Dr. Jennie Lacy is a licensed psychologist who received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. She completed her Clinical Psychology Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of California, San Diego at the UCSD Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research.

Jennie has been working with adolescent and adult clients since 2004 and has extensive specialization in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Family Based Therapy (FBT) or the Maudsley Method for eating disorders, and Family Systems Theory, which led to continued training in various forms of family and couple therapies.

She enjoys working with clients navigating anxiety, depression, and major life transitions, as well as those seeking more meaning, deeper connections with others, and pursuing healing above and beyond coping and surviving. She works with families and couples on a range of concerns.

Jennie has worked at all levels of care for eating disorders. She has designed and implemented Family and Community Support Programs for several facilities providing inpatient, residential, PHP and intensive outpatient services. One of her passions in working with individuals with eating disorders and their families, has been to help them understand the nature of eating disorders and to feel more supported, involved, and empowered in treatment and long-term recovery. 

She has kept an outpatient practice since 2013 and joined Durham DBT full time in 2018. She believes strongly in the use of empirically supported treatments and values an integrative approach to therapy, pulling from various modalities as needed, thereby providing individualized treatment. Therapeutically she strives to remain collaborative with clients in her approach to treatment, and strongly believes in the importance of non-judgment and the role it plays in one’s ability to approach change. She is LGBTQ+ affirming and all persons are welcome. She works with teens, adults, families, adult families, and couples.

Being a lifelong learner, she’ll happily nerd out with you about recent articles she’s read, the nervous system, and/or music.