The "Certified DBT Clinician" Difference
The “Certified DBT Clinician” Difference FOR YOU TO GET BEST SUPPORT
Ensuring “True” DBT Certification for YOUR OUTCOMES
The emblem shown above on this webpage is unique to TRUE fully Linehan-Board DBT Certified Therapists to HELP YOU BE MOST LIKELY TO GET SIGNIFICANT THREAPY OUTCOMES. You will ONLY see this emblem, shown above, on TRUE fully DBT certified therapists’ websites.
Our director, Sarah Greenwood, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™, the original Charleston listed fully-Linehan Board DBT Therapist in the area & DBT of Charleston both humbly & proudly represent the long-term launch of Marsha Linehan’s in-depth & most advanced level DBT training in the Charleston area TO BRING GREAT THERAPY TO OUR COMMUNITY.
Marsha Linehan, the sole authentic developer of DBT, created this in-depth, most advanced level Dialectical Behavioral Therapy training certification to distinguish the most rigorously long-devoted trained DBT therapists from those just beginning training at a foundational or even basic advanced training level SO YOU MAY HAVE TOP QUALITY CARE.
The Importance of “True” DBT Certification for YOU
Marsha Linehan desired to feel deep confidence in clinicians to bring her life-long research of DBT into communities to help people like YOU.
She also felt confident in carefully following her own research to succeed in her own therapeutic journey, as her delivery of this work to communities is personal to HER own break-throughs.
This is why it is so important to follow Marsha Linehan’s in-depth, most advanced DBT training as it was intended to reach YOU.
How DBT of Charleston Honors This Most Advanced DBT Training to CARE for YOU
Sarah is deeply humbled that she has achieved this rare level of DBT capacity particularly while Marsha Linehan, the creator of DBT, was still overseeing it before she retired.
Such a mix of training is NO longer a combination that other therapists compelled to develop themselves in DBT can obtain to support your outcomes.
In light of both receiving that direct advanced training from Marsha & full certification during the life of her career, Sarah intends to do the honor of her specialized DBT certification justice, treating her communities with passion for her foundation in SOLID therapy based on STRONG research & a somewhat intimate professional link to our one & only DBT developer Marsha Linehan TO BRING YOU GREAT THERAPY.
Our Role in Training DBT Therapists &
Supporting Your Recovery
Sarah does not take her position of unique expertise & presence in the Charleston area for granted and is committed to maintaining current certification with continued education & a personal commitment to embody DBT skills in her own life to delivery stronger therapy to YOU.
At DBT of Charleston, we value both the quality of DBT treatment AND the quality of DBT clinician training. We remain mindful of who is being impacted when they believe they’re receiving “DBT” as it was truly intended. And accordingly, we remain vigilant about who in our communities claims to have the knowledge to provide training for other therapists in DBT that can affect your outcomes.
While Sarah’s knowledge base in DBT may be recognized as at a trainers level, as indicated by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification emblem, her substantial experience in the specialized DBT field, as well as (and especially) the verbal stamp of approval from true DBT trainers, she remains cautious about how & who she’ll devote herself to training in DBT so as to SUSTAIN QUALITY CARE FOR THE PEOPLE.
This complex treatment need be preserved with its common complexity in treating complex interpersonal trauma, self-defeating tendencies & even the life-threatening symptomology that can be a part of it AND YOUR VITALITY IS INTENDED TO HAVE PROTECTION.
Accordingly, who we choose to train will have immense work ethic, caring for THE CLIENT with the HIGHEST QUALITY TRAINING & a DEVOTION to respecting the name “DBT” to represent the quality it was meant to be for the WELLNESS of these individuals and of our communities.
What You Need to Know About DBT Referrals:
“DBT-informed” Therapists & “True” DBT Therapists
TO SUPPORT YOUR TREATMENT, please be aware Non-DBT clinicians, even at doctoral levels in private practices & at medical universities, may not be “versed” in these discrepancies in the DBT world when they are giving you a referral for DBT treatment.
YOU WILL BE EMPOWERED TO KNOW, the RARE, worldwide, & considerably small loving force of fully Linehan DBT trained & certified are the SOLE lead educators & consultants on HOW to give a successful Linehan DBT referral so clients are with a true Linehan-DBT clinician to fit their recovery needs & symptoms.
Many clinicians are “DBT-informed,” meaning they’ve had a comparably small amount of exposure to “DBT” and/or have received some learning by “non-official” trainers (trainers who have not reached full Linehan board DBT certification, have not been in the DBT field long and/or have NOT been given the “green light” by other official Linehan Board certified DBT clinician trainers to teach DBT to clinicians). “DBT-informed” clinicians certainly may offer some level of support.
However, if you are pursuing “true” DBT due to having struggles that are a fit for DBT, you’d be wisely advised to assure you are with a “true” DBT Linehan-Board Certified therapist who is devoted to the fidelity of Linehan’s DBT for the PROTECTION of its research being applied to YOUR OUTCOMES.
Again, be advised that DBT is a label that was meant to be carefully upheld so that YOUR TREATMENT RECOVERY is MAINTAINED with the COMPLETE QUALITY of CARE that you are both pursuing, investing in and intending to receive when getting DBT.
For more information, see Choosing a DBT Therapist.
When DBT of Charleston is unable to accept new clients, Director Sarah Greenwood refers to a full DBT virtual program referral source based out of Columbia, SC. who (similar to our Director here, Sarah) also has extensive and long-term experience intervening in DBT with stage 2 ‘prolonged exposure’ which helps DBT work even more effectively, -and- secondarily call for guidance on referrals and true Linehan-Board clinicians running complete DBT programs with full fidelity in the area that are fully-certified Linehan Board DBT therapists.
Sarah confidently gives primary referral to Scott Fairweather, a fully-certified DBT therapist holding the same DBT certification emblem shown here with extensive prolonged exposure experience similar to Sarah and contact us here for referral ed. and dialectics re. referrals on the Charleston area at large SO YOU CAN BE BEST SERVED WITH GREAT THERAPY LEADS THAT FIT YOU AND YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS. (Scott Fairweather may also offer virtual or in person services, allowing for DBT program accessibility throughout the Carolinas similar to Sarah here at DBT Charleston.)