Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents & Their Caregivers

Laurence Y. Katz, MD, FRCPC, is currently Professor and Head, Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is a psychiatrist on the Intensive Child and Adolescent Treatment Service where he is the team leader of the adolescent DBT outpatient service. He is also a senior DBT Trainer with Behavioral Tech, LLC in Seattle, Washington.

He took his medical training at the University of Manitoba and earned his M.D. in 1993. He took his adult psychiatry training at the University of Manitoba and then went to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y. to complete his training in Child and Adolescent psychiatry. He earned his board certification in 1998. While at Einstein he spent 2 years training in DBT for suicidal adolescents supervised by Dr. Alec Miller.

His main areas of research interest are in suicide, the treatment of suicidal behavior and psychiatric epidemiology. He holds or is a co-investigator on numerous grants in these areas of interest. He has been invited to speak on these topics at international conferences and has published extensively in the area.

Maryland, US

Gloria "Seo" Yi, 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. Gloria is certified in providing services in Korean through the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Gloria also holds certifications in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT) as well as Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).