Sara Schmidt
DBT-Certified Board of Certification, Certified Clinician
Not currently accepting new clients
Psychologist, She/Her
Sara Schmidt, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Washington who provides evidence-based treatments to adults and older adolescents from a cognitive-behavioral framework. She is also authorized to practice inter-jurisdictional telepsychology through PSYPACT for individuals residing in participating states (see here for a map: https://psypact.site-ym.com/page/psypactmap). Dr. Schmidt is a nationally recognized expert in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Prolonged Exposure (DBT PE) protocol for PTSD, and also provides Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure Therapy. Concurrently, she is a Trainer and Consultant for Behavioral Tech, LLC, the DBT training company founded by the treatment developer, Dr. Marsha Linehan. Until 2021, she served as the Associate Director of the Trauma and Suicide Treatment Research Lab at the Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research, part of the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, where she was a Co-Investigator on NIMH-funded research focused on the evaluation and implementation of DBT and DBT PE. As part of this work, she co-developed the DBT Adherence Checklist for Individual Therapy (DBT AC-I), a tool that can be used by DBT therapists to evaluate the degree to which they are delivering DBT in a way that is consistent with the treatment manual. Dr. Schmidt completed her postdoctoral training with Dr. Melanie Harned at the University of Washington. While there, she directed the graduate training program in DBT, and she currently maintains a Clinical Instructor position through the Department of Psychology supervising advanced doctoral students. Dr. Schmidt has experience providing DBT in a variety of settings, regularly provides professional trainings and consultation in DBT and DBT PE nationally and internationally, and has published several peer reviewed articles and book chapters on these topics. She is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician.