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.

Walnut Creek, CA

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Margarita Lorence, PhD, is a private practitioner specializing in DBT, CBT and self-compassion with adults. She is certified in prolonged exposure therapy, integrating self-compassion in psychotherapy and trained as a mindfulness teacher. She completed intensive training in both standard DBT and DBT-PE with expert trainers. Dr. Lorence has taught and supervised graduate students in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. In her practice she focuses on integrating self-compassion and mindfulness into trauma treatment.