Minnesota, US
Donna Pattie, MSW, LICSW, is a Linehan Board Certified Clinicianโข, contract trainer and consultant with Behavioral Tech Institute, and DBT Trainer and Consultant at Sagent Behavioral Health. She has 36 years of experience in behavioral healthcare and has specialized in Dialectical Behavior Therapy since 2011. Donna has extensive experience delivering, supervising, training, and implementing comprehensive DBT across adult and adolescent/family programs. She served as a DBT Team Lead for a dozen years and led her program through Linehan Board Program Certification, continuing to lead the program following certification. She has more than a decade of experience providing DBT Prolonged Exposure (DBT PE) and continues to provide DBT PE consultation to clinicians. She has trained and consulted with clinicians, supervisors, and DBT teams across outpatient settings.
At Sagent, Donna provides organization-wide clinical training and consultation focused on translating evidence-based practices into effective clinical care. She develops training curricula and competency frameworks, supports treatment implementation, and consults with clinical leaders on strengthening quality, fidelity, and sustainable implementation. She also leads DBT training and development and oversees graduate internship education within DBT programs. Prior to joining Sagent, Donnaโs career included evidence-based clinical practice, clinical supervision, program leadership, teaching, and quality improvement across public and private behavioral healthcare settings. She served as Clinical Team Lead for an interdisciplinary outpatient PTSD program at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where she provided psychotherapy, supervised graduate clinicians, and served as a quality-improvement coordinator and trainer.
Her areas of expertise include comprehensive DBT, DBT PE, DBT-SUD, trauma treatment, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, clinical supervision and consultation, clinician training and development, and implementation of evidence-based practices.