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.
Bellevue, WA
Kathryn E. Korslund, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and behavioral health executive with more than 25 years of experience in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), evidence‑based suicide treatment, and enterprise‑level clinical operations. She served as Associate Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington, where she worked with Dr. Marsha Linehan as a co‑investigator on multiple DBT clinical trials and co‑developed the University of Washington DBT Adherence Coding Scale. She is also a co‑developer of the DBT Adherence Checklist for Individual Therapy (DBT AC‑I) and a contributing author to the 2025 revised DBT Skills Training Manual and DBT Skills Training Handouts & Worksheets.
Dr. Korslund held senior leadership roles at THIRA Health—including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Clinical Officer, and Clinical Director—where she designed, built, and led comprehensive DBT residential, PHP, and IOP programs for individuals with emotion dysregulation, suicidal behavior, and complex comorbidities. She later served as Director of Clinical Care at Two Chairs, overseeing national remote‑first clinical operations and tech‑enabled digital triage implementation.
She is the founding President of the DBT‑Linehan Board of Certification and has provided DBT training, consultation, and fidelity monitoring across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Dr. Korslund is a licensed psychologist in Washington State and board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, and additionally certified by the DBT‑Linehan Board of Certification and the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety.
