Saskia Hostetler Lippy is a psychiatrist who holds as her core value humanism in medicine.  A proud member of the Cascadia Health team, she is working to ensure whole health for our most underserved members of society. She has worked in her career as a mental health care advocate and activist and identifies as a wounded healer. Interdisciplinary in her approach, she has been involved in the fields of psychiatry, therapy, psychoanalysis, community psychiatry, translational science, public health, peacebuilding, climate change adaptation, violence prevention and mental wellness.

In her twenty+ years of the clinical practice of psychiatry, she has honed a deep understanding of the human psyche and the forces/traumas which shape all of us from a young age. Her expertise is in early childhood trauma, depressive and anxiety disorders.  Her work is trauma-informed and strives for systemic cultural change.  She believes that it is only in our brokenness that we are truly healed.

She received a certificate in Psychoanalysis-Oregon in 2010 fron the Psychoanalytic Center, and a certificate in Public Health and Climate Change in 2022 from Yale University School of Public Health.