Be a leader in the community for educating and providing evidence based treatments to help our clients build a life worth living. At Dallas DBT, we strive to offer adherent DBT for children, adolescents, young adults, adults, and families. We provide programs with all four components of DBT for each population: Individual DBT sessions, DBT Skills groups, coaching calls, and clinician consultation team. We have completed intensive training through the Linehan Institute. To date we are the only group of clinicians in North Texas who have completed this intensive and advanced intensive training. We are the only practice in North Texas that has clinicians certified and actively working toward DBT certification through the Linehan Instititute.
*All therapists at this group are individual practitioners
Tammy Hyde, MA, LPC, DBT-LBC
Tammy is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Certified Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Clinician through the Linehan Institute. Tammy is a treating clinician, group skills trainer, as well as a trainer and consultant for other therapist and treatment programs who provide DBT. Tammy obtained a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology in 1998 from Louisiana Tech University. Tammy began her career working in an Adolescent Residential Treatment Center in Louisiana and then moved into a hospital treatment setting treating both adolescents and adults. It was while in this setting she developed a private practice working with a psychiatrist who specialized in treating personality disorders. During this post-graduate work, she was introduced to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy as an emerging research based treatment shown to be effective with the population. After moving to Dallas, Tammy worked in a local hospital while building her private practice.
She has been a pioneer in developing DBT programming in Dallas since 2004 and is cofounder of Dallas DBT. She has over 20years experience in treating personality disorders, self-harm, and chronic suicidal ideation. Tammy also treats eating disorders, mood disorders, PTSD, Complex PTSD, and anxiety. Tammy works with adolescents, adults, couples, and families as a DBT therapist providing individual, family, couple, and group therapy. In addition to being a clinician, Tammy is a speaker and educator. Tammy has been a presenter at the National Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder annual conference. She has spoken at area hospitals and treatment centers, as well as Universities on DBT. She also provides consultation to area hospitals, treatment programs, and therapists providing a DBT perspective. Tammy has also served as a trainer to other clinicians in the Dallas area who have obtained intensive training through Behavioral Tech. Tammy is also honored to be a part of a team of clinicians chosen by the Linehan Institute to determine treatment adherence and coding in the certification process of potential certification candidates.
Additional training Tammy has completed: Intensive Training in DBT in 2006 and the Advanced Intensive Training in DBT with DBT developer, Marsha Linehan, PhD., 2013. She also has completed Intensive Training in DBT adapted Prolonged Exposure therapy with the treatment’s developers, Melanie Harned, PhD and Marsha Linehan, PhD a the University of Washington, 2015. Tammy most recently completed training in DBT for Complex PTSD with treatment developer Martin Bohus, MD. Tammy was the second clinician in the state of Texas to obtain certification, 2017. In 2019 Tammy received training in coding and treatment adherence and became a part of a team working with the Linehan Institute to help in determining candidates for the certification process.
License, Certification & Training
Dialectical Behavioral Therapist Linehan Board Certified 2017
Advanced Intensive Training in DBT with DBT developer, Marsha Linehan, PhD., 2013
Intensive Training in DBT with Charlie Swenson, M.D. and Clive Robinson, PHD, 2006
Intensive Training in DBT adapted Prolonged Exposure therapy with the treatment’s developers, Melanie Harned, PhD and Marsha Linehan, PhD a the University of Washington, 2015
DBT Complex PTSD Intensive Training, with treatment developer, Martin Bohus, MD, 2020
Licensed Professional Counselor Texas
Education
M.A. Counseling Psychology - Louisiana Tech University
B.A. Psychology and Sociology
Louisiana Tech University
DR. LAURA J. COOPER, PSYD
Dr. Laura Cooper is the first licensed psychologist to be DBT intensively trained in North Texas. She provides comprehensive psychological assessment and testing for patients. Testing helps ensure a more accurate diagnosis and results in the most beneficial treatment for the most complex and complicated cases.
Dr. Laura Cooper believes that individuals enter psychotherapy due to longstanding behavioral maladjustment, psychopathology, relational crises, or out of an intense desire for personal growth. She began DBT of Texas with the mindset that the therapeutic relationship is the most important instrument for creating positive and healthy change.
Dr. Cooper approaches psychotherapy with the perspective that it is an interactive, emotional, intuitive, and imaginative process of sustained attention to each patient’s unique character and circumstances. Patients have the opportunity to move beyond clinical description and diagnosis of symptoms, to an understanding of their own core mindfulness to create a new inner balance between passion, duty, spirituality, and individual wholeness.
Experience
Dr. Laura Cooper first began her career in law enforcement and adult corrections for over eight years. Around the same time, she founded Cooper Power Fitness and was a strength and conditioning coach for athletes in the Midwest during her early adult years. In addition to law enforcement, she worked in Corporate America for eleven years as a Corporate Litigation Manager. During this time, she completed practicum rotations at Turtle Creek Manor and Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, Texas.
Following her practicum rotations, Dr. Cooper completed an APICC accredited internship at Granbury Regional Juvenile Justice Center in Granbury, TX, as well as her postdoctoral training at Enrichment Counseling and Assessment in Dallas, Texas. In addition, Dr. Cooper taught as an adjunct forensic psychology professor at Argosy University and an adjunct psychology professor at South University.
Dr. Cooper has also worked as a rehabilitation specialist for Vericare in the North Texas Region for over three years. She is also a primary partner of Uptown Analytic Practices, LLC and owner of Laura J. Cooper, PsyD PLLC. She developed DBT of Texas after completing two years and over 300 hours of DBT intensive training from The Linehan Institute, Behavioral Tech, LLC. Dr. Cooper completed intensive Prolonged Exposure DBT treatment in 2015.
Education
Dr. Cooper obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Sociology from Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa. She has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Nebraska in Omaha, and also obtained her Master’s and Doctorate Degrees in Clinical Psychology from Argosy University in Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Cooper has completed parenting coordinating and facilitation training, and assists parents in need of limited mediation concerning parenting agreements and planning. In addition, she has several hours of specialized forensic training concerning child custody evaluations and fitness for duty examinations for police officers, security guards, correctional staff and private airplane pilots.
Dr. Cooper completed a two-year intensive training program in Dialectical Behavior Therapy from The Linehan Institute Behavioral Tech, LLC and is currently participating in a DBT consultation team on a weekly basis. In order to treat victims of trauma and veterans of war she completed her PE-DBT intensive training from M. Harned, PhD, in 2015.
Dr. Cooper has completed Gottman Level Two training with John Gottman, PhD, 2020 and utilizes this research based approach in her work with couples.
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Education License & Certification
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Intensive Training in DBT, Linehan Institute Behavioral Tech, 2014 Argosy University, Dallas, TX
Masters in Psychology, Intensive Training in Prolong Exposure Therapy, with treatment Argosy University, Dallas, TX developer Melanie Harned, Phd, ABPP, 2016
Masters in Public Administration, Intensive Training in DBT for Children,(DBT-C), with treatment University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE developer, Francisca Perepletchikova, PhD, 2018
BA, Sociology, Intensive Training in DBT Complex PTSD, with treatment developer, Graceland University,Lamont, IA Martin Bohus, MD, 2020
Level 2 Training in Gottman Therapy, John Gottman 2020
Licensed Psychologist Texas
Linda O'Toole, Ms, LPC, DBT-LBC
Linda O’Toole is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapy clinician through the Linehan Institute. Linda has been in the counseling profession for 24 years and is passionate about helping her clients learn new skills and strategies to reach their life goals. Linda obtained a Masters of Counseling in 1997 from Indiana University. Linda previously worked in a variety of settings including an outpatient Employee Assistance Program, a Crisis Counseling and Suicide Prevention Program, and several Mental Health and Substance Abuse inpatient treatment facilities. Linda began her private practice in 2005 and continues to work with adolescents, adults, families and couples.
Linda is a member of a DBT Adherent Treatment Team and treats Borderline Personality Disorder, PTSD. Complex PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, self-harm behavior, suicidal ideation, anxiety, and mood disorders. Additionally, Linda works with clients who suffer from Chronic Pain and Caregiver Stress. Linda provides DBT Individual Therapy and DBT Skills Training Groups for adolescents, adults and family/support members.
Linda completed all required DBT Initial and DBT Advanced Intensive Trainings through Behavioral Tech with Dr. Marsha Linehan. Linda also completed PTSD Exposure Treatment Training with Dr. Linehan and Dr. Melanie Harned through Behavioral Tech. Additionally, Linda completed training for complex PTSD with treatment developer Martin Bohus, M.D. Linda attends frequent Continuing Education trainings for DBT Clinicians provided by Dr Marsha Linehan and other DBT Expert Clinicians.
Education
M.S. Counseling, Indiana University
B.A. Psychology, University of Texas – Dallas
License & Certification
Dialectical Behavioral Therapist Linehan Board Certified
Advanced Intensive DBT Training
DBT PTSD Prolonged Exposure Training
DBT Complex PTSD Intensive Training
Licensed Professional Counselor Texas
Susan Shiring Dodge, MSSW, LCSW
Susan Shiring Dodge is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been in private practice for over 10 years. Prior to pursuing her Master of Science in Social Work, Susan was a Certified Public Accountant who worked at Arthur Andersen and a local Dallas firm. As a social worker and therapist , she worked in a variety of settings prior to entering private practice, including Victims Assistance, community mental health and ten years as a social worker/therapist on an inpatient psychiatric unit. After more than 25 years in the mental health field, she continues to love working with her clients and seeing them find effective strategies to improve. During the time Susan worked as an inpatient therapist she became interested in evidence based treatments for patients, with patients often finding therapy ineffective and continuing to suffer. This led her to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy because of the studies finding it helpful to many clients with multiple kinds of issues.
Susan began training in DBT in 2003 and has continued to train along with other members of the Dallas DBT team since that time. Susan is passionate about providing quality care and giving clients concrete skills that they can use in their daily lives rather than just “talk therapy”. She provides therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder, mood disorders such as Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder, anxiety and panic disorders. In addition, she is also trained in Prolonged Exposure therapy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Contact Susan
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Education
Bachelor of Accounting, New Mexico State University
Master of Science in Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington
License, Certification & Training
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Trainings, through Behavioral Tech or University of Washington
DBT Skills Training -2 day. 2003
DBT Intensive Training- 2 weeks 2006
DBT Skills Training Update -2 day 2011
DBT Advanced Intensive- 5 day 2014
DBT Prolonged Exposure Protocol for PTSD- 4 day 2015
(Note that our team was one of the handful of teams chosen for the first University of Washington training after their research studies.)
Getting to Adherence in DBT -3 day 2017
Julie Euseppi, LCSW
Julie is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in Dialectical Behavioral Therapies, Exposure-Based Protocols, and Somatic Experiencing.
Julie graduated from Texas Tech University with Bachelors in Psychology and Social Work. She then pursued her Master’s of Science in Social Work at The University of Texas at Arlington completed in 2002.
Julie’s previous work experiences include as a case manager in the inpatient setting at Richardson Regional Medical Center, a child custody evaluator for Dallas Country, and as a support group coordinator for Baylor’s Bariatric Center of Excellence Surgery Centers. The last 10 years she has worked in mental health disability insurance as a behavioral health claim managerand supervisor. Surprisingly to some her work in disability was a significant motivator in pursuing a mind body approach to therapy.
Julie is a member of a DBT adherent treatment team. She is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Tony Dubose PsyD in 2019 and Prolonged Exposure by Melanie Harned PhD 2021. Julie is also trained in mind body integration techniques including intensively trained in Trauma Sensitive Yoga 2012 with David Emerson, completing her 2 year of Somatic Experiencing with Glyndie Nickerson PhD, and is registered yoga instructor 200hr 2010 at Dallas Yoga Center.
Her diverse work experience, training in DBT and Somatic Experiencing and in movement therapies provides a unique expertise in treating depression, anxiety, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress and complex trauma, chronic pain, overeating, binge eating disorder, mood disorders, self-harming behaviors, suicidal ideation, codependency. Julie’s clients often also experience comorbid physical ailments such as autoimmune, chronic pain, migraines, GI issues, or related somatic disorders. Julie primarily works with adults and young adults from 18 years of age or older.
Contact Julie
972-918-0170
Education and Training
Bachelors in Psychology and Social Work Texas Tech University
Master of Science in Social Work University of Texas at Arlington
License & Certification
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
DBT Intensive Training, Behavioral Tech, 2019
Prolonged ExposureIntensive Training, with treatment developer Melanie Harned, 2021
Trauma Sensative Yoga, David Emerson, 2012
Somatic Experiencing 2 year, Glyndie Nickerson, PhD