Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training: The Essentials

Maryland, US

Gloria Yi (Seo), LCSW-C, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-C) and a Board-Certified Supervisor in the state of Maryland. Gloria is a DBT-LBC Certified Clinician. Gloria obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland and her master’s degree in social work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Gloria maintains a private practice in Timonium, Maryland, which offers comprehensive DBT, as well as other evidence-based treatments. Before opening her own practice, Gloria worked at Kennedy Krieger Institute, where she was the coordinator of the DBT program at the Trauma Center. Gloria is active in providing trainings and speaking at conferences on topics related to mental health. She provides trauma and suicide prevention trainings for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Maryland chapter and for the state of Maryland. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and teaches advanced level social work students.

Gloria was trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Pre-Adolescent Children (DBT-C) and continues to be mentored and provides trainings with the program developer, Francheska Perepletchikova, Ph.D. She also holds certifications in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT) as well as Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).

Helene Sher, MD, is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist with extensive experience in evidence-based therapies, in particular Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and a longstanding commitment to the development and dissemination of high-quality DBT in Israel.

She graduated from Ben Gurion University School of Medicine and completed her psychiatric residency in 2007. Following residency, she established and led a child and adolescent psychiatric clinic within Israel’s largest health organization as part of a nationwide initiative to integrate mental health services into the general healthcare system. In this role, she developed and implemented a DBT program.

In 2011, Dr. Sher established and headed a comprehensive wrap-around eating disorder service, including an inpatient unit, developed as a DBT-based program implemented across all levels of care.

Over the years, Dr. Sher has provided individual DBT treatment, led adolescent and parent skills groups, and worked within multidisciplinary teams treating youth with complex clinical presentations, including severe emotion dysregulation.

Dr. Sher currently serves as a senior psychiatrist and is actively involved in the education and supervision of psychiatric residents and other mental health professionals. She provides supervision, consultation, and professional training to clinicians.

Dr. Sher’s professional interests include DBT for adolescents and families, eating disorders, emotion dysregulation, and team-based, multidisciplinary delivery of DBT, including milieu-based work across psychiatry, psychology, nursing, and allied health professions.