STEPHANIE VAUGHN, PSY.D.

Stephanie Vaughn, Psy.D., Clinical Psychologist-HSP is the founder of Psyche, PLLC, a boutique outpatient therapy practice located in Nashville, TN and Boston, MA.  She is an associate faculty member at Vanderbilt University in both the psychology and psychiatry departments.  She conducts Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with both adolescents and adults as a Board Certified DBT Clinician™ .  She is an expert on therapy-interfering behaviors and contingency management for oppositional behaviors in adolescents.

Dr. Vaughn has worked in the intensive PTSD program at the Department of Veteran Affairs with soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq and female soldiers suffering from Military Sexual Trauma where she implemented formal Prolonged Exposure (PE).  She is active in the teaching and supervision of DBT for Vanderbilt’s psychology & counseling students and doctoral interns, as well as psychiatry residents.  Dr. Vaughn has presented DBT workshops around the country for the last seven years and is a highly rated speaker.  She founded and currently runs Vanderbilt’s DBT Peer Consultation Group.  She has served as an expert consultant for a variety of hospitals, schools, and clinics around the country.