Sarah E. Burgamy, Psy.D.
Founder
PhoenixRISE
Sarah Burgamy, Psy.D. is the founder of a private practice in Denver, Colorado, PhoenixRISE, with specialty offerings in identity development, sexual minority competency as well as transgender and gender diverse identities in adults, adolescents and children. Dr. Burgamy received her doctorate degree from the University of Denver, Graduate School of Professional Psychology, in Clinical Psychology, with an emphasis on child and adolescent development.
Dr. 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 healthcare 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, CT, as well as in the public and private community and professional sectors for organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and Google. Dr. 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.
Dr. Burgamy currently serves as a representative of the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity to the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives (2022-2024) and previously served as a member, and 2019 chair, of the APA Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (2017-2019). She is a Past-President of Colorado Psychological Association (CPA) and has previously served as the diversity division chair of CPA. Dr. 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. Dr. Burgamy currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology at APA.