Shannon Sauer-Zavala
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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
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!!
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 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?
April 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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-...
April 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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...
March 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Get ahead of the curve before BPD Compass is officially published with @newharbinger.bsky.social in 2026
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 💁‍♀️ ❤️
March 9, 2025 at 9:15 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
December 19, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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
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!
December 2, 2024 at 1:50 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
November 17, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Thank you for giving me a soap box (discussant role) to opine about the future of mental healthcare IMO
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
November 17, 2024 at 11:43 PM
The future if BPD treatment is bright
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
November 17, 2024 at 10:12 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
November 17, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Happening now in the good place (Loews Hotel 4th floor, congress B).
November 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Started my talk at #isspd23 by taking a pic of the audience. After days of walking along the beach and petting koalas, I felt like I needed to prove to my family that I did actually work on this trip
November 2, 2023 at 1:51 AM