Katie Brazaitis, Ph.D. (she/her/hers), is a licensed Clinical Psychologist. She earned her BA in Psychology at New York University and her MA/PhD from the Catholic University of America. Brazaitis completed her predoctoral clinical internship at Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS).
Dr. Brazaitis is passionate about career sustainability. Her research, consultation, supervision, and training efforts focus on cultivating compassionate conceptualizations about so-called "difficult to treat" clinical populations, with a specific focus on borderline personality disorder. She believes this foundation is key for navigating the interpersonal complexities of clinical care and engendering true healing. She also emphasizes career sustainability via decolonizing compassion fatigue, moral injury, burn-out, and secondary stress, to destigmatize clinicians' own needs for care and promote community support and radical systemic change. Lastly, she weaves popular culture into her work whenever possible and recently published a paper on Using Disney Pixar's Inside Out as a model of Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Brazaitis served as a Clinical Psychologist at SAVACHS first in the acute psychiatry inpatient unit then in the outpatient mental health clinic. In 2021, she started her private practice. She has been a Clinical Associate Professor with the University of Arizona since 2017 wherein she earned the PGY3 Academic Teaching Award in 2023.