Over TWENTY YEARS Serving our Charleston Peninsula Areas.
Charleston’s first DBT Center.
Holy City’s Original DBT-LBC Certified Therapist Leads YOUR therapy.
We Help Build a Life Worth Living: DBT + DBT PE Stages 1-2
Then Create a Life Worth Loving: Our Stage 3-4 Grad Path
DBT + DBT PE isn’t just therapy.
DBT is whole education to ease suffering & build a life worth living.
Since 2005, DBT of CHARLESTON, the first DBT + DBT PE center here
has served Chucktown areas in comprehensive private DBT practice.
We share our educational website to empower your Clinical wisdom.
Our site is a GUIDE on what DBT with fidelity to the research is.
Learn and DISCERN well to make WISE-MINDED THERAPY CHOICES.
DBT STAMP-> HERE <-ONLY SEEN if fully DBT-certified.
“It completely transformed my life, met all my goals!”
“This is the best treatment I’ve ever received in my entire life.”
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“I can hardly believe I’ve come so far.”
“I’ve learned sharing something so intense does not mean its gonna be a burden, I actually found it [sharing skillfully-mindfully] can help other people too [Learning exemplified here was in services with Sarah at DBT Charleston in her DBT + DBT PE + DYT Programs].”
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“To openly acknowledge something as traumatic that might otherwise be normalized can help other peoples’ healing, as well as my own.”
“Even at my worst, I’ve learned I’m still lovable. Coming back to this realization again and again is what makes life worth living.”
“No matter how many times you struggle, [doing DBT+ DBT PE + DYT, at DBT Charleston] you learn to know you’re competent to get back to the place to express emotions and have them be heard and be helpful. It’s profound, emotions you think will drive people away can actually draw them closer.”
“Everything I ever was and everything I will ever be is already here. (Doing therapeutic work with Sarah), I’ve never felt so in control of my own journey that I can integrate it into my real world if that’s what my body needs. I’ve struggled with autonomy and struggled to trust myself with my own things. With someone who is holding me accountable I am capable of leading myself through traumatic moments, then I’m able to trust myself with making new friends, moving to a new place and to getting a new job.”
“DYT (Dialectical Yoga Therapeutics, Director of DBT Charleston, Sarah’s development for stage 3-4 graduates) helps me feel like I’m still part of it and still connected. DYT helps me to feel I can implement and embody my DBT PE exposure in everyday life that much more (as a program grad).”
“DYT gives me something to keep doing, working on and learning from, since DBT and exposure are more like second nature and lifestyle now [after going through our DBT program and joining the Grad program here]. DYT is a lifestyle that helps me feel that I’m staying connected to the [DBT + DBT PE inspired skills] path I’ve been on. Now, I take it deeper into my day-to-day life with DYT.”
Sarah Greenwood, director of DBT of Charelston, is the area’s CHARLESTON LISTED Fully-Certified Clinician as shown. (educate your therapy knowledge here, SEARCH Linehan Institute for clinician’s name & by city – see who’s listed as Board-Certified Clinician –>) DBT clinician.
Our CARE is for YOU (CLICK to expand)
We love support to our community with evidenced therapy.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) of Charleston offers complete, comprehensive DBT program as developed by DBT Founder Marsha Linehan.
NO MATTER WHAT, DBT of Charleston clients work DIRECTLY with fully Linehan-Board certified DBT clinician with 15 years clinical experience – no interns nor ‘therapists in training’ lead your therapy at your expense.
Sarah did her advanced direct training with DBT’s founder, Marsha Linehan, PhD.
As SOLE Original DBT Center of Charleston, we have offered Gold Standard Specialized DBT with FIDELITY since 2005.
DBT of Charleston currently has limited open slots for the following:
motivated adults,
ambitious young adults (17+)
driven teens, couples and families all welcome.
Come get therapy for the therapist,
Therapy for professional adults
OR Professional DBT Practice & Certification Consultation for Clinicians.
Our specialized adult programs start with four pre-treatment program assessment sessions for DBT + DBT PE program intake consideration – for teens -> a similar process.
Our director has long recovery passions for medical professionals and students, performers of the arts and clinical therapists.
Sarah also has vast experience with other high profile professionals, activists, people with sexually expansive identities like LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC facing minority stress. Our director has special skills for treating those wanting gender + racial systemic recovery for justice and relief. Contact us NOW TODAY.
*Note: When we are full at DBT of Charleston, please contact us directly for advising. We take great care in referrals to support our callers with top properly-trained Gold Standard treatment providers for referral needs. See more on Referrals here.
About Sarah, DBT of Charleston's DIRECTOR ENTHUSED to meet YOU (CLICK here)
Sarah Greenwood, LPC, LCMHC, M.A. – a vast seasoned DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™, is passionate for embodied therapy – devoted to daily mental health practice. She graduated her Masters in Counseling with High Honors.
As a College of Charleston (CofC) graduate with B.A. in Theater Performance, Sarah brings an expressive ground to clinical-therapeutic work with clients and has long Charleston SC. familial and ancestral roots. Past certified personal trainer, cultural free-dance and pilates teacher, Sarah has long studied east-west mind-body sciences as lifestyle passions.
Sarah taught yoga at MUSC’s Wellness Center, along side her mind-body personal training business and lead personal training large medically-aware groups at MUSC.
Sarah’s parents also did medical residency/taught at respected MUSC.
Meanwhile, Sarah now has experienced near 25 years of Charleston, SC. home life and calls the Southeast regions her home, despite growing up in Southern MN.
Due to her long roots in this Southern, local and charming community Sarah is intimately familiar with the growth of DBT in Charleston.
As previously clarified, it was our practice at DBT of Charleston who introduced DBT and its origins to Ya’ll with great honor.
Likewise, Sarah was the original THERAPIST to INTRODUCE ‘DBT PE’ Stage 2 (applied for complex trauma) by way of her primary launch of Melanie Harned’s stage 2 at DBT Charleston in 2014.
We do appreciate our community’s long-standing loyalty to our MISSION of delivering TRUE DBT to our BELOVED CHARLESTON PEOPLE who get FIRST PRIORITY ACCESS despite our growth – with our virtual clinical therapy + education programs reach through the Carolinas, into Asheville WNC, and our virtual school accessed worldwide.
Innovative, Direct, Compassionate Therapist Brings IT (CLICK to expand)
INSPIRED to CONNECT with YOU.
DBT Charleston’s Director, Sarah Greenwood (she/box free), LPC, LCMHC, practices DBT PE skillful lifestyle devotedly in her day-to-day life herself.
Sarah holds a Masters Degree (M.A.) in Mental Health Counseling with High Honors of top % in her class and a Minor in Systems + Family Therapy.
Sarah Greenwood is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™ – furthest a therapist can attain in DBT for the treatment of complex emotion regulation struggles.
Moreover, she delivers an advanced DBT Prolonged Exposure (+DBT PE) expertise.
Tellingly, Sarah spent near a decade in world respected training and passed advanced revered DBT board exams, & personalized 1-on-1 weekly consultation. In more words, she closely, individually studied with a DBT WORLD-CLASS DBT Portland Institute / Seattle Linehan-Institute revered consultant 1-on-1 for years to best support you.
Sarah draws from this clinical wisdom to empower the well-being of clients and herself, as to offer deeply embodied, grounded therapy based on sharp inner wisdom.
DRIVEN to serve YOU, and our COMMUNITIES, Sarah graduated Women’s Leadership Certificate Program of Yale University’s School of Management Executive Ed. through Yale, where Sarah made outstanding grades in strengths of effective assertiveness, empathy & emotional intelligence as a female leader.
BEYOND ORDINARY EXPERTISE: Rock your DBT Therapy (CLICK HERE)
With COMPASSIONATE CARE for YOU, our DBT +DBT PE program director, Sarah also has over two decades experience teaching yoga with a formal therapeutics focus and double certifications delivered by India-studied trainers.
WNC Asheville advanced certified 500-level yoga therapeutics instructor, Sarah studied with lead physical therapist & contemplative psychology specialist and she continues to be a student of yoga, going on thirty-five years.
With honor to JAPANESE CULTURAL along with the behavioral scientific roots of DBT, Sarah is uniquely & directly trained by both DBT + DBT PE founders.
Actually! Researcher, DBT founder + ZEN master Marsha Linehan, Ph.D is shown on this website’s main page in a 2013 photo with Sarah.
At DBT Charleston, Sarah is committed to bring you most direct therapy linked to DBT’s developer. Marsha Linehan, Ph.D found through extensive peer-reviewed evidence on what works after witnessing decades of therapy impacts to people like YOU.
To best help you, Sarah, long experienced specialist in complex trauma (after originating LAUNCH of Stage II in ‘DBT PE’ in Charleston) now has over twelve years of stage 2 CPTSD clinical experience in DBT + DBT-Prolonged Exposure Protocol (DBT+ DBT-PE) alone. Sarah continues to refine the art of treating complex trauma.
ALONG with Sarah’s fifteen years of DBT clinical specialization with fidelity to original DBT research models, stage 2 DBT PE improves stage 1 DBT OUTCOMES 3-4x as shown by evidence.
Devoted to COMMUNITY RECOVERY, Sarah has formal training for minority stress + traumatic invalidation. She stands for multi-cultural sensitivity, racial power awareness and trans rights and inspires care for these topics in her approach as a skills educator.
With long clinical experience with clients recovering nervous systems from impacts of racial harm and LGBTQIA+ oppressions, Sarah weaves in therapeutic advocacy and is driven to keep learning from variances amongst minority communities. Furthermore, Sarah has worked with an array of people with vast life philosophies and/or spiritual perspectives.
In care for our freedom to love who we love, Sarah is especially passionate about and skillful at doing DBT therapy with people of sexually expansive identities.
FOR YOUR GOLD SUPPORT, At DBT of Charleston, we uphold & offer all four core aspects of evidence-based DBT + DBT PE program:
1. Individual DBT + DBT PE Therapy Sessions
2. DBT +DBT PE Skills Class
3. DBT +DBT PE Phone Coaching
4. DBT Consultation Team – *”True DBT” Licensed Clinicians/Psychologists
*Note: A “True” DBT + DBT PE consultation team delivers “therapy for the therapist” — an ‘inside-out’ approach. Our “TRUE DBT” Team helps your therapist show up as a balanced DBT skills-embodied clinician, with groups of advanced professionals who team up on clinical brainstorming behind the scenes to help support your DBT therapy goals. Rooting for you!
More+ Media on DBT: Lady Gaga’s success journey in DBT.
Similarly, with all four evidenced aspects of the DBT (+DBT PE) program, we strive for life-transformative outcomes for you. Such OUTCOMES are evidenced by our adherence to corresponding research out of the University of Washington. Through our devotion, we maintain training fidelity with Behavior Tech|Linehan Institute at fully-board certified levels.
SOCIALS
Is DBT right for you?
Do you….
- find it challenging to navigate emotions?
- experience unbearable emotional pain?
- have difficulty sustaining relationships?
- fear alienation or abandonment?
- have sudden intense emotive responses, like past painful events were reoccurring?
- have a chronic sense of emptiness?
- think of or act on self-harm behaviors?
- have repeat thoughts of wanting to die?
- have uncertain sense of self and extreme emotional flooding or numbing?
- endure pervasive relational pain, confusing attachments or traumatic invalidation?
- deeply struggle with systemic harms, minority stress and/or your role as an ally?
- resort to avoidance behaviors like eating struggles or excess substance use to cope?
- live with complicated grief, complex trauma symptoms, or neurodivergence?
If you answered yes to inquiries above, we want to help bring clarity, direction & balance to your life.
Helpful Links
DBTPE.org: Treating Complex PTSD in High-Risk & Multi-Diagnostic Clients
DBT Adherence & Fidelity Project: Fostering High-Quality DBT That Leads to Better Outcomes
Learn about founder of DBT & Zen Master Marsha Linehan, PhD.
Choosing a “true” DBT Therapist
DBT in the News: DBT Graduate Selena Gomez shares her experience with DBT
OUR STANDARDS. PROTECT DBT (CLICK to expand)
DBT FIDELITY PROTECTION
Sarah shares DBT is a namemeant to be carefully protected to preserve your treatment recovery to align with evidenced outcomes.
We protect the high quality of care you are pursuing, investing in and intending to receive with TRUE DBT programs.
At DBT of Charleston, an independent private practice center, we care about people & our community. Further, we want ya’ll properly educated about what true DBT + DBT PE therapy is.
Subsequently, individuals pursuing DBT + DBT PE can get the therapy they actually sought out to recover from their symptoms and suffering.
We’ve trained hard for YOU and your well-being. In short, we stand strong in the HEALTH & INTEGRITY of what we are delivering to our community. (See Choosing a “True” DBT Therapist)
To sum up, we adhere to principles of the DBT program to the best of our ability, as taught by DBT founder, lead psychologist & Zen master Marsha Linehan, PhD.
In consequence, we can assure our consult teams of therapists over the decades have been with a variety of highly qualified DBT clinicians.
OUR 'TRUE' DBT TEAM (CLICK to expand)
That is to say, these sharp team DBT + DBT PE clinicians have special niches who practice all around the country and world.
Therefore, many of our team clinicians have met advanced DBT Intensive training requirements with Behavioral Tech. Along with this, NUMEROUS of our team experts have gone on with Linehan Institute to complete highest Certification Training. Notably, that is greatest a DBT therapist could accomplish under direct review from MARSHA LINEHAN & her immediate team.
Our team standards help create a strong network of resilient therapists and resources to support clinician excellence, clients’ cases & DBT fidelity.
