About Us
Mission
The WVU Dialectical Behavior Therapy Services Program (DBTSP) aims to empower people to improve their lives through the technology of behavioral change.
We strive to provide compassionate, evidence-based treatment for life-threatening, high-risk behaviors in people with complex psychiatric disorders by honoring the following goals of DBT:
- Enhance and maintain patients' motivation for change
- Enhance and maintain patients' skills and capabilities
- Enhance and maintain therapists' motivation to treat patients
- Enhance and maintain therapists' skills
- Structure the treatment environment to be conducive to behavioral change
DBT Consultation Team Members
Dr. Chantel Weisenmuller (she/her)
Bessie Tadlock-Jimenez (she/her)