Dr. Alicia Smart
PsyD (PSY 24516)
Clinical Director and DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician™
Dr. Alicia Smart is a licensed clinical psychologist and DBT Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician™ with more than 15 years of experience helping children, adolescents, adults, and families navigate life’s most difficult challenges. She specializes in evidence-based care for mood and personality disorders, trauma, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief and loss, and the complex challenges that come with emotional dysregulation.
As the founder and Clinical Director of Guidepost DBT in Corte Madera, Dr. Smart has built a thriving practice of over a dozen therapists, where she continues to provide individual therapy, family work, supervision, and advanced training for clinicians. She is also the co-founder of TheraHive, an innovative online platform that makes DBT skills education more accessible to learners worldwide.
Dr. Smart is recognized as an authority in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and related modalities. She is intensively trained in DBT, Radically Open DBT (RO-DBT), DBT-Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE), DBT for Children (DBT-C), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Emotion-Focused Psychotherapy. She has been invited to train clinicians at leading institutions including the Child Training Institute, Marin County Community Mental Health, Bayside Marin, Alta Mira Recovery Center, Apple Family Works, Community Options for Family and Youth, and MCAMFT.
Her teaching experience spans more than a decade and covers critical topics such as suicide risk management, adapting DBT for children and adolescents, treating trauma with exposure-based protocols, and integrating DBT into diverse clinical practices. She has also completed advanced professional trainings in cultural competence, ethics, ADHD, trauma, and autism-spectrum treatment, ensuring that her care is responsive, inclusive, and up to date with the latest research.
A graduate of New York University (B.A. in Psychology and Chemistry) and the California Institute of Integral Studies (Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology), Dr. Smart completed her clinical training at the Institute on Aging, South of Market Mental Health Services, and Marin County Community Mental Health.
In addition to her clinical and teaching roles, she has conducted research on anger management treatment in community settings and co-authored peer-reviewed publications in medical imaging. With over a decade of leading DBT skills groups and psychoeducational workshops, she is committed to empowering clients with practical tools that foster resilience, balance, and meaningful change.
Dr. Smart is a member of the American Psychological Association, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Marin Psychological Association, and the Dialectical Behavior Therapy National Certification and Accreditation Association.