Faculty
Behavioral Tech Institute prides itself in providing the highest quality training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy available. We can only offer this to you by providing the most experienced and trainers & consultants in the field of DBT. We honor each one of these individuals for their efforts and dedication to DBT and other empirically-based treatments.
Pittsburgh, PA
Samiram (Sami) Saghafi, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for adults and young adults. Dr. Saghafi has extensive training and clinical experience in evidence-based treatments for suicidality, emotion dysregulation, and complex mental health presentations.
Dr. Saghafi began her DBT career during her doctoral training in Philadelphia, providing comprehensive DBT across diverse clinical settings including community mental health clinics, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, and college counseling centers. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in New York focused on DBT for adolescents, further deepening her expertise in this modality.
Dr. Saghafi is the founder of Saghafi Behavioral Health Services, a practice dedicated to evidence-based therapy and supervision. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
