Our Trainees
We are very excited to now have a DBT Training Clinic at Greenlake Therapy Group. All of our trainees are attending a year long DBT Intensive Training and will be receiving weekly supervision directly from our team.
Our training clinic is prioritizing accessibility and are accepting Adult DBT clients at a reduced rate and need based sliding scale.
Emily Baer
Emily (she/her) is a Master of Social Work (MSW) candidate studying at the University of Washington and enjoys working with adults and adolescents in evidence-based psychotherapy.
Emily’s professional background began with her bachelor’s degree training in recreational therapy, but more recently she has been trained in exposure response prevention (ERP), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and behavior activation (BA) techniques while providing care to adolescents and adults with OCD, anxiety, and depression related disorders. She also had a fulfilling volunteer experience extending emotional support and crisis intervention services as a phone worker at the King County crisis line. Though she has experience working at various levels of care including residential treatment, community mental health, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs, she is now excited to be training at an outpatient level here at Greenlake Therapy Group.
In her free time Emily enjoys figuring out puzzles, crafts and DIY projects, playing board games, and spending time with her dog, Stevie!
Shannon Donelan
Shannon (she/her) is a Master of Social Work (MSW) candidate at the University of Washington specializing in clinical social work. *She is a recent Seattle transplant having previously lived all her years in California.. While she is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she spent the last four years in northeast Los Angeles studying psychology and sociology at Occidental College.
This past year Shannon has worked at Crisis Connections as a crisis intervention specialist providing relief and resources for those residing in King(s?) County. Previously she worked in a variety of settings including a juvenile justice facility in the Seattle area and both an adult and a juvenile probation department in Marin County, California.
In addition, she has an extensive background working with children and adolescents and plans to focus her clinical work on those populations.
Shannon is passionate about cultivating radical acceptance and helping people build a life they feel is worth living. She believes that by teaching her clients new skills, she can expand their toolkits in order for them to live a life full of contentment and stability.
Beyond her academic and professional interests, Shannon loves finding new swimmable bodies of water to explore and spending as much time outside as humanly possible!