Dr. Stacy Shaw Welch

Stacy Shaw Welch, M.S., Ph.D, is a licensed clinical psychologist. She has extensive clinical experience working with children, adolescents and adults with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety, trauma (PTSD), depression, body focused repetitive behaviors and tic disorders. She has trained clinicians all over the world. Her solo private practice is in the Fremont area of Seattle. After launching several healthcare and academic projects in the Seattle community over the last many years, she is happy to be able to spend more time doing what she has always loved most: working with patients. Dr. Welch received her Bachelor of Science from Occidental college and her master and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from the University of Washington (www.psych.uw.edu). Dr. Welch is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, where she teaches on Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood disorders, and serves as an advisory board member in the Master of Arts in Applied Child and Adolescent Psychology: Prevention and Treatment program (www.appliedchildpsych.uw.edu). Dr. Welch also serves as a member of the honorary advisory cabinet at KCSARC (the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center; kcsarc.org). She is a member of the International OCD Foundation, the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, The Trichotillomania Learning Center, the Tourette Association of America, the Washington State Psychological Association, and OCD Washington. Dr. Welch co-founded the Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle (www.ebtseattle.com), a large outpatient mental health center serving hundreds of outpatients which included anxiety, DBT, eating disorder and psychiatry services. During her 15 years there, she served in various roles, including Executive Director. She founded the Anxiety and Child Anxiety Centers, as well as one of the first intensive outpatient programs for pediatric OCD in the region. Dr. Welch has also been part of the faculty at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where she worked in one of the largest studies on anxiety disorders in primary care to date (the CALM study). She has published in many prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA and JCCP. After 15 years at EBTCS, Dr. Welch helped launch the first regional non-profit clinic with Rogers Behavioral Health in Washington State (www.rogersbh.org). Rogers continues to provided partial hospitalization services for children, teens and adults with OCD and anxiety, as well as teens and adults with depressive disorders.