Jared Michonski, PhD

Insurance:

While I am not contracted with any insurance companies, depending on your eligibility, your insurance provider may reimburse you for a substantial part of my fee as an out-of-network provider. Please contact your insurance provider to inquire about your out-of-network coverage for individual or couples therapy.

My Practice

I am committed to delivering interventions that have demonstrated efficacy, while also recognizing that effective treatment requires a strong relationship—one characterized by humility, understanding, compassion, and collaboration. I draw primarily from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and other cognitive-behavioral treatments, including exposure, mindfulness, and acceptance based strategies. In employing such approaches, I strive to work as a team with the client to individualize interventions in such a way that honors the person’s unique life story, cultural background, and personality. I aim to understand how a person’s particular strengths and community resources can be harnessed in navigating their way through emotional and behavioral challenges and experiences of suffering, as we journey together toward their life goals. Additionally, I incorporate theologically-informed interventions with those clients for whom such an approach is desired.

I enjoy working with adults, adolescents, and families who are experiencing difficulties in emotion regulation, suicidal ideation and self-harm behaviors, interpersonal challenges, anxiety, OCD, trauma-related conditions, and parenting difficulties. I also operate DBT skills group.

I am a clinical psychologist, licensed in the state of Washington, but also permitted to practice virtually in many states through PSYPACT (see participating states here). I am a board certified in DBT by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, an organization founded by the developer of DBT, Dr. Marsha Linehan.

I earned my doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Houston. As a graduate student, my primary area of research was the emergence of personality disorders in children and adolescents (see selected publications here). After completing my predoctoral internship at the University of Rochester Medical Center, I moved to Seattle to pursue specialized training in DBT. I completed a fellowship at the DBT Center at the Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle (EBTCS). I also served as a therapist in a research trial at the University of Washington that examined the effectiveness of DBT in treating teens navigating suicidality and emotion dysregulation, during which I trained with Dr. Marsha Linehan. In addition to studying DBT, my postdoctoral training included a specialization in behavioral parent training, with an emphasis upon supporting parents with teenagers experiencing significant difficulties with emotion regulation. 

Having trained with top-notch DBT clinicians and researchers, I work hard to provide high-quality treatment. I collaborate with Dr. Erin Miga in co-directing STAAR DBT, a collaborative of DBT clinicians and trainees that strives to provide high quality instruction and supervision in DBT, as well as effective treatment, in a warm and radically genuine community. I am a member of the Clinical Faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. I am a member of the American Psychological Association and the Christian Association for Psychological Studies. I continue to be involved in writing and research, primarily in the areas of borderline personality disorder and DBT.