Sarah Burgamy, PsyD

Sarah Burgamy, PsyD, is the founder of a private practice in Denver, Colorado, PhoenixRISE, with specialty offerings in identity development (considering intersections of target and non-target status identities), sexual minority competency as well as transgender and gender diverse issues with adults, adolescents and children. After receiving her degree from the University of Denver, Graduate School of Professional Psychology, in clinical psychology, with an emphasis on child and adolescent development, Burgamy instructed courses as an adjunct assistant professor at DU in the PsyD program and the International Disaster Psychology Master’s program focused on arenas of development and culture, LGBTIQQ+ cultural competency, and cross cultural analysis. Burgamy has previously worked as a founding integrated psychologist in the TRUE Center for Gender Diversity at Children’s Hospital Colorado (2017-20).

Burgamy has provided presentations and trainings in diverse professional settings, both on a local and national level in educational settings from preschools to colleges and universities, in health care settings such as the Colorado Children’s Hospital, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver Health, and the Department of Veterans Affairs in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as in the public community sector for organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, and The GLBT Center of Colorado. Burgamy has been interviewed or featured in media coverage in The Denver Post series, Transgender in Colorado, and on the Denver based daytime program, The Everyday Show addressing the phenomenon of gender identity and expression in children.

Burgamy previously served as the Colorado Representative to the APA Council of Representatives (2014-19) and as a member, and 2019 chair, of the APA Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (2017-19). She is a past-president of Colorado Psychological Association (CPA) and has previously served as the diversity division chair of CPA. Burgamy has been a member of the Board of Directors for Urban Peak, a non-profit organization in Colorado serving youth experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless, since 2008, and joined the Board of Trustees at Stanley British Primary School in Denver, Colorado in 2019. Burgamy currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology at APA.