Faculty
Behavioral Tech Institute prides itself in providing the highest quality training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy available. We can only offer this to you by providing the most experienced and trainers & consultants in the field of DBT. We honor each one of these individuals for their efforts and dedication to DBT and other empirically-based treatments.
Florida
Elizabeth Dexter-Mazza, PsyD, received her undergraduate degree from Florida State University and her doctoral degree from the School of Professional Psychology at Pacific University.. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center’s Adolescent Depression and Suicide Program under Dr. Alec Miller. Dr. Dexter-Mazza completed her postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Marsha Linehan at the University of Washington. While at the BRTC, she was the Clinical Director and has been a research therapist for multiple research studies, providing both individual DBT and DBT group skills training. Her clinical experience with DBT focuses on treatment for adult and adolescent populations along with family members. She has published several book chapters and peer reviewed articles on DBT, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and graduate school training in how to manage
suicidal clients. She maintains a private practice in Seattle, providing individual DBT and skills based coaching and support to family members and friends of individuals with BPD As a co-author of the DBT for Schools social emotional learning curriculum, STEPS-A (Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving with Adolescents), Dr. Mazza consults to schools on implementing the STEPS-A curriculum. She is licensed as a psychologist in the state of Washington.
