Dr. Sheila Crowell is a Professor of Psychology and she directs the Oregon Research for Clinical Health Innovations in Developmental Science (ORCHIDS) lab at the University of Oregon. Her team is conducting innovative research at the intersection between clinical and developmental psychology to discover how psychological struggles emerge and change across the lifespan. Much of her work focuses on researching and preventing extreme psychological suffering. In particular, she seeks to understand some of the most vulnerable and misunderstood populations, including those who engage in self-inflicted injury, and those who struggle with personality disorders, substance use, stress or trauma, abuse and maltreatment histories, chronic depression, or who have died by suicide. Dr. Crowell is also a licensed clinical psychologist and the co-founder of the Utah Center for Evidence Based Treatment, where she sees clients, participates in a DBT consultation team, and engages in expert consulting.

Dr. Brad Simpson earned his bachelor’s degree at Brigham Young University, Idaho. He followed his passion for social work by pursuing his master’s degree from the University of Utah and his doctoral degree in social work from the University of Tennessee. Brad specializes in working with couples, families, and adolescents in acute inpatient, intensive outpatient, and residential settings. He is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and provides trainings for mental health professionals across the United States. He has served in several administrative capacities most recently as executive director of a fully adherent DBT program. He is an associate professor and director of the Bachelor of social work program at Southern Utah University. He is currently the director of research and development at Sunrise Residential Treatment Center a fully adherent DBT program and the founder and owner of 3rd Wave Counseling and Consulting.

Dr. Brook is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice (amarabrookphd.com and sfmindmatters.com) serving clients in California, Colorado, and Florida. Her passion is helping people understand themselves through psychological assessment and reach their goals using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) tailored to be optimally effective for their neurotype and other dimensions of diversity. She has particular interest in autism and ADHD.
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She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard, PhD from the University of Michigan, and advanced clinical training from CSPP. She has completed numerous advanced trainings in Psychological Assessment, DBT, and CBT and am Board Certified in Behavioral & Cognitive Psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). In the past, she served as Director of Postdoctoral Training, Supervisor, DBT Team Coordinator, and Embedded Psychologist in Emergency Medicine at Kaiser Santa Clara. She also provided clinical services at Kaiser, VA medical centers, and schools. She was also a psychology professor at Santa Clara University and taught a graduate-level DBT course there.

Lauren Yadlosky, Ph.D. is a DBT clinician and staff psychologist specializing in working with high-risk, multi-problem youth, young adults, and families including eating disorders. She is passionate about integrating families into treatment to improve outcomes for the whole system. An important part of this work includes providing high quality, evidence-based services to chronically underserved populations. Her research program and clinical work seek to synthesize intersectionality with psychological science and practice. Dr. Yadlosky received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Marquette University. She completed her predoctoral internship at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY followed by a postdoctoral clinical/research fellowship in the 3East Boys Residential DBT Program at McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical school.

Charlotte Thomas is a Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed to practice in Oregon, Washington, and California with fifteen years of experience in the field of psychotherapy. She is a Certified DBT Clinician™ through the Linehan Board of Certification. Charlotte is a graduate of Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University with a Masters in Social Work, and Davidson College with a Bachelors in Psychology and a Concentration in Neuroscience. Charlotte holds expertise in using Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy to treat individuals experiencing forms of anxiety, depression, trauma, substance abuse, and borderline personality disorder and with specialization in eating disorders. She is particularly passionate about working with complex, multi-diagnostic clients and those who have already attempted multiple treatment episodes without long-standing improvement. Charlotte is currently serving as Co-Chair of the DBT SIG (Special Interest Group) of the Academy of Eating Disorders. Charlotte uses a unique blend of radical genuineness, warmth, and empathy to help her therapy and consultation clients generate change and build towards a life worth living.

Dr. White received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Rhode Island and was a fellow at Harvard Medical School before moving to Oregon, where he is a licensed psychologist. His clinical areas of expertise include suicide, clinical risk management, adolescent and family treatment, dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, behavioral therapy, and implementation of evidence-based practice. He has extensive research and evaluation experience on both coasts, with specific interests in community-based program evaluation, multilevel modeling, frequent use of psychiatric emergency services, and general evaluation of evidence-based practice. As an advocate of the scientist/practitioner model, he has a strongly held value and passion for the adherent delivery of effective evidence-based treatment, especially for individuals who have experienced barriers to accessing mental health services
In addition to clinical services, Dr. White trains internationally on suicide prevention and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and specializes in the implementation of DBT with non-dominant and native populations. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor within the Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology within the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, is board certified in DBT through the Linehan Board of Certification, holds ABPP Board Certification in Clinical and Behavioral Psychology, volunteers as a journal reviewer, and volunteers in multiple capacities for the Linehan Board of Certification.
He is co-owner of the Portland DBT Institute (PDBTI) and serves as the Associate Director. At PDBTI he works with the management team to set program policy, provides clinical services to adults, adolescents, and families, oversees research and evaluation services, and provides supervision to psychologist residents and clinical staff.

Amy Kalasunas (she/her) , LPCC-S, NCC, is a behaviorist with over 20 years of experience working within evidence-based treatment models. She has extensive training in DBT and its sub-specialty area of DBT for Eating Disorders, as well as DBT- PE, and supervision and consultation team adherence practices.
Amy is a DBT LBC Certified Clinician, functions as co-chair of the DBT LBC Publications Committee and serves on the DBT-LBC Communications Committee. A sought-after presenter, Kalasunas consistently achieves the highest evaluation scores when presenting two- and three-day workshops on the topics of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT and Complex Eating Disorders, and DBT-Prolonged Exposure and Eating Disorders.
Her clinical work has included developing, implementing, and evaluating program outcomes across the spectrum of clinical milieus, including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, Partial Hospitalization Programs, Intensive Outpatient Programs, community mental health agencies, specialty practice clinics, and private practice offices.

After a career in human rights and social change organizing, and graduating from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Cristina Moon embarked on three years of monastic training at Daihonzan Chozen-ji, a Rinzai Zen temple and martial arts dojo in Honolulu. Now in residence as a priest at Chozen-ji, she works with individuals and organizations to develop a fighting spirit and the ability to stay calm in the midst of chaos.

Melanie Harned, Ph.D., is a Psychologist and Coordinator of the DBT Program at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle Division as well as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Harned has previously worked as the Research Director of Dr. Marsha Linehan’s Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington (2006-2018), Director of Research and Development for Behavioral Tech, LLC (2014-2017), and Director of Behavioral Tech Research, Inc. (2013-2016). Dr. Harned’s research focuses on the development and evaluation of the DBT Prolonged Exposure (DBT PE) protocol for PTSD as well as methods of disseminating and implementing this and other evidence-based treatments into clinical practice. She regularly provides training and consultation nationally and internationally in DBT and DBT PE and is licensed as a psychologist in the state of Washington.

Drew holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Southern Utah University, where her studies focused on research and statistics. She gained valuable clinical experience by working directly with adolescent clients in residential programs that adhere to Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A). Presently, she is a dedicated researcher at Sunrise Residential Treatment Center, which is a fully DBT-A adherent program. Her primary focus is on researching the efficacy of DBT-A in improving the lives of adolescents. She aims to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and best practices in the field. She is also currently pursuing a Master's degree in Data Science in Human Behavior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which allows her to combine her passion for psychology and statistics with the most up-to-date data analysis techniques.

Rachel Leah Kraus (she/her) is licensed clinical social worker in private practice (www.krauspsychotherapy.com) serving clients virtually throughout the state of Maryland for therapy and throughout the United States for executive function coaching. She works from a DBT-informed approach and has a special interest in working with clients who have a borderline and/or OCD diagnosis on top of an Autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD neurotype utilizing a neurodiversity affirmative approach.
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Rachel received her bachelor's degree in Psychology (Ecopsychology) from Mount Holyoke College and her Master's in Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She is a Social Work board approved supervisor through the State of Maryland. Rachel has participated in numerous advanced trainings in DBT, been providing DBT informed treatment since 2008 in various context including schools, residential treatment facilities, hospitals, and community mental health clinics before transitioning exclusively to private practice. She currently provides consultation to clinicians around the country and leads several consultation groups where she teaches clinicians skills on how to utilize the neurodiversity affirmative approach when interacting with clients.

Henry Boeh is a certified DBT clinician through the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, and a licensed psychologist. He works with both adult and adolescent clients and is the team leader of the Center for Behavioral Medicine Adolescent DBT Program. Henry is also assisting Milwaukee County with implementing a DBT program in the Milwaukee County Secure Juvenile Detention Center and is involved in training county therapists and co-facilitating DBT skills groups in the detention center alongside Running Rebels advocates. Additionally, Henry provides consultation and training to various DBT teams in Wisconsin.

Dr. Kim Claudat is an Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of the Adult Treatment Program at UC San Diego Health Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research. Dr. Claudat began her work at UC San Diego as a postdoctoral fellow. In addition to overseeing the adult program and providing clinical supervision, she provides individual, group, and family therapy. Her clinical and research interests focus on the connection between eating disorders and emotion regulation difficulties, particularly as this relates to commonly co-occurring disorders such as PTSD and Substance Use Disorders. She has received specialized training in Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD (CPT), DBT Prolonged Exposure for PTSD (DBT-PE), and DBT for Substance Use Disorders (DBT-SUD). Although her research and clinical work has mainly focused on eating pathology, she has experience providing evidence-based treatments to children, adolescents, adults, and their families, with a range of presenting psychiatric problems across various treatment settings.

Erica Tan, PsyD, received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Regent University. Presently, she is a licensed psychologist in Oregon and is an Adolescent and Family team member at Portland DBT Institute working extensively with at-risk teens who struggle with self-harming behaviors and suicidality. She also specializes in work with LGBTQ+ individuals and their families. As a senior member of the staff at PDBTI, she provides supervision to post-doctoral residents and clinicians on site. Erica is also a member of the training team and has led 2-day trainings and helped to co-lead the 5 day CITI intensive training sponsored by PDBTI. She also provides consultation to programs and other therapists. Erica has received intensive and advanced intensive DBT training with BTech in 2011 and 2012, additional 2-day DBT training, and mindfulness retreats. To support her practice as a psychologist who values empirically supported treatments, Erica is a DBT- Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician. She is currently supervised by Linda Dimeff, PhD.

Dr. Wisniewski (she/her) is an internationally recognized leader in eating disorder treatment and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, with more than 25 years of clinical and training experience. She has taught hundreds of workshops and continuing education seminars around the globe and has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and invited book chapters. Dr. Wisniewski has also provided consultation and training to eating disorder clinics around the globe.
In addition, she has earned some of the highest awards and accreditations in the industry. In 2013, she received the Outstanding Clinician Award from the Academy for Eating Disorders, demonstrating her leadership in the field and her commitment to providing the best solutions for those with eating disorders.

Kelsey Campbell is an accomplished educator with over eight years of experience in education and more than 15 years working for families facing a range of barriers including substance abuse and houselessness. For six years, Kelsey served as a high school Special Education teacher, working tirelessly to support students with behavioral disabilities. Recognizing the need for specialized interventions available at a school wide level, she transitioned into the role of a positive behavior specialist and social emotional curriculum developer in a middle school setting. In this capacity, Kelsey leveraged her expertise to develop a comprehensive curriculum based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills, which positively impacted the social-emotional well-being of countless students. Driven by her passion for racial justice and special education access, Kelsey approaches her work with a critical lens. She recognizes the importance of representation and dignity in the educational experience and actively works to ensure that all students see themselves reflected in the curriculum and classroom environment. Outside of her professional life, Kelsey is a new mother, an avid hiker and a burgeoning gardener.

Charity Chaney is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Supervisor at Mindfully (Mindfully.com) in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio area with over a decade of experience. As an Autistic ADHD and OCD clinician she is passionate about leveraging her lived experience and DBT knowledge to help clients that are also Autistic, ADHD, and/or OCD. She leads the DBT team and co-leads the Neurodiversity team at Mindfully which encompass her two passions in therapy. Her role as clinical director includes providing trainings, providing group and individual supervision, overseeing the DBT program and seeing individual and group clients.

She received her bachelor's in Psychology from Taylor University and her master's in mental health counseling from University of Cincinnati. She has attended trainings on DBT and Neurodiversity affirming care as well as led smaller trainings on both. In the past, she worked at South Bay Mental Health center as an in home and community based therapist.

Shelly Hindle is a Registered Clinical Psychologist in New Zealand working in the public health sector and running her own business. Shelly works in a large specialist eating disorder service where she was the lead developer of a comprehensive DBT programme for adults with co-morbid Anorexia Nervosa, across the residential, day programme and outpatient setting.
Other roles have included development and implementation of DBT initiatives within varied settings including DBT for adolescents, DBT in schools, emotion skills training groups, and DBT for co-morbid Eating Disorders for adolescents.
Shelly delivers training in DBT within New Zealand and internationally and provides team consultation for Behavioral Tech.

She has presented at international conferences and provided webinars for the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) and the Australia New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED). Shelly provides individual and team supervision in DBT and consultation on DBT for Eating Disorders and is the elected Co-Chair for the Suicide and DBT Special Interest Group for AED.
Shelly’s interests include training and supervision in DBT and implementation projects; particularly around adaptations of DBT (DBT for ED’s, Adolescents, DBT-PE, DBT in Schools etc).

Bonnie Rudder, LCSW, is part of the Adolescent and Family team at Portland DBT Institute. Her interest in DBT began before pursuing clinical education while providing direct care in an inpatient psychiatric hospital. She graduated with her masters degree in social work at Salem State University in Massachusetts where she went on to work with youth and their families in residential, in-home, and outpatient settings before relocating to the Pacific Northwest and joining PDBTI. She received intensive training for DBT from Charlie Swenson in 2015.

Lana Huizar was born to Mexican immigrants in search of a better life. She is a Marine Corps veteran, a Nationally Certified School Psychologist, a doctoral student in School Psychology at the University of Washington, and most importantly, a mom to an adventurous toddler named Mateo. Lana is committed to collective impact work grounded in data-based decision-making and cross-sector collaboration to empower the cradle-to-career pathway for marginalized communities with specific interests in economic security, mental wellness, and credential attainment. Her previous work experience has focused on equitable infrastructures and data-informed decision-making, school-wide culturally responsive tier 1 implementation, district-wide mental health supports, and statewide policy changes to improve P-20 pathways. Lana is passionate about the outdoors and enjoys trail running, skiing, and sharing a meal with family and friends!

Dr. Swenson is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UMass Medical School. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology at Harvard University, his medical degree at Yale University Medical School, received his psychiatry training at Yale and psychoanalytic training in New Haven, CT. For six years he directed the long-term inpatient psychotherapy programs for borderline patients at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center with Otto Kernberg as his mentor. He then studied DBT with Marsha Linehan and founded the first DBT program on the east coast, an inpatient application of DBT. After directing that program for about eight years, he moved to Massachusetts, became the Medical Director for the Department of Mental Health in Western Massachusetts and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UMass Medical School.
For thirty years Dr. Swenson has implemented, practiced, and supervised DBT in several countries. He has directed more than forty ten-day DBT intensive trainings and ten advanced DBT trainings. He has authored more than twenty articles and book chapters on DBT and borderline personality disorder, and he published a book in 2016, DBT Principles in Action, which has been called “the operators’ manual for DBT therapists.” Since September of 2017, Dr. Swenson has offered a weekly one-hour podcast, To Hell and Back, about using DBT skills to cope with life’s adversity. All podcasts are archived at www.charlieswenson.com. Four recent episodes, which included Amara Brook and Rachel Kraus as guests, focused entirely on the adaptations of DBT in the treatment of individuals with autism.
Dr. Swenson co-founded ISITDBT (the International Society for Implementation and Training of DBT) with Marsha Linehan in 1996 and was the first recipient of the Cindy Sanderson Outstanding Educator Award given by ISITDBT in 2004. He received the Alfred Stanton Award from McLean Hospital in 2015. Charlie is known in his teaching for his clarity, authenticity, humor, and warmth. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts and sees adolescents, adults, and families in his private practice of psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Dr. Anita Federici is a Clinical Psychologist and the Owner of The Centre for Psychology and Emotion Regulation, a Clinic specializing in the assessment and treatment of eating disorders, personality disorders, and trauma. She serves an Adjunct Faculty position at York University and is a distinguished Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED). From 2019 - 2022, Anita served as the Co-Chair for the Suicide and DBT Special Interest Group for the AED . Her work focuses on developing and adapting treatments for individuals with complex eating and personality disorders. Anita has had a considerable impact on the field through her leadership, advocacy work, and expertise and has provided more than 300 lectures, workshops, and invited talks. She has worked extensively with hospitals and community organizations across Canada offering team training, implementation support, and program development. Her work has been presented at international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals and invited book chapters.

Bryce Brooks, LCSW, started her social work career in Chicago where she worked in a research hospital, community elementary school, and an international adoption agency. She graduated with her Masters in Social Work from the University of Chicago in 2005 and went on to run her own therapeutic residential facility for inner-city youth, street outreach program, transitional living program, and outpatient mental health clinic. She was licensed in the state of Illinois and received Advanced Training in Complex and Insidious Trauma in LGBTQ+ Communities in 2010. After the Chicago "snowpocalypse" in 2011, Bryce decided to move home to her roots and warmer climates in Southern Oregon. Licensed in Oregon in 2011, she then went on to receive intensive training for DBT through BTech in 2013, as well as intensive training in the DBT Prolonged Exposure Protocol for PTSD by Dr. Melanie Harned, Phd in 2020. Bryce is honored to be working as a DBT therapist and skills trainer since 2013 and is currently the Team Lead at the Portland DBT Institute of Southern Oregon. In her spare time, Bryce is chair of the board for the Ashland Children's Theatre, sits on the board of 2nd Street Musicians, and has volunteered as Assistant Cross Country Coach at Phoenix High School. Bryce enjoys tromping through the woods with her dog and playing the viola in her community string quartet and orchestra.

Cheyene Horner (she/her) is a Mental Health Therapist at the DBT Institute of Michigan and serves as a research affiliate of Cleveland State University's Department of Psychology.

Linda Dimeff, PhD, is Director at Portland DBT Institute, CEO at Evidence-Based Practice Institute, and Clinical Faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. Dr. Dimeff has worked closely with DBT treatment developer, Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, for over two decades in developing and scientifically evaluating an adaptation of DBT for substance dependent persons with borderline personality disorder, and in generating numerous DBT training tools to facilitate the dissemination of DBT. Dr. Dimeff served as a BTECH trainer for over 15 years. In that time, she provided hundreds of trainings, intensives, and DBT systems implementations in a variety of public and private sectors. Dr. Dimeff is the 2011 recipient of the Cindy J. Sanderson Outstanding Educator Award from the International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of DBT. She is the primary editor of DBT in Clinical Practice.

Dr. Sylvia Davidson is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and DBT-LBC Individually Certified Clinician who developed Lyra Health's Blended Care DBT Program. Dr. Davidson has been actively involved in the DBT-LBC community over many years, including serving as a program reviewer and co-chair of DBT-LBC's Program Certification Committee. Dr. Davidson has over a decade of experience in DBT working with adolescents, adults, and families with a current focus on helping utilize and leverage technology to assist in improving treatment experience and outcomes in DBT.