Heather Hawley
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Charlotte Brill
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Kyrill Gurtovenko
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Paige Peterson
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Lizzie Neilson, MSW, MPH
Lizzie graduated from the University of Michigan in 2006, where she earned a B.A. in both psychology and women’s studies. She then obtained a dual Master of Social Work and Public Health from UM, while concurrently researching the impact of sexual trauma on pregnancy, post-partum, and early parenting experiences. After graduation, she worked as a clinical social worker in Chicago where she provided individual and group psychotherapy to children, parents, and families who had experienced trauma. At the University of Washington, Lizzie’s research has primarily centered on the nexus of sexual violence perpetration, sexual risk, and substance use. Ultimately, she is interested in identifying mechanisms that facilitate sexual aggression to inform sexual violence intervention development, evaluation, and dissemination.
As a clinician, Lizzie is dedicated to providing care that is both grounded in empirically supported treatments and intersectional feminism with consideration of race, class, ability, and gender-based inequalities. Her overall aim is to support and collaborate with clients in building lives they experience as worth living. Lizzie has received training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
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Natalia Garcia
Natalia graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a B.A. in psychology. At UC Berkeley, she worked as a research assistant examining genetic and psychophysiological underpinnings of stress. After graduation, she worked as a lead research coordinator at the San Francisco VA on a study examining the effects of pharmacological agents on the extinction of conditioned fear in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
At the University of Washington, Natalia’s research has primarily focused on studying transdiagnostic mechanisms underlying fear generalization, or the way in which fear spreads. In addition, her research examines sex differences in fear learning to better understand why women are at higher risk for anxiety and stressor-related disorders compared to men. She has received training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Prolonged Exposure (PE) and has expertise working with sexual minorities.
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Frances Aunon
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Katherine Manbeck
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Melissa Gasser
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Rosie Walker
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Adam Carmel
Adam Carmel, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. He received specialized training in DBT while completing a predoctoral internship at Duke University Medical Center and a NIMH T-32 postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington. Following his training, Dr. Carmel joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he was the Director of an outpatient DBT clinic and a DBT partial hospitalization program at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. While at Harvard, Dr. Carmel developed a seminar on evidence-based psychotherapy for psychiatry residents, psychology interns, social workers and medical students. He received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentorship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry in 2016. Dr. Carmel conducts research on the implementation of evidence-based treatments of suicidal behaviors, and developing models of DBT training for community-based clinicians.
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Heather Hawley
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Kate Comtois
Dr. Comtois’ career goal is to give suicidal clients and their clinicians their best chance to succeed. She has been working in the area of health services, treatment development, and clinical trials research to prevent suicide for over 20 years. Her graduate training was in community/clinical psychology and focused on achieving clinical ends through prevention and other system interventions in socio-culturally diverse populations. She has developed and adapted interventions to improve care and clinician willingness to work with suicidal patients including DBT, Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS), caring contacts via text message, and Preventing Addiction Related Suicide (PARS). She has developed DBT-ACES, a program to assist psychiatrically disabled individuals with BPD find and maintain living wage employment and self-sufficiency. Dr. Comtois’ research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the State of Washington, and the Department of Defense.
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Trevor Coyle
Trevor is currently a doctoral student at the University of Washington working with Dr. Marsha Linehan. He earned his BA in psychology from Harvard College in 2014, where he worked with Dr. Matthew Nock on a variety of research projects, including an honors thesis (co-advised by Dr. Justin Lehmiller) that employed the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide and the Minority Stress Model to explore suicidal ideation in gender and sexual minorities. Trevor’s primary research interest lies in evaluating existing models of care for acute suicide risk (e.g., inpatient hospitalization) and developing/testing novel approaches to managing acute suicide risk. Secondary interests include evaluating online interventions for suicidal thoughts and behaviors and investigating treatment outcomes for suicidal LGBTQ+ folks.
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Kevin Kuehn
Kevin is a doctoral student in the BRTC at the University of Washington working with Dr. Marsha Linehan. He graduated from Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit in 2012. While at WSU, Kevin volunteered on a variety of research projects, most notably as the project manager of a study investigating the prevalence and needs of undergraduate homeless students enrolled at WSU. Concurrently, he volunteered at the Youth Depression and Suicide Prevention Program (YDSP) at the University of Michigan with Dr. Cheryl King on a project evaluating the efficacy of an adolescent suicide prevention program.
Following graduation, Kevin was a Research Assistant in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University working on the Course and Outcome of Bipolar (COBY) study, a naturalistic, observational, longitudinal study of adolescents diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Kevin’s current research interests are in evaluating and developing efficacious community-based adolescent suicide prevention programs, suicidality among LGBT adolescents, and transdiagnostic approaches to understanding suicidal and self-injurious behaviors (e.g. emotion dysregulation, peer victimization, family invalidation, etc.).
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Sara Schmidt
Sara Schmidt, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at the University of Washington, where she collaborates with Dr. Melanie Harned at the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics on NIMH-funded research measuring implementation and effectiveness of the DBT Prolonged Exposure (DBT PE) protocol in the Philadelphia Community Behavioral Health managed care system. She is also the Assistant Director of the BRTC’s Treatment Development Clinic, and provides supervision and consultation in both DBT and DBT PE.
Dr. Schmidt earned her BA in Psychology from Wesleyan University, and her MA and Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Westchester Jewish Community Services in Hartsdale, NY. Dr. Schmidt is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician, and is licensed as a psychologist in the state of Washington.
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Andrea Chiodo
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Marsha Linehan
Marsha Linehan is a Professor of Psychology and adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and is Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, a consortium of research projects developing new treatments and evaluating their efficacy for severely disordered and multi-diagnostic and suicidal populations. Her primary research is in the application of behavioral models to suicidal behaviors, drug abuse, and borderline personality disorder. She is also working to develop effective models for transferring science-based treatments to the clinical community.
She has received several awards recognizing her clinical and research contributions to the study and treatment of suicidal behaviors, including the Louis I. Dublin Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Suicide, the Distinguished Research in Suicide Award (American Foundation of Suicide Prevention), and the creation of the Marsha Linehan Award for Outstanding Research in the Treatment of Suicidal Behavior established by the American Association of Suicidology. She has also been recognized for her clinical research including the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, the award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology (Society of Clinical Psychology,) and awards for Distinguished Contributions to the Practice of Psychology (American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology) and for Distinguished Contributions for Clinical Activities, (Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy).
She is the past-president of both the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy and of the Society of Clinical Psychology, Division 12, American Psychological Association. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychopathological Association and is a diplomat of the American Board of Behavioral Psychology.
She is the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) a treatment originally developed for the treatment of suicidal behaviors and since expanded to treatment of borderline personality disorder and other severe and complex mental disorders, particularly those that involve serious emotion dysregulation. In comparison to all other clinical interventions for suicidal behaviors, DBT is the only treatment that has been shown effective in multiple trials across several independent research sites. It has been shown both effective in reducing suicidal behavior and cost-effective in comparison to both standard treatment and community treatments delivered by expert therapists. It is currently the gold-standard treatment for borderline personality disorder, a disorder with a 8-10 suicide rate that afflicts between 4-6% of the population.
Linehan is the founder and the convener of both the Suicide Strategic Planning Group and the DBT Strategic Planning Group. Both groups meet annually or bi-annually at the University of Washington. The goal of the suicide group is to jump start the building of a field of suicide treatment research. The further goal of both groups is to bring together both expert, new and potential treatment researchers to collaboratively evaluate the state of current research in the respective areas, chart necessary studies to advance the development of more effective treatments and build a rigorous and cohesive next generation of young clinical-scientists.
She has written four books, including two treatment manuals: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder and Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder. She serves on a number of editorial boards and has published extensively in scientific journals.
Linehan is founder of Behavioral Tech LLC, a behavioral technology transfer group. She is also founder of Behavioral Tech Research, Inc., a company that develops innovative on-line and mobile technologies to disseminate science-based behavioral treatments for mental disorders. Learn more about the organizations founded by Dr. Linehan.
Linehan was trained in spiritual directions under Gerald May and Tilden Edwards and is an associate Zen teacher in both the Sanbo-Kyodan-School under Willigis Jaeger Roshi (Germany) as well as in the Diamond Sangha (USA). She teaches mindfulness via workshops and retreats for health care providers.
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Rod Lumsden
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Richard Ries
Richard Ries is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Ries serves as Associate Director of the University of Washington Addiction Psychiatry Residency Program. He is board certified in Psychiatry and certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Society for Addiction Medicine, and in Addiction Psychiatry (1993) by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Ries is Director of Outpatient Psychiatry, Dual Disorder Programs, and the Chemical Dependency Project at Harborview Medical Center. He is director of substance abuse education at the University of Washington Medical School and director of the Division of Addictions for the Department of Psychiatry. He has obtained NIDA sponsored clinical research grants in 1989 and 1997 to evaluate treatment outcome in dual disorders and also helped develop and participate in a NIDA sponsored training videotape (1996) on dual disorders. Dr. Ries was chosen to chair the first official Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP#9-1994) on dual disorders by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and is currently co-chair of the TIP#9 update. In 1999 he became co-editor of the key reference text Principles of Addiction Medicine, published by the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
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