outdoors.
Crisis Intervention Training
- De-Escalation and Communication Strategies
- Suicide Intervention
- Understanding Mental Health Conditions
Peer Support Training
- Common Mental Health Disorders Counseling Skills
- Crisis Intervention
- Responder Relationships
- Suicide Detection and Disruption
Violence Prevention and Response Training
- Behavioral Intervention Team Development
- Detection and Disruption of Targeted Violence
- Disaster and Mass Casualty Incident Response and Recovery
- Threat Assessment and Management
Additional Trainings
- Adaptive Wellness and Resilience Education (A.W.A.R.E)