Georganna Sedlar, PhD received her PhDin Clinical Psychology from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.Following her graduate education, she completed her pre-doctoral psychology internship at the Medical University of South Carolina with an emphasis in child trauma. Afterwards, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Davis CAARE Center, specializing in child maltreatment.The majority of her clinical work has been providing evidence-based practices for maltreated children.Specifically, she is trained in Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT) and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).
Currently, she is involved in various training, consultation, and workforce development activities. She teaches graduate level seminars; trains community mental health providers in evidence-based practices for youth through the CBT Plus Initiative; consults for the Foster Care Assessment Program (FCAP); and works at the Foster Care Clinic at Harborview Medical Center where she performs brief evaluations and consultations.She is working on various initiatives to promote the development of a competent workforce available to treat children.She believes her most important work has been teaching clinicians and students how to effectively use evidence-based practices in order to best serve their patients. Five years from now, she hopes that integrated care is considered the standard of care and access to high quality and effective mental services is available to many more patients, particularly in underserved areas.