Katie Brazaitis, PhD
Supporting Career Sustainability in Healing Professions
Speaker on the 3Es:
Enhancing Competence
Expanding Self-Care
Engaging in Community-Care
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In her trainings and workshops on the Three Es – Enhancing Competence, Expanding Self-Care, and Engaging in Community Care – Dr. B pulls from her Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) orientation to support compassionate validation of the hardships clinicians face and promote effective coping to ensure sustainability.
She increases provider confidence through the development of new skills for understanding and managing high risk behaviors and navigating interpersonal pitfalls. Furthermore she emphasizes the importance of self-reflection, and community-care, as we are not meant to do this alone. Just like with her clients, Dr. B believes we all deserve the care and attention we need to not just survive, but to live and find meaning in our professional and personal lives.
Watch Dr. B in Action
Working with BPD: Tips and Tricks Authentic and Sustainable Care. Arizona Psychological Association CE Event August 9, 2023
Training Topics
For mental health providers, Dr. B teaches DBT skills to enhance clinical acumen and model how to teach these skills to clients. She currently emphasizes the following topics from DBT: dialectics, validation, boundary setting, mindfulness, states of mind, TIP, DEAR MAN, myths about emotions and roles of emotions, radical acceptance and more. Additionally, she provides in-depth training on understanding suicidal ideations and related behaviors and the techniques for conducting thorough risk assessments.
For all healthcare disciplines she presents compassion fatigue, burn-out, moral injury and coping through self and community care.
For the veterinary community, she teaches how to incorporate mental health awareness and self and community care early in one’s career.
About Dr. B
Katie Brazaitis, Phd (Dr.B, she/her) is an East Coast transplant, growing up in Maryland and earning her BA from New York University in New York City and her MA/PhD at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She moved to Tucson for her predoctoral Clinical Internship at the Southern Arizona VA HealthCare System, where she was later hired and worked in both mental health inpatient and outpatient clinics. There she honed her skills and talent for both individual psychotherapy and teaching.
In 2021 she started a private practice where she specializes in the treatment of personality disorders, suicidal ideations and related behaviors, and traumas across the lifespan. Her approach to therapy, while ultimately integrative, is rooted in the principles and interventions of Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
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Professional Outreach Chair
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UA Dept. of Psychiatry Clinical Associate Professor
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