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.

Massachusetts

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Katie Dixon-Gordon, Ph.D., received her undergraduate training from the University of Washington, where she worked as a research intern and staff member at the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics (BRTC), directed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. Dr. Dixon-Gordon received her doctoral training from Simon Fraser University working with Alex Chapman, Ph.D., and completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Dixon-Gordon has served as an investigator on several grant-funded studies of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), BPD, and self-injury, and has published many theoretical and empirical articles on emotion regulation, BPD, and DBT. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches, conducts research, and supervises the DBT Program.