Dorian Hunter, Ph.D. :: Consultant & Trainer
Dorian Hunter, Ph.D. is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician and licensed clinical psychologist in Washington State. She is the co-founder of the DBT Center of Tacoma, an independent DBT training clinic located in Tacoma, Washington, as well as a member of the clinical faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. She trains and provides consultation to DBT teams with TIC, teaching individual DBT clinicians and DBT teams around the world hoping to implement DBT, increase their treatment fidelity and competence, and improve clinical skills. She has provided continuing education training and workshops on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness and mindfulness-based interventions, alcohol and other substance use disorders, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). She also trains students and fellows within the Greater Seattle DBT Training Consortium, co-directing the DBT training team. Additionally, she provides training and supervision to graduate students via the Marsha M. Linehan DBT clinic housed at the University of Washington in the department of psychology.
Dr. Hunter completed her undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, and post-doctoral training at the University of Washington Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics (BRTC), under the direction of the DBT treatment developer, Dr. Marsha Linehan. At the BRTC she worked as a research assistant, treatment coordinator, research fellow, and study therapist on multiple studies of DBT, including pilot studies and clinical trials focused on development and evaluation of DBT for clients with suicidal behaviors, alcohol and other substance use disorders, and in multi-family DBT for adolescents and their parents. Dr. Hunter completed her Master and Doctoral degrees at Rutgers University, where she was a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) fellow throughout her training. Her graduate work focused primarily on learning and evaluating cognitive behavioral interventions for alcohol and other substance use disorders, particularly through the lens of interpersonal functioning. She additionally completed a clinical post-doctoral fellowship at the Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle, with specialized training in DBT and interventions for anxiety disorders. Dr. Hunter has published book chapters and articles on DBT and other evidence-based interventions and underlying psychological processes related to behavior change.
Dorian is a Certified DBT Clinician by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification.