Professional Referrals

• How long has the professional been practicing?
• What experience do they have in treating borderline personality disorder?
• Have they undergone any specific training in treating individuals with BPD?
• To what extent do they believe individuals diagnosed with BPD can recover?
• Does the professional focus on any particular type of therapy? Is the therapy and Evidence-Based Practice? (SAMHSA EBP Resource Center)
• If the clinician utilizes Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), how much DBT specific training have they had? 2-Day Overview? Intensive 10 day training? Are they certified through the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification? (the treatment’s founder)
• If the clinician utilizes DBT do they have all Four Modes of Treatment? (Individual Therapy, Skills Group/teaching, Skills Coaching, Consultation Team) Are they “DBT Adherent” or “DBT Informed?”
• Are any specific diagnostic tests recommended?
• What are the responsibilities of the patient or client or family? What is the mental health professional responsible for?

• Do they prescribe any medications or have a prescriber they work closely with?
• Will a written treatment plan be created collaboratively with the client?
• How and when will treatment success be determined? Does the clinician use evidence-based outcome assessments?
• Do they accept insurance or offer their services on a sliding pay scale? Do they provide a “Superbill” to submit for “out of network” claims? Does the practice submit the claims or does the client submit the claims? Do they contract for “Single Case Agreements”?
• What professional organizations do they belong?
• Where did they attend school? What educational activities have they been involved with over the past several years?
• How will any after-hours emergencies be handled?
• Does the mental health professional collaborate with others in the practice?

Gateway Community Services

Jacksonville
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Gateway treats adolescents and adults with addiction and co-occurring mental illness. Starting in 2016, and continuing into 2017, Gateway has made a commitment to train staff and implement DBT in all their programs and receives ongoing consultation provided by Nancy Gordon, LCSW, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™

“From prevention to outpatient, detoxification to residential, family counseling to transitional care, our programs and services provide the comprehensive customized care each individual needs.”

Daniel Kids

Jacksonville
Website

Daniel’s Statewide In-Patient Psychiatric program (SIPP) provides children exhibiting the most severe symptoms of mental and emotional distress with intensive residential treatment over four- to six-month periods. Each child receives comprehensive care that includes individual, group, and family counseling, as well as psychiatric treatment, from a dedicated team of professionals, consisting of a psychiatrist, therapist, behaviorist, nurse, and recreation specialist.

Daniel for Kids staff received DBT training and consultation provided by Nancy Gordon, LCSW, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™ and Advanced Training, provided by Josh Smith, LCSW, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™ in 2017 and 2018.

University of Florida Department of Psychiatry, Jacksonville

8789 San Jose Blvd, Suite 305, Jacksonville, FL 32217
Website
Phone: (904) 383-1038
Email

Accept Insurance: Yes

Individual DBT Populations: Young Adult, Teens (ages 14-24)

DBT Skills Group: Requires the client to be in individual DBT Therapy. Young Adult, Teen, Parent Groups

Modes of Treatment Offered: Individual therapy, skills groups, phone coaching, consultation team. Telehealth available for individual and groups

Training history of team leader: Dr. Allison Ventura, PhD, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™, Intensively trained in October 2017 with Dr. Charlie Swenson

Other Specialties or Evidence Based Treatments Provided: Provider Dr. Deanna Seymour, DNP, PMHNP-BC, intensively trained DBT therapist, completed training in October 2017 with Charlie Swenson, provides medication management, individual therapy and adolescent group therapy. Dr. Allison Ventura also provides CBT and Psychodynamic therapy and works with Duval County School system.

UF Clinical and Health Psychology Practice

1600 SW Archer Road, #G901
Gainesville, FL 32610
Website
Phone: (352) 265-0294
Email: LisaKing@ufl.edu

Accept Insurance: Yes

Individual DBT populations: Adult/Teen/Substance Abuse (as a target behavior and not primary substance abuse treatment)

DBT Skills Group: Requires the client be in individual DBT therapy. Adult/Young Adult/Teen/Parent Support/Partner Support

Modes of Treatment offered: Individual Therapy/Skills Group/Consultation Team. *Our team is DBT-informed because we do not offer Coaching Calls.

Training history of team leader: Dr. King spent a year training in Minneapolis, MN at Headway Emotional Health Services, with a team of intensively trained therapists, on an adherent and state-certified program.

Other Specialties or Evidence-Based Treatments Provided: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
(OCD) and other anxiety disorders or phobias. Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). Prolonged Exposure (PE) for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Kristal Pollack, LCSW, Central Florida Counseling Center, LLC

905 S Lake Jessup Ave
Oviedo, Florida 32765
Phone: (407) 917-8462

Intensively Trained in DBT and currently under supervision by Nancy Gordon, LCSW, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™

Modes of Treatment offered: Individual Therapy/Skills Group/Phone Coaching/Consultation Team.

Populations: Teens and Adults.

Other Info: Also provides other evidence based treatments for other disorders.

See Kristal’s Psychology Today Profile

DBT Orlando

978 Douglas Ave, Ste 107
Altamonte Springs, FL 32714

P: 321-209-3359

DBTOrlando.com

E: info@dbtorlando.com

All therapists are intensively trained and are receive ongoing consultation from Nancy Gordon, LCSW, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™

Modes of Treatment offered: Individual Therapy/Skills Group/Phone Coaching/Consultation Team.

Populations: Teens and Adults.

CBT Pinellas, LLC.

11380 66th Street North, Suite #135
Largo, FL 33773
Phone: (727) 463-1938
Fax: (877) 240-7970
Email: beth@cbtpinellas.com

Team Leader: Beth Lewis, LMHC, Owner/Founder.

Training: DBT Linehan Certification, Intensive-Advanced Training 2013 under Kelly Koerner, PhD., and Charlie Swenson, M.D, 2014. Practice Ground Trainings c/o Kelly Koerner, Ph.D: DBT Certification Track, Behavioral Chain Analysis, Management of Suicidal Behavior, Exposure Procedures, CBT for Insomnia and other evidence based trainings proven effective in treating Borderline Personality Disorder. DBT Training, implementation and consultation initiated under Nancy Gordon. REBT Certified.

Modes of Treatment offered: Individual Therapy/Skills Group/Phone Coaching/Consultation Team.

Populations: Adults, Teens, Couples.

Programs: Support/information groups for parents. DBT for teens includes individual DBT therapy with concurrent skills training in the form of family skills training as opposed to attending formal skills group with peers. Qualified Clinical Supervision for Florida Licensure available.

Harmony Harbor Counseling

2014 Fourth Street
Sarasota, FL 34237
Website
Phone: (941) 312-6412
Fax: (941) 806-0447
Email: drstacy@harmony-harbor.com

Team Leader: Stacy Louk, Ph.D., LMHC, Founder. Training under Nancy Gordon, LCSW and Btech Foundational Training, 2012

Programs: Outpatient DBT for Adults; Graduate/Application Group; Qualified Clinical Supervision towards licensure.

Population(s): Adult; Plan to add adolescents and family programs in the future.

Lana Schneidt, LMHC, CAP

805 W Azeele St
Tampa, FL 33606
Phone: (813) 434-1594

Training: Lana has been intensively trained in DBT and is working towards Certification and is a member of the Tampa Bay Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy Consultation Team.  She also specializes in Substance Abuse Treatment.

Modes of Treatment offered: Individual Therapy/Skills Group/Phone Coaching/Consultation Team.

Populations: Adolescents and Adults

Tampa Bay Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Inc.

Physical Address: 219 Cook St. Brandon, FL 33511

Mailing address: PO Box 14 Brandon, FL 33509
Website: www.tbcforcbt.com
Phone: (813) 480-8482
Fax: (813) 651-4402
Email: nancy@tbcforcbt.com

Team Leader: Nancy Gordon, LCSW, Founder. Intensively Trained since 1998, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™ 2015

Team: All team members are DBT-Foundationally Trained, 3 are DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinicians™ or working on their DBT-LBC Individual Clinician Certification. Team consists of 5 Licensed therapists, 3 Registered Interns and 2 MSW Student Interns.

Programs: Outpatient comprehensive, full fidelity DBT; Family Education and Support Program, Graduate Groups; Couples, Family, Individual Therapy using other evidence-based treatments such as MAP-A, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy and more. TBC for CBT provides consultation and supervision to implement DBT to organizations and individiuals wanting to work towards certification, and is a Continuing Education Provider for DBT and other Workshops and Trainings. Qualified Clinical Supervision provided for LCSW and LMHC Registered Interns working towards licensure. TBC for CBT is a School of Social Work Internship Site.

Populations: Adult and Adolescent

Tampa Bay DBT Counseling Center

6938 West Linebaugh Ave. Suite 101.
Tampa, FL. 33625
Website
Phone: (443) 621-0976
Fax: (813) 769-9348
Email: kturnertampabaydbt@gmail.com

Team Leader: Kelly E. Turner, LCSW. Intensively Trained, 2014 with ongoing expert consultation with Cedar Koons, MSW LISW. Also Intensively trained in Radically Open DBT in 2016 by the treatment developer, Tom Lynch.

Other Behavioral Tech Trainings Include: 5 Day Foundational, 2004; Group Skills Training, 2004; Treating Adolescents with Multiple Problems, 2006; Updates to Emotion Regulation and Crisis Survival Skills in DBT, 2010; Treating People with Borderline Personality Disorders and Substance Use Disorders, 2014.

Programs: Outpatient Comprehensive DBT; Qualified Clinical Supervision for Social Work Interns; CE provider and workshops.

Populations: Adults, Adolescents.

Spectrum Recovery Solutions, LLC

9180 Estero Park Commons Blvd, #6
Estero, FL 33928
Website
Phone: (239) 595-3022
Fax: (239) 244-8404
Email: david@spectrumrecoverysolutions.com

Team Lead: David Llewellyn, LMHC, CSAT. Intensively trained in DBT 2013 All 4 Modes of Treatment.

Population(s): Adults, and may be adding teens

Programs: Specializes in addiction and provides DBT-S.

Heather Lawson, Psy.D.

233 Third Street North, Suite 200
Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Website
Phone: (212) 462-2035
Email: drhlawson@gmail.com

Accept Insurance: No

Team Lead: Dr. Heather Lawson, Psy.D.

Training history of team leader: Intensive B-Tech 2008

Individual DBT populations: Adult

DBT Skills Group: Requires the client be in individual DBT therapy.

Modes of Treatment offered: Individual Therapy/Skills Group/Phone Coaching/Consultation Team.

Boca DBT Consultants

7700 West Camino Real, Suite 402
Boca Raton, FL 33433
Phone: (561) 221-2238

Team: Dr. Henah Gupta, Dr. Michelle Greenberg and Dr. Celine Paillot

Program(s): Adherent OP DBT services, RO DBT Adult Groups, Advanced DBT Groups, and an Adult DBT informed Eating Disorders group.

Populations: Adolescent, Parent, Adult, Multifamily.

The Delray Center for Healing

403 SE 1st Street
Delray Beach, FL 33483
Website

Rachel W. Blogg, LCSW, PA

123 NW 13th Street, Suite 313
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Website
Phone: (754)-200-1328
Email: contact@rachelblogglcsw.com

Team Lead: Rachel Whipple Blogg, LCSW

Training: Intensively trained since 2009. DBT consultant for Lifeskills South Florida.

Populations: Adolescents and Adults

Programs: DBT skills groups and Individual therapy; DBT focused.

Lifeskills South Florida

1431 SW 9th Ave
Deerfield Beach, FL 33441
Website
Phone: (844) 749-1560 (office); (256) 466-6771 (Cell)
Email: Stacy.Flaquer@LifeskillsSF.com

Accept Insurance: Yes – Out of Network Only

Individual DBT populations: Adult, Substance Abuse.

DBT Skills Group: Requires the client be in individual DBT therapy. Adult/ Young Adult. Lifeskills South Florida provides Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) in both a comprehensive Linehan compliant 13-week programming, as well as auxiliary DBT groups such as Experiential DBT, Chemical Dependency DBT, Spirituality, & Mindfulness.

Modes of Treatment offered: Individual Therapy/Skills Group/Phone coaching/Consultation Team. Residential, and Intensive Outpatient.

Training history of team leader: Dr. Michelle Quilter, PsyD, CASAC, is the Director of DBT Programming at Lifeskills South Florida. Dr. Quilter has utilized DBT for over a decade and completed her intensive training the Linehan Institute in January 2017. Additionally, Dr. Quilter is one step away from becoming a Certified DBT Clinician by the Linehan Institute! She earned her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree in Community and Counseling Psychology from Marist College. She has held her certification as a Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor since 2006 and has received specialized training in both Forensic Psychology and Neuropsychology. She completed a dissertation on PTSD and TBI and possesses an interest in schizophrenia research, specifically regarding advances in pharmacological treatment. Dr. Quilter’s training has included working in an array of settings inclusive of inpatient hospitalization, emergency psychiatric care, substance abuse treatment centers, residential treatment, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient.

Other Specialties or Evidence-Based Treatments: Psychiatric and substance abuse treatment for adults who may be facing challenges with personality disorders, trauma, thought disorders &/or active addiction.

Other Info: Lifeskills is licensed by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (ACHA), Florida Department of Children & Families (DCF), Florida Association of Recovery Residences (FARR) and is CARF accredited. Our staff is comprised entirely of licensed and certified masters and doctoral level clinicians.

Sandy Pines Hospital for Children and Teens

Jupiter, FL
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Training: Sandy Pines’ staff received DBT Training in 2015 and 2016 from from Nancy Gordon, LCSW, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™.

Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital – DBT Program

1695 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 2516
Miami, FL 33136
Website
Phone: (305) 355-8016
Email: Claudia.Ranaldo@jhsmiami.org

Accept Insurance: Yes

Team Lead: Dr. Claudia Ranaldo, Program Director

Individual DBT populations: Teen, Latency

DBT Skills Group: Requires the client be in individual DBT therapy. Young Adult, Teen

Modes of Treatment offered: Individual Therapy/Skills Group/Phone coaching/Consultation Team.

Training history of team leader: Intensive training – 11/2014 and 05/2015.

Other Info: Psychiatric Evaluation and Medication Management also offered thru our affiliation with the Psychiatric Clinic for Children and Adolescents.

DBT by Design

4770 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 780
Miami, FL 33137
Phone: (305) 571-8411

Team: Holly Bedotto, PsyD. Members of the team are Foundationally Trained.

Training: Dr. Bedotto is intensively trained and leads a comprehensive outpatient DBT program for adolescents and adults.

Specialties other than BPD: Trauma, Eating Disorders, Mood Disorders, and Anxiety.

Kalsner Psychology Center

Miami Beach and Weston Locations
Phone: (305) 866-3579

Team: Lydia Kalsner-Silver, EdD. Members of the team are Foundationally Trained.

Training: Dr. Kalsner is intensively trained in DBT and runs a comprehensive outpatient program for both adolescents and adults. Dr. Kalsner is
also trained in DBT for Children ages 7 to 12.

Other Specialties: Couples Therapy, Eating Disorders, Depression, and Anxiety.

DBT Center of South FL

7100 West Camino Real, Suite 201
Boca Raton, FL 33433
Phone: (305) 399-4009

Team: Sara A. Hosn, PsyD, ABPP, DBT-LBC. All members of her team have received foundational training in DBT or intensive training equivalent.

Training: Dr. Hosn is board certified in DBT through the Linehan board (DBT-LBC). She runs an adherent and comprehensive outpatient DBT program for adolescents and adults.

Specialty areas include: Trauma related conditions and dissociation, Substance Use Disorders, Eating Disorders, Mood and Anxiety Disorders.

Resilience DBT & Eating Recovery at Resilience Therapy Collaborative, LLC

33 Plymouth Street, Suite 105
Montclair, NJ 07042
Website
Phone: (973) 783-2292
Email: BReese@WomensTherapy.net

Team: Barbara Reese , LCSW, CEDS-S. Kristen Palmieri, LCSW

Program(s):

Programs: Individual DBT, DBT Skills Groups, Phone Coaching, DBT-ED Consultation Team. Evidenced Based Treatment of Eating Disorders – FBT, CBT-E, and DBT-ED

Populations: Adult, Teen, Child.