Andrea Gottlieb (she/her) is a clinical psychologist. She currently works at The Bethesda Group and is the Clinical Director at the Baltimore location and the Training Director for the Comprehensive DBT Externship for both psychology and psychiatry trainees. 

Andrea earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver, where she focused her studies on the development of depression and nonsuicidal self-injury in youth. She then completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School where she first learned about DBT in various settings. Upon moving to Maryland, she joined Sheppard Pratt, where she started and directed the Comprehensive Outpatient DBT Program. Andrea volunteers time for the Linehan Board of Certification on a legislative committee aimed at improving insurance-based access to DBT.

Working with new DBT clinicians is a passion for Andrea. She has experience training staff in inpatient, residential, partial, and outpatient levels of care in using DBT in non-traditional and adherent settings. She has presented on DBT numerous times, taught many students and staff DBT principles and skills, and published over a dozen articles on depression and self-harm in peer reviewed journals. She also assisted in the creation and implementaion of hospital-wide procedures for suicide assessment/management and care for LGBTQ+ individuals. 

Andrea is a Certified DBT Clinician by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification.

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