With LOVE for SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY, as the first DBT Center in Charleston, in service to the area for nearly TWO DECADES, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) of Charleston offers the complete & comprehensive DBT program as developed by DBT Founder Marsha Linehan and NO MATTER WHAT our DBT of Charleston clients get to work DIRECTLY with our fully Linehan-Board certified DBT clinician with 15 years clinical experience and trained directly by Marsha Linehan, PhD; NO interns or clinicians who are not fully DBT-Linehan Board Certified will lead YOUR THERAPY at DBT of CHARLESTON- the SOLE original center that stands INDEPENDENTLY serving the Charleston community with Gold Standard Specialized DBT with FIDELITY since 2005.

We bring this program to you as the ORIGINAL and ONLY CHARLESTON LISTED fully-certified as shown (to search Linehan Institute for a clinician’s name or by city to see who are listed as Board-Certified Clinicians, click here–>)DBT clinician in the Charleston metro area, as well as one of only a handful in the state & region.

DBT of Charleston currently has limited open slots for taking adults, young adults (17+), therapy for the therapist and professionals who are a fit for our adult program for pre-treatment program assessment intake along with specific long recovery passions for medical students, performers of the arts, therapists, activists, people with sexually expansive identities (LGBTQNDI-A+) and people of color; we are completely full for our smaller young-mid teen program at this time as our main focus for years now is our adult (17+) & grads programs, when we are full at DBT of Charleston, we send teens + families to either Columbia or to the ONLY other Linehan-Board Certified DBT Clinician here- a person who in Spring 2024 just expanded their Florida practice to our Charleston community, who is listed under ‘Miami’ at the Linehan-Board Institute.  See more on Referrals here.

DBT of Charleston’s Director is ENTHUSED to meet YOU

Sarah Greenwood, LPC, LCMHC, M.A. graduating with High Honors, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™, College of Charleston (CofC) graduate with B.A. in Theater Performance brings an expressive flair to clinical-therapeutic work with clients and has long Charleston SC. familial and ancestral roots as her parents did residency and taught at MUSC before her birth in MN.; yet upon return Sarah has now experienced near 25 years of residence in this local charming Southern community and is long familiar with the growth of DBT in Charleston since it was our practice at DBT of Charleston who introduced DBT and its origins to Ya’ll.  We appreciate your long-standing, ongoing loyalty to our MISSION of delivering TRUE DBT to our BELOVED CHARLESTON PEOPLE with our virtual programs reach through the Carolinas.

THRILLED to CONNECT with YOU, Director of DBT of Charleston, Sarah Greenwood (she/box free), LPC, LCMHC, M.A. graduating in Mental Health Counseling with High Honors (top two in her class), DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™ + Advanced DBT Prolonged Exposure (+DBT PE) Expert spent near a decade in rigorous training, multiple advanced exams, & personalized 1-on-1 weekly consultation with DBT WORLD-CLASS consultant from DBT Portland Institute & Linehan Institute.

PASSIONATE about SERVING YOU & the COMMUNITY, graduate of the Women’s Leadership Program of Yale University’s School of Management Executive Ed., Sarah obtained outstanding grades in strengths of effective assertiveness, empathy & emotional intelligence as a female leader. 

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DRIVEN to HELP YOU, our DBT +DBT PE program director, Sarah also has two decades of experience teaching as an advanced certified 500-level yoga therapeutics instructor which has deeply woken embodied experiences of love and compassion within her.  

DEVOTED to COMMUNITY RECOVERY, Sarah has formal training for minority-based traumatic invalidation, anti-racism, anti-transphobia and clinical experiences with clients on racial/cultural/ethnicity issues, LGBTNDIQ+-A concerns and with an array of life philosophies and/or spiritual perspectives and is passionate about working with people with sexually expansive identities.

With HONOR to the JAPANESE CULTURAL and SCIENTIFIC ROOTS of DBT, Sarah is uniquely & directly trained by DBT founder, researcher and ZEN master Marsha Linehan, Ph.D as shown on this page in a 2013 photo of them together to bring you most direct therapy linked to the developer who found what works by evidence of witnessing years of therapy impacts to people like YOU & to best serve you Sarah is highly experienced with more than a decade of her refined stage 2 CPTSD specialization in DBT + DBT-Prolonged Exposure Protocol (DBT+ DBT-PE) on top of her 15 years of DBT clinical expertise with fidelity to original DBT research models and stage 2 DBT PE improves stage 1 DBT OUTCOMES 3-4x.

FOR YOUR SUPPORT, At DBT of Charleston, we uphold & offer all four aspects of the evidence-based DBT + DBT PE program:

1. Individual DBT + DBT PE Skills-Based Expert Therapy Sessions

2. DBT +DBT PE Skills Class

3. DBT +DBT PE Phone Coaching

4. A Professional DBT Consultation Team of DBT + DBT PE Experts, Psychologists, & Therapists

A “True” DBT + DBT PE consultation team is focused on “therapy for the therapist,” an approach that is supportive of effective professional decisions concerning your case, & ultimately supports you with a wisely balanced DBT + DBT PE skills-embodied clinician

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With all four evidenced aspects of the DBT (+DBT PE) program, we strive for life-transformative outcomes for YOU as evidenced by adherence to the corresponding research out of the University of Washington & training fidelity with Behavior Tech|Linehan Institute at fully-board certified levels.