Emily Sachs

Emily Sachs, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a consultant to the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. She has provided trauma treatment for adults including refugees, veterans, survivors of sexual abuse and assault, and crisis management professionals, and held staff positions at the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. She has coordinated research programs in U.S. immigration detention centers and abroad in India. Dr. Sachs has created clinical curriculums for medical professionals at the VA and doctoral students at the Wright Institute, and regularly provides trauma-informed trainings for newsrooms and other journalism organizations. She has been treating journalists in her private practice since 2015.