Joan E. Sarnat, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Berkeley, California. She is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. She is a member of APA, The National Register, The International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and The International Psychoanalytic Association.

Dr. Sarnat has lectured widely on psychoanalytic supervision and has published in numerous journals, including Psychoanalytic Psychology; Psychotherapy: Research, Practice, Training; Psychoanalytic Dialogues; and The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She coauthored with Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea The Supervisory Relationship: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach (2001).