Sabrina Darrow

Sabrina Darrow is a psychologist who works with teens, young adults and their families. She practices dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a comprehensive treatment that combines psychotherapy sessions with teaching skills for handling experiences that bring up intense or difficult emotions. Her work includes individual, family and group therapy.

Darrow directs the UCSF Wavefront Program, which provides the latest treatments to improve emotion regulation for young people experiencing mood disorders, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, conditions related to trauma and obsessive-compulsive disorders. The program also features professional training and research to support better care and understanding of these issues. Darrow leads the evaluation and research arms of Wavefront's dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy clinics. She is leading a collaboration with the San Francisco Children, Youth and Families System of Care to implement and evaluate DBT for adolescents in the public mental health system.

Darrow earned her bachelor of arts degree in psychology and doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. She completed an internship at the Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Her postdoctoral studies included UCSF's clinical services research training program.

Darrow is a member of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, Association for Psychological Science and Association for Behavior Analysis International.

In her free time, Darrow loves exploring the outdoors.