Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala

Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala is a licensed clinical psychologist, professor, and internationally recognized personality scientist specializing in intentional personality change. Her work focuses on how enduring personality patterns—such as perfectionism, emotional reactivity, avoidance, and people-pleasing—develop, persist, and can be meaningfully changed using evidence-based strategies. She is a treatment developer and co-creator of transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral interventions used worldwide, including protocols targeting personality traits that underlie anxiety, depression, and personality disorders. Dr. Sauer-Zavala has led clinical trials, published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, trained clinicians globally, and regularly speaks on translating psychological science into p...