The San Francisco Dialectical Behavior Therapy Center (SFDBT) is certified by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification. SFDBT and its affiliated therapists offer Dialectical Behavior Therapy services. Its cofounders, Deborah Mitchell, Ph.D. and Mark Rosenthal, LCSW, established the Center in 2006. 

All of the SFDBT-affiliated therapists have been formally trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and are individually certified by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, or actively working towards certification. In addition, they have attended both the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training Course and the Advanced Intensive Training Course through Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP’s organization, Behavioral Tech.

Our goal is to build a therapeutic, loving and transformative clinical environment to foster and sustain lives worth living.  

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At San Francisco DBT Center, we extend our deepest sympathy to those grieving and impacted by the escalating violence and the horrific acts of terror against innocent people. We abhor the actions of Hamas and we are acutely aware these actions have consequences that touch many lives — innocent civilians, women, children, and babies. In Israel, in Gaza and beyond, let us strive for a future where innocent people no longer pay the price for conflicts they did not create.