John M. Rector, PHD

John Rector, PhD, is a psychologist at Intermountain Health's Heber Valley Hospital Behavioral Health, working in the Mental Health Integration (MHI) program. In this role, he works within the medical setting to provide mental health therapy and consultation alongside your established primary care provider or specialist.

MHI treatment is a short-term program designed to help manage mental health symptoms that affect quality of life and typically includes 3–6 visits. Patients must be referred to by a primary care provider at one of the clinics where Dr. Rector practices. Your care team works together throughout treatment to support your needs. If additional or long-term care is needed, we can help coordinate a referral. Patients who need longer-term behavioral health care or do not have a qualifying primary care provider should talk with their PCP or contact Intermountain Health’s Behavioral Health Navigation Service at 833-442-2211.

As a provider, Dr. Rector's approach to psychotherapy is largely East/West integrative with emphases on acceptance & commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness/meditation practices, existential psychotherapy, and cognitive/behavioral therapy (CBT).  These are embedded within an understanding that the relationship between client and therapist is the most important element. He provides care for a wide range of psychotherapeutic challenges, such as anxiety disorders; depression; crises of faith; body-image/eating disorders; histories of abuse/trauma; addictions; LGBTQ adjustment challenges; men's issues; and personality disorders. He has treated many clients struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in individual and group formats using exposure with response prevention (ERP). 

Dr. Rector has also published multiple times in the professional literature on the psychology of religion, including a book published with Oxford University Press (2014) on the problem of human destructiveness as understood through the lens of objectification.