Shannon Sauer-Zavala
@shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Improving mental health treatment, especially for BPD, via research on personality-focused interventions
Visit me: https://konect.to/ssz
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Improving mental health treatment, especially for BPD, via research on personality-focused interventions
Visit me: https://konect.to/ssz
I just submitted my abstract to (hopefully) give an intro workshop on #BPDCompass at @nasspd.bsky.social's conference in Toronto this coming April.
You should submit something too: nasspd.org/abstract_sub...
Let me know in th comments what you're (hoping to) present!!
You should submit something too: nasspd.org/abstract_sub...
Let me know in th comments what you're (hoping to) present!!
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I just submitted my abstract to (hopefully) give an intro workshop on #BPDCompass at @nasspd.bsky.social's conference in Toronto this coming April.
You should submit something too: nasspd.org/abstract_sub...
Let me know in th comments what you're (hoping to) present!!
You should submit something too: nasspd.org/abstract_sub...
Let me know in th comments what you're (hoping to) present!!
Y’all! It’s gonna be awesome. Get your abstracts in!
NASSPD is accepting submissions for our 2026 conference in Toronto, April 24-25th! See nasspd.org/conference for conference information and submission portal.
Talks (individual, symposia, data blitz) and clinical workshops due Nov 1st. Posters due Dec 1st.
Hope to see you there!
Talks (individual, symposia, data blitz) and clinical workshops due Nov 1st. Posters due Dec 1st.
Hope to see you there!
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Y’all! It’s gonna be awesome. Get your abstracts in!
Why We're Like This Ep. 1: Shannon Sauer-Zavala on how to be less neurotic
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Why We're Like This Ep. 1: Shannon Sauer-Zavala on how to be less neurotic
I'm starting a podcast, duh
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September 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Why We're Like This Ep. 1: Shannon Sauer-Zavala on how to be less neurotic
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👋🏻 I am so excited to announce that I'll be hiring a postdoc at the University of Kentucky!
We study mechanism-focused (e.g., personality traits), transdiagnostic treatment development and personalization.
ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...
More details in the 🧵 👇🏻
We study mechanism-focused (e.g., personality traits), transdiagnostic treatment development and personalization.
ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...
More details in the 🧵 👇🏻
Psychology Post-Doctoral Scholar
The Treatment Innovation for Psychological Services (TIPS) Research Group in the Psychology department of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington, KY is seeking a fu...
ukjobs.uky.edu
September 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
👋🏻 I am so excited to announce that I'll be hiring a postdoc at the University of Kentucky!
We study mechanism-focused (e.g., personality traits), transdiagnostic treatment development and personalization.
ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...
More details in the 🧵 👇🏻
We study mechanism-focused (e.g., personality traits), transdiagnostic treatment development and personalization.
ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...
More details in the 🧵 👇🏻
It is obvi a weird time for science, psychological or otherwise.
The Coalition for the Advancement & Application of Psychological Science (CAAPS) is looking for YOUR ideas on how to best meet the moment with our initiatives.
🚨 Psychologists: Take our brief survey 👇
redcap.uky.edu/redcap/surve...
The Coalition for the Advancement & Application of Psychological Science (CAAPS) is looking for YOUR ideas on how to best meet the moment with our initiatives.
🚨 Psychologists: Take our brief survey 👇
redcap.uky.edu/redcap/surve...
CAAPS' Future Directions
redcap.uky.edu
July 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It is obvi a weird time for science, psychological or otherwise.
The Coalition for the Advancement & Application of Psychological Science (CAAPS) is looking for YOUR ideas on how to best meet the moment with our initiatives.
🚨 Psychologists: Take our brief survey 👇
redcap.uky.edu/redcap/surve...
The Coalition for the Advancement & Application of Psychological Science (CAAPS) is looking for YOUR ideas on how to best meet the moment with our initiatives.
🚨 Psychologists: Take our brief survey 👇
redcap.uky.edu/redcap/surve...
Did you know that your personality isn't set in stone? You can intentionally shape your traits to align with life you want. I spoke with 🌞 @CBSSunday Morning's Susan Spencer on the science of personality change and you can watch the segment right here: www.cbsnews.com/news/the-sci...
The science of redesigning your personality
Writer Olga Khazan, a lifelong introvert obsessed with work, was unhappy with who she was, and so vowed to redesign her personality by living outside her comfort zone – a journey she documented in her...
www.cbsnews.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Did you know that your personality isn't set in stone? You can intentionally shape your traits to align with life you want. I spoke with 🌞 @CBSSunday Morning's Susan Spencer on the science of personality change and you can watch the segment right here: www.cbsnews.com/news/the-sci...
Here's a run-down on BPD Compass:
18 sessions of Compass leads to sig. large reductions in self-reported #bpd, #anxiety, #depression, #PTSD
We also see improvement in negative affectivity, antagonism, and disinhibition #AMPD
We've trained 100s of therapists. Want to be next?
18 sessions of Compass leads to sig. large reductions in self-reported #bpd, #anxiety, #depression, #PTSD
We also see improvement in negative affectivity, antagonism, and disinhibition #AMPD
We've trained 100s of therapists. Want to be next?
April 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Here's a run-down on BPD Compass:
18 sessions of Compass leads to sig. large reductions in self-reported #bpd, #anxiety, #depression, #PTSD
We also see improvement in negative affectivity, antagonism, and disinhibition #AMPD
We've trained 100s of therapists. Want to be next?
18 sessions of Compass leads to sig. large reductions in self-reported #bpd, #anxiety, #depression, #PTSD
We also see improvement in negative affectivity, antagonism, and disinhibition #AMPD
We've trained 100s of therapists. Want to be next?
Spend an afternoon with me and learn our short-term, generalist treatment for borderline personality disorder, @BpdCompass
🌻 Friday May 16th, 2-5 PM ET
🌻 $99 for professionals, $10 for students (code: TRAINEE)
🌻 CE credits
🌻 Register here: personality-compass.com/bpd-compass-...
🌻 Friday May 16th, 2-5 PM ET
🌻 $99 for professionals, $10 for students (code: TRAINEE)
🌻 CE credits
🌻 Register here: personality-compass.com/bpd-compass-...
April 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Spend an afternoon with me and learn our short-term, generalist treatment for borderline personality disorder, @BpdCompass
🌻 Friday May 16th, 2-5 PM ET
🌻 $99 for professionals, $10 for students (code: TRAINEE)
🌻 CE credits
🌻 Register here: personality-compass.com/bpd-compass-...
🌻 Friday May 16th, 2-5 PM ET
🌻 $99 for professionals, $10 for students (code: TRAINEE)
🌻 CE credits
🌻 Register here: personality-compass.com/bpd-compass-...
I'm partnering with @newharbinger.bsky.social and Praxis to deliver a 5-week course on the Unified Protocol (UP)
✅ Treat Multiple Conditions with One CBT Framework
📅 Starting Tuesdays, April 1
Sign up today! www.praxiscet.com/events/simpl...
✅ Treat Multiple Conditions with One CBT Framework
📅 Starting Tuesdays, April 1
Sign up today! www.praxiscet.com/events/simpl...
March 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'm partnering with @newharbinger.bsky.social and Praxis to deliver a 5-week course on the Unified Protocol (UP)
✅ Treat Multiple Conditions with One CBT Framework
📅 Starting Tuesdays, April 1
Sign up today! www.praxiscet.com/events/simpl...
✅ Treat Multiple Conditions with One CBT Framework
📅 Starting Tuesdays, April 1
Sign up today! www.praxiscet.com/events/simpl...
Now is a good time to remind folks that proven mental healthcare should not be behind a paywall...
People with #BPD looking for resources → download the BPD Compass workbook
Providers who work with BPD (so, all y'all) → download the BPD Compass workbook
👉 personality-compass.com/bpd-compass 👈
People with #BPD looking for resources → download the BPD Compass workbook
Providers who work with BPD (so, all y'all) → download the BPD Compass workbook
👉 personality-compass.com/bpd-compass 👈
March 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Now is a good time to remind folks that proven mental healthcare should not be behind a paywall...
People with #BPD looking for resources → download the BPD Compass workbook
Providers who work with BPD (so, all y'all) → download the BPD Compass workbook
👉 personality-compass.com/bpd-compass 👈
People with #BPD looking for resources → download the BPD Compass workbook
Providers who work with BPD (so, all y'all) → download the BPD Compass workbook
👉 personality-compass.com/bpd-compass 👈
⭐️ NEWS! ⭐️
We've got an Introductory Webinar for BPD Compass coming up! Friday May 16th (2-5 ET). 3 CEs for psychologists. Learn more & register: personality-compass.com/bpd-compass-...
$99 for professionals, $10 for students with code TRAINEE
Hope to see you there 💁♀️ ❤️
We've got an Introductory Webinar for BPD Compass coming up! Friday May 16th (2-5 ET). 3 CEs for psychologists. Learn more & register: personality-compass.com/bpd-compass-...
$99 for professionals, $10 for students with code TRAINEE
Hope to see you there 💁♀️ ❤️
March 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
⭐️ NEWS! ⭐️
We've got an Introductory Webinar for BPD Compass coming up! Friday May 16th (2-5 ET). 3 CEs for psychologists. Learn more & register: personality-compass.com/bpd-compass-...
$99 for professionals, $10 for students with code TRAINEE
Hope to see you there 💁♀️ ❤️
We've got an Introductory Webinar for BPD Compass coming up! Friday May 16th (2-5 ET). 3 CEs for psychologists. Learn more & register: personality-compass.com/bpd-compass-...
$99 for professionals, $10 for students with code TRAINEE
Hope to see you there 💁♀️ ❤️
I could not be prouder of my TWO students in the Match this cycle - both matched to top sites!
Nicole Stumpp is headed to the Durham VA
Martina Fruhbauerova is off to Brown
Thrilled. I am thrilled.
Nicole Stumpp is headed to the Durham VA
Martina Fruhbauerova is off to Brown
Thrilled. I am thrilled.
February 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I could not be prouder of my TWO students in the Match this cycle - both matched to top sites!
Nicole Stumpp is headed to the Durham VA
Martina Fruhbauerova is off to Brown
Thrilled. I am thrilled.
Nicole Stumpp is headed to the Durham VA
Martina Fruhbauerova is off to Brown
Thrilled. I am thrilled.
Happy Christmas to me!
BPD Compass leads to significant improvements in neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientious and effects were mostly medium and large.
Doesn’t matter if you use the PID-5, the BFI-2, or the FFBI.
For criterion A stans, LPFS improves significantly too
BPD Compass leads to significant improvements in neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientious and effects were mostly medium and large.
Doesn’t matter if you use the PID-5, the BFI-2, or the FFBI.
For criterion A stans, LPFS improves significantly too
December 19, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Happy Christmas to me!
BPD Compass leads to significant improvements in neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientious and effects were mostly medium and large.
Doesn’t matter if you use the PID-5, the BFI-2, or the FFBI.
For criterion A stans, LPFS improves significantly too
BPD Compass leads to significant improvements in neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientious and effects were mostly medium and large.
Doesn’t matter if you use the PID-5, the BFI-2, or the FFBI.
For criterion A stans, LPFS improves significantly too
A 30 second primer on why we need a Dimensional TREATMENT System to make psychotherapy more potent, parsimonious, and personalizable.
December 10, 2024 at 9:15 PM
A 30 second primer on why we need a Dimensional TREATMENT System to make psychotherapy more potent, parsimonious, and personalizable.
My student, Martina Fruhbauerova won the Morgan T. Sammons Doctoral Student Award for her project examining a mechanism-focused (hopelessness, perceived burdensomeness, and thwarted belongingness), single-session intervention for suicidal thoughts/behaviors!
www.nationalregister.org/fruhbauerova...
www.nationalregister.org/fruhbauerova...
Martina Fruhbauerova Named 2024 Morgan T. Sammons Doctoral Student Award Winner - National Register
The National Register honors students with a $5,000 stipend to further the development of a clinically oriented research project.
www.nationalregister.org
December 2, 2024 at 9:14 PM
My student, Martina Fruhbauerova won the Morgan T. Sammons Doctoral Student Award for her project examining a mechanism-focused (hopelessness, perceived burdensomeness, and thwarted belongingness), single-session intervention for suicidal thoughts/behaviors!
www.nationalregister.org/fruhbauerova...
www.nationalregister.org/fruhbauerova...
144 mental health professionals have already signed up for our BPD Compass Webinar happening THIS FRIDAY!!!
That means we have 56 spots left. Sign up today for a smoking hot deal ($25 off registration with code MONDAY)!
Always free for trainees with code FREE4TRAINEES
🔗 in the comments!
That means we have 56 spots left. Sign up today for a smoking hot deal ($25 off registration with code MONDAY)!
Always free for trainees with code FREE4TRAINEES
🔗 in the comments!
December 2, 2024 at 1:50 PM
144 mental health professionals have already signed up for our BPD Compass Webinar happening THIS FRIDAY!!!
That means we have 56 spots left. Sign up today for a smoking hot deal ($25 off registration with code MONDAY)!
Always free for trainees with code FREE4TRAINEES
🔗 in the comments!
That means we have 56 spots left. Sign up today for a smoking hot deal ($25 off registration with code MONDAY)!
Always free for trainees with code FREE4TRAINEES
🔗 in the comments!
Reposted by Shannon Sauer-Zavala
go.bsky.app/TwHBMQi I started a personality psychology starter pack. If I missed you or put you here by mistake, please reach out.
November 15, 2024 at 12:18 PM
go.bsky.app/TwHBMQi I started a personality psychology starter pack. If I missed you or put you here by mistake, please reach out.
Reposted by Shannon Sauer-Zavala
📣 Our Clinical Program at the University of Washington is hiring a new Clinic Director! If you're passionate about shaping the clinical training of the next generation, please consider applying!
For more info: apply.interfolio.com/159126
Please share broadly!
For more info: apply.interfolio.com/159126
Please share broadly!
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November 20, 2024 at 9:53 PM
📣 Our Clinical Program at the University of Washington is hiring a new Clinic Director! If you're passionate about shaping the clinical training of the next generation, please consider applying!
For more info: apply.interfolio.com/159126
Please share broadly!
For more info: apply.interfolio.com/159126
Please share broadly!
We came, we ABCTed, and now we’re headed back to Kentucky.
Glad these youths let me tag along with them to feel relevant 🙃
@abctnow.bsky.social
Glad these youths let me tag along with them to feel relevant 🙃
@abctnow.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 11:44 PM
We came, we ABCTed, and now we’re headed back to Kentucky.
Glad these youths let me tag along with them to feel relevant 🙃
@abctnow.bsky.social
Glad these youths let me tag along with them to feel relevant 🙃
@abctnow.bsky.social
CBT therapists should care about dimensional models of personality/psychopathology.
Thank you to Anton Mays, Alex Hines, @dsamuel.bsky.social Katherine Hein & Nicole Stumpp for bringing this point home.
@abctnow.bsky.social
Thank you to Anton Mays, Alex Hines, @dsamuel.bsky.social Katherine Hein & Nicole Stumpp for bringing this point home.
@abctnow.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 11:43 PM
CBT therapists should care about dimensional models of personality/psychopathology.
Thank you to Anton Mays, Alex Hines, @dsamuel.bsky.social Katherine Hein & Nicole Stumpp for bringing this point home.
@abctnow.bsky.social
Thank you to Anton Mays, Alex Hines, @dsamuel.bsky.social Katherine Hein & Nicole Stumpp for bringing this point home.
@abctnow.bsky.social
What a privilege to present along side @katieleedg.bsky.social Julianne Wilner, Ramya Ramadurai and Sonya Varma with the incomparable Jen Cheavens as our discussant!
@abctnow.bsky.social
@abctnow.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 10:12 PM
What a privilege to present along side @katieleedg.bsky.social Julianne Wilner, Ramya Ramadurai and Sonya Varma with the incomparable Jen Cheavens as our discussant!
@abctnow.bsky.social
@abctnow.bsky.social
So proud of my student, Maddie Kushner, who closed down @abctnow.bsky.social by chairing her first symposium and giving a phenomenal talk on using network models to identify idiographic mechanisms that maintain symptoms of #BPD
November 17, 2024 at 9:02 PM
So proud of my student, Maddie Kushner, who closed down @abctnow.bsky.social by chairing her first symposium and giving a phenomenal talk on using network models to identify idiographic mechanisms that maintain symptoms of #BPD
Happening now in the good place (Loews Hotel 4th floor, congress B).
November 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Happening now in the good place (Loews Hotel 4th floor, congress B).
We're one week away from our virtual @BpdCompass workshop (hosted by @matt_southward_ & me). We still have spots - sign up today!
Friday 12/8 ⭐️ 2-5pm Eastern
3 CEs for professionals ($75)
Free for trainees (use code FREE4STUDENTS)
www.bpdcompass.com/event-detail...
Friday 12/8 ⭐️ 2-5pm Eastern
3 CEs for professionals ($75)
Free for trainees (use code FREE4STUDENTS)
www.bpdcompass.com/event-detail...
December 1, 2023 at 7:29 PM
We're one week away from our virtual @BpdCompass workshop (hosted by @matt_southward_ & me). We still have spots - sign up today!
Friday 12/8 ⭐️ 2-5pm Eastern
3 CEs for professionals ($75)
Free for trainees (use code FREE4STUDENTS)
www.bpdcompass.com/event-detail...
Friday 12/8 ⭐️ 2-5pm Eastern
3 CEs for professionals ($75)
Free for trainees (use code FREE4STUDENTS)
www.bpdcompass.com/event-detail...
Reposted by Shannon Sauer-Zavala
For any ABCTers here but not on twitter:
2:30pm Friday - We'll be discussing what BPD is, how those definitions impact treatment, & where we need to prioritize new research!
Featuring Katie Dixon-Gordon, Skye Fitzpatrick, @shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social, & @aidangcw.bsky.social (+ my large head)!
2:30pm Friday - We'll be discussing what BPD is, how those definitions impact treatment, & where we need to prioritize new research!
Featuring Katie Dixon-Gordon, Skye Fitzpatrick, @shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social, & @aidangcw.bsky.social (+ my large head)!
November 16, 2023 at 1:55 AM
For any ABCTers here but not on twitter:
2:30pm Friday - We'll be discussing what BPD is, how those definitions impact treatment, & where we need to prioritize new research!
Featuring Katie Dixon-Gordon, Skye Fitzpatrick, @shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social, & @aidangcw.bsky.social (+ my large head)!
2:30pm Friday - We'll be discussing what BPD is, how those definitions impact treatment, & where we need to prioritize new research!
Featuring Katie Dixon-Gordon, Skye Fitzpatrick, @shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social, & @aidangcw.bsky.social (+ my large head)!