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
The primary project on which the postdoc will work is a federally-funded clinical trial in which patients with BPD will received personalized treatment based on their personality elevations. You would be a study assessor or therapist!

Learn more here: reporter.nih.gov/search/kT63P...
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September 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The position will provide clinical hours for licensure + protected research time (and ample archival treatment data).
September 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Please share!
July 30, 2025 at 8:54 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
Personality Dimensions are, by definition, not categorical. They are processes that functionally maintain symptoms and can be targeted in treatment. So, this approach is complementary to process based therapies - just focusing on personality as the mechanism to target!
December 11, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Amazing!!! Come to my next workshop - prob will hold it in may. This clip is from the one I held last Friday and it’s on applying a personality based treatment called compass. Also, follow me on inst at @self.made.personality (I post there more) and even email me and I’ll send you some RCT articles
December 11, 2024 at 2:59 AM
and I learned how to add subtitles in pretty colors, so pls clap 🙃
December 10, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Thank you so much, Erik 🥰
December 7, 2024 at 1:48 AM
🤯
December 4, 2024 at 2:39 PM
I could not be more proud...so proud in fact that I hearted my own post :)
December 2, 2024 at 9:15 PM