Betty Bae, LCSW-C

Betty Bae received her Bachelor's degree from Colgate University. She received her Master of Science from Columbia University School of Social Work in 2006, where she started her training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Betty is licensed in Maryland and Virginia with licenses pending in New Hampshire and Florida to provide telehealth services.

Betty's interest has always been working with complex problems, behaviors, and symptoms driven by emotional and cognitive dysregulation in invalidating environments. She started her work in Washington DC, working in the foster care system which provided experience in how to handle dialectical perspectives and intense interpersonal conflict. Betty worked 7 years in the juvenile justice system at a male detention facility. She started as a behavioral health specialist, became the diagnostic coordinator and wrote Certificate of Need evaluations for the court systems to help determine recommended levels of care for detained youth, and ended her experience there as the DBT informed Services Coordinator and Clinical Supervisor. She also had several projects including working with those that repeatedly violated the conditions of their probation and used behavioral chain analysis and solution analysis to share in court for an understanding of patterns in problematic behaviors and how to change behaviors. Betty also worked in a hospital residential unit for juvenile sex offenders focusing on both offending behaviors and individuals with severe trauma history. She also worked for a domestic violence private practice working with children impacted by experiencing trauma in their home and being court ordered to therapy. In 2012, Betty began her experience in the outpatient DBT world at Rathbone and Associates. In that time, she has gone through several intensive trainings including DBT with adolescents, Behavioral Tech trainings on DBT, DBT-PE trainings and individual supervision with Melanie Harned, DBT with families with Alan Fruzetti, and participated in a course for professionals on Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. In 2019, Betty also joined the DBT team at the DBT Center of Greater Washington. At this time, her shift focused on working with adults and also adding experience in DBT parent coaching. In 2023, she moved over to the DBT Center full time and continues working with the full age range of adolescents, young adults, adults, and parent coaching services. She has special interests in working with individuals that have suicidal ideations, self-harm behaviors, anxiety disorders, Borderline Personality Disorder, and PTSD/trauma, focusing on what is effective and working towards a life worth living. She has experience as a DBT skills training group leader for adolescents, young adults, and adults and as a DBT individual therapist.