Matthew Ditty, DSW, LCSW :: Consultant & Trainer
Dr. Ditty has been a social worker and mental health clinician since 2003. He is the founder and clinical director of The Ebright Collaborative, LLC – a free-standing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program in Wilmington, Delaware. He is also a part-time instructor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Social Work program, and a trainer and consultant with The Treatment Implementation Collaborative, LLC. He began his career in the Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and continued it as a psychotherapist in private practice. He has held part-time and consulting positions with the United States Navy, the Positive Psychology Center, Recovery at Penn, and others, performing tasks such as counseling 911 survivors, providing clinical supervision, and enacting treatment protocol for several research studies.
Dr. Ditty’s primary expertise and passion is for implementing evidence-based treatments for suicide, non-suicidal self-injury, and post-traumatic stress disorder. He has received Core Clinical Training in DBT by Dr. Shari Manning, he has served as a member of Dr. Marsha Linehan's DBT Strategic Planning Meeting in Seattle, and he is a published researcher on DBT Implementation.
Dr. Ditty is a Certified DBT Clinician by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification.