The Queen of DBT

Dr. Linehan appears to be serious, but she also has a great sense of humor despite the subject matter

 

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DBT
-Cost effective
-Effective with adults and adolescents
-Keeps patients out of hospitals
(Important for system recycling patients in and out of hospital beds). 

After speaking, everyone went up to speak with her and I was one of the first ones. I praised her for her positive contributions to the field and told her I love the Radical acceptance interconnected with therapy. What happened next???

A spiritual connection of two beings.
While a girl was asking her a question(interrupting mine) she said, "Just wait dear, Just wait." She smiled and held my hand for about 5-10 seconds.  She started to speak with another person interrupted our conversation.  It didn't matter because I had her hand-spiritually connecting with her being.  She had not come this far in her career without it. She mentioned practicing radical acceptance each day. 
It was a moment, a special moment, from a special clinician, and a special opportunity to meet her and discuss my DBT training and career opportunities out of the country.

Thank you Marsha for all your persistent and meaningful efforts!!!!
You're an inspiration!

As a therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, patient-Who could not be excited about listening to the brilliant Marsha Linehan, Ph.D and Director of Behavioral Research at the University of Washington Seattle. This is the only place in the country where research of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy(DBT)is being through random clinical trials.  She is the Queen because she invented the highly effective DBT in the late 1980s with a combination of behavioral science and mindfulness practice.

As a clinician, I remember first using this therapy about eight years ago in my first Mental Health position. We utilized it in a group therapy session with myself and a co-facilitator.  This therapy I absolutely loved because I felt so connected with this idea of MINDFULNESS, which now is turning out to be a big thing today in therapy and still very much present in religion. 

As a young clinician, I did not further explore DBT, but I did use pieces of it within my own therapy. It is one of my favorite therapies as it has qualities that people are receptive to and realistically use.  It's also a co-created experience between patient and therapist.