Welcome to the Atlanta DBT Center.  We are the first DBT center in Georgia to be staffed with an intensively trained dialectical behavior therapist, a DBT practicing psychiatrist, and an addictions specialist and dialectical behavior therapy skills trainer utilizing the DBT-S skills, a new arena of skills specifically designed for the treatment of addictions.  We are proud to be the first center to also offer DBT couples therapy based on the work of Alan Fruzetti and his new book, and the latest module developed in DBT, Walking the Middle Path, developed by Alec Miller.

Our staff:

Minal Shah, MS, NCC, LPC, Clinical Director

Training:
  • Rehabilitation Counseling with emphasis in medicine & psychopharmacology,
    organic psychology, and specialties in aphasias and eating disorders.
    • DBT Training:
 
  • Intensively Trained Dialectical Behavior Therapist (by Marsha Linehan, PhD, Linda Dimeff, PhD & Katie Korslund, PhD).
  • Advanced topics in Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy (Charlie Swenson, MD and Alec Miller, PhD),
  • Advanced topics in suicide protocol (Marsha Linehan, PhD), and
  • Advanced topics in skills training (Shari Manning, PhD, & Tom Lynch PhD)
  • CBT Training: with David Burns, MD

Eamon Dutta, MD, Medical Director

  • Director of Adult psychiatry, Peachford Hospital
  • ASAM certified
  • Specializing in adolescent DBT psychiatry,
  • Adult DBT psychiatry
  • General adolescent and adult DBT psychiatry
  • Psychiatry of addiction
Stephanie Barnhart, LCSW, Addictions Programming

  • Specializes in addictions medicine, and
  • The new DBT based addictions model utilizing DBT-S skills for addictions
  • General psychology and grief counseling
     

We offer comprehensive care using all four components necessary to maximize a successful outcome in a DBT program. 

 

The four primary treatment modes in DBT are:

 Individual DBT Psychotherapy
DBT Skills Training Class
 Phone Coaching
 Team Consultation

  
 

Now Treating
 
Borderline Personality Disorder Bipolar Disorder
The Multi-Disordered Patient Eating Disorders
Substance Abuse