Tracey Smith, PhD.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine
Associate Director for Improving Clinical Care, South Central Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center
"I am profoundly grateful to have had Dr. Benjamin as my graduate school mentor and clinical supervisor. The training I received from her helped me grow professionally and personally in ways that are hard to express in a few sentences! To this day, I use my training in coding interpersonal behavior, case formulation, and research. Dr. Benjamin's training enabled me to work willingly and successfully with many "challenging" patients who had personality disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, or other forms of severe psychopathology. I am now a
clinical psychologist, psychotherapy researcher, and implementation scientist involved in promoting the integration of research evidence into national mental healthcare policy and practice for one of the largest integrated public health care systems in the United States. Sixteen years later, I can whole heartedly attest, that of all the professional training I have received, what I cherish and value the most is what I learned from Dr. Benjamin."