Atlanta DBT Center

stop surviving, solve suffering, savor living, & start thriving

because we are

A full protocol DBT program--the first in the southeast, run by

     Georgia's FIRST Intensively Trained Clinician in DBT, RO-DBT, DBT-PE, & MBT! 

Dedicated to building a life worth living--without us.

Behavioral Specialists Intensively Trained in every DBT specialty. 

Therapists committed to providing expertise for your needs

Individual DBT Psychotherapy

Adults

Adolescents

Families

Couples

Intensive Options Available (IOP/PHP)

DBT Skills Classes for 

Adults

Families

Couples

Geriatric

Adolescents

​Intensive Options Available (IOP/PHP)

​Parents/Spouses/Siblings short series

PTSD & Trauma 

The DBT Prolonged Exposure  protocol is a comprehensive treatment to help suffering individuals recover from trauma and build lives they experience as worth living.

While no trauma can be erased, we can work to minimize/eliminate unwanted side effects from it. 

DBT-PE is a  Stage II Treatment

Convenient Locations

Norcross

Ellijay

FINALLY! 

RADICALLY OPEN DBT

RO-DBT is a comprehensive, tailor made treatment for:

Major Depression

Anxiety Disorders

Trauma

PTSD

Anorexia

Spectrum Disorders

Try It On The House.

Call 770-833-0227 or email us to make an appointment to visit us, meet the clinicians, and enjoy a skills class on the house. 

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Read about the dangers of a non-protocol DBT practitioner

We don't "DO" DBT.

We are Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinicians.

DBT is balance.

DBT is a way of life. 

DBT is a way of thinking.

DBT is acceptance and change. 

DBT is courage to do something new.

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Let's DO what works, instead of what should work!

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are"

Anaïs Nin

DID YOU KNOW
THAT DBT ACTUALLY HAS
FOUR STAGES TO TREATMENT?

And when you go to a DBT program, you only get ONE?

Mental Health Treatment SHOULD be curative in focus, just as all other medicine is.

Just "better" is not enough!

Atlanta DBT has developed the first curriculum for Stage III and IV DBT, to ensure complete treatment. Our goal is that once you have a remission of symptoms, it stays that way.

WHY US?

Our team leader is Georgia's
FIRST Intensively Trained DBT Clinician AND FIRST Intensively Trained RO-DBT Clinician with over THIRTY-THREE years of experience in medicine & behavioral health.

The only program worldwide 

to see this  treatment through 

ALL 4 stages to true completion.

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Stage I

Behavioral Control

Over Life Threatening Behaviors

3 components:

1. Individual DBT Psychotherapy

2. Skills Coaching In Real Time

3. Skills Classes, which teach:

• Mindfulness

• Interpersonal Effectiveness

• Emotion Regulation

• Distress Tolerance

• Radical Openness

• Walking the Middle Path

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Stage II

Quiet Desperation: Dealing with PTSD & Trauma

Prolonged Exposure:

2 components

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1. Imaginal Practice

2. In Vivo Practice

Stage III

Ordinary Living: Solving Problems & Maintaining Control

2 Modules

1. My-ndful Mentalization

2. Dialectical Patterns

Stage IV

Completeness:

Meaning in Purpose

& Work

1 Module:

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1. Cognitive Resiliency