Dr. Reynolds earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Iowa, and received specialty training in the treatment of suicidal behavior and borderline personality disorder using DBT. Among DBT therapists in the NY Area, Dr. Reynolds has the distinction of being trained during a three-year, full-time fellowship at the University of Washington (Seattle) under the mentorship of Professor Marsha Linehan, the treatment developer. While there (1999-2002), Dr. Reynolds had a variety of clinical and research duties and served as a research therapist for a federally funded DBT clinical trial. Prior to joining CBCW in the Fall of 2007, Dr. Reynolds was Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry, where she directed a DBT training program, provided direct service, and conducted research on the emotional functioning of individuals with personality disorder. She was also awarded a competitive five-year grant funded by the National Institute of Health in support of her research and clinical work in the area of women's mental health and its relation to health behaviors and medical outcomes.
Dr. Reynolds is well-known in the national and international DBT community for her teaching and service. Together with Dr. Alec Miller, she is involved in an ongoing research project with the University of Oslo in Norway, in which suicide researchers are studying the efficacy of DBT for suicidal teenagers. She is a member of the Executive Board for the International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of DBT, and was elected to serve a two-year term as Program Chair for the Annual Meetings in 2008-2009. Dr. Reynolds has published both theoretical and empirical articles on DBT, personality disorder, and suicidal behavior. She regularly supervises and trains other mental health specialists, and is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work where she teaches a course in methods for evaluating clinical practice. She is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the American Association of Suicidology. To contact Dr. Reynolds, please click here.
