Eric Schmidt – New Roads Behavioral Health

Eric Schmidt has worked in the behavioral health field for the past 34 years. He has served primarily in CEO and key executive level positions for community-based behavioral health care/substance use disorder treatment organizations. Eric boasts both a Masters of Science in Social Work and a Masters of Business Administration.

Eric, as a Licensed Mental Health Therapist, personally provides clinical services utilizing a range of techniques and theoretical designs. In particular, he has extensive clinical experience working with addiction, borderline personality disorder, and trauma. He is one of only a few Linehan Board Certified Dialectical Behavioral Health Clinicians in the state of Utah.  He is also a Certified Prolonged Exposure Therapist through the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety Related Disorders.

Currently, he helms New Roads Behavioral Health, which he founded.  He has been the CEO there for fourteen years. New Roads primarily serves clients with severe persistent mental illness, addiction, and personality disorders.

Further, Eric taught at the University of Utah School of Social Work as an adjunct faculty for 16 years, where he taught a variety of clinical and professional development courses.

He is the Past-President and founder of the Utah Association of Behavioral Health Organizations. He also serves and has served as a board member for several national behavioral health and government organizations, tirelessly advocating for patients on national, local, and state levels.