Robin Gabriels, PsyD, MA

Dr. Robin Gabriels, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Depts. of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz campus School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. Dr. Gabriels has over 30 years’ experience developing intervention programs along with assessing and treating a variety of pediatric and adult psychiatric populations, including those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Dr. Gabriels established the Neuropsychiatric Special Care program at Children’s Hospital Colorado, one of the few nationally recognized specialized psychiatric inpatient and day treatment units for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or intellectual disabilities. Her research efforts have focused on the autism population for the past 25 years and for the past 14 years, on evaluating the effects of Animal-Assisted Interventions (AAI) on youth with ASD. Dr. Gabriels successfully completed an NIH/NINR-funded R01 protocol studying the Effects of Therapeutic Horseback Riding on Children and Adolescents with Autism and she is currently the PI of a 5-year multi-site R01 protocol studying the physiological mechanisms of action relating to immediate and long-term therapeutic horseback riding intervention effects in a psychiatric population of youth with autism spectrum disorder (Project #: 1R01HD097693-01A1).