Guest speaker Elizabeth Rodrigues, DBT Program Director at Gladstone Psychiatry. 

A Licensed Profession Counselor, Elizabeth specializes in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) which helps clients to change emotions and behaviors. Change is accomplished through collaborative behavior based individual therapy in combination with group skills training to promote emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness. The goal of DBT therapy is to work toward the client’s best life. As part of the Gladstone DBT team, Elizabeth provides the full, comprehensive DBT protocol comprised of individual therapy, group skills training, and phone coaching. She received her Masters of Science in Counseling Psychology from Loyola University Maryland.