Sara Schmidt, Ph.D.
Sara Schmidt, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in Washington State where she is in private practice. She is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician, and an expert in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Prolonged Exposure (DBT PE) protocol for PTSD. Until 2021, she served as the Associate Director of the Trauma and Suicide 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. Dr. Schmidt has experience providing DBT in a variety of settings, regularly provides professional training and consultation in DBT and DBT PE nationally and internationally, and has published several peer reviewed articles and book chapters on these topics.
