With a background in trauma medicine and a Rehabilitation Counseling integrative degree in law, medicine, and psychology, Minal brings a fresh perspective and the ability to provide comprehensive care for each patient in the clinic. She has been serving the patient population for over 35 years now, acquiring skills and knowledge that have helped her treat some of the most challenging populations in mental health. She believes in a curative mindset, with an aim towards resolving all illness and ending suffering. Minal believes that emotional brain health needs to be treated akin to conventional medicine—with a resolution or cure/remission  in mind, not endless weekly appointments!

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Privileged to be a field researcher for the 2014 new edition of the DSM V, she has spoken at numerous venues, including the Georgia Psychological Association (GPA), the Licensed Professional Counselor Association (LPCA), NAMI, and several hospitals. She also participated in effectiveness trials for an ethical review board, along with being a speaker for the national mental health forum, and also the advisory board for Skyland Trail.

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With Atlanta DBT's success, she was driven to make affordable, insurance funded DBT available. In January 2015, she & Jania opened the country's first insurance funded immersion program for a behavioral health hospital, utilizing DBT, RO-DBT, DBT-ACES, & MBT for adult women. She now has an independent IOP & PHP available, and is expanding her focus to applying Mindfulness to other areas of medicine.

In addition, she is writing the first modules in DBT for Stage III & IV treatment completion. Her aim is to help people end the cycle of behavioral healthcare, working towards a cure, comparable to currently held accepted expectations of every other field in modern medicine.

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With the completion of writing modules for stages III & IV of DBT, and with the additional intensive training in Stage II DBT-PE, Minal is thrilled that Atlanta DBT has become the first clinic worldwide to offer DBT treatment in its entirety!

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In 2022, federal and state grants were secured through DBHDD (The Georgia State Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities) funding to train state hospitals and CSB's. Minal, Jania, Michael, & Steve toured the state training clinicians in every region. 

Minal is known for her fanciful yet focused (a dialectic indeed) manner with a passionate ability to engage even the most fearful and reluctant patients. She specializes in crisis management, and her dedicated style of balancing gentleness with firmness (another dialectic anyone?) in getting to the answers quickly allows patients to move on faster. Her absolute favorite part of DBT is the Interpersonal Effectiveness Module. Being able to teach people how to be heard as they intended is very gratifying as people deepen and add meaning to their relationships. 

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In her spare time, she likes to cook, bake, crochet, perform instrumentally with her family, sail, play cards with her friends, travel, go horse riding, and go on food crawls. She loves Law & Order, Grey's Anatomy, and misses How To Get Away With Murder, and Scandal! She loves little itty-bitty Shitzus and Malteses--and is thrilled to be the new owner of a Havapoo! It has been an immensely rewarding experience raising a puppy! Oh, and perhaps most importantly: Jenni's Salted Peanut Butter with Dark Chocolate Flakes Ice Cream is the best invention in the culinary world to her along with Steve's cookies! mmmmmm....... 

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"It's time to end the revolving cycle of behavioral healthcare for the financial gain of many. It's time patients were given a curative mindset--with the knowledge and the principles to make it stick."