It all started in 2010 in the basement office of the Xavier University Psychological Services Center.  Nikki was there, in the midst of her DBT training, and she was dreaming big.  She had always known that she wanted to create her own therapy practice, but there in that basement office, she realized she wanted to offer the community something unlike any other practice - a reliable hub to which the community could turn for adherent DBT treatment, training, and education, not only locally but nationally.  And it would be called the Cincinnati Center for DBT.

A decade later, Nikki officially founded Cincinnati Center for DBT.  We strive to be the practice our community trusts to provide DBT as it was designed by the treatment developer, Dr. Marsha Linehan.  We are also passionate about providing evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).

We are the practice you can trust that, when you come to us for DBT, you will receive DBT.  So many clients seek DBT from therapists who are not actually providing DBT, and they do not even realize it.  We are here to be your resource for education about what adherent DBT is, and isn’t.  We are here to be the practice where clinicians and clinical trainees come to receive excellent DBT and CBT training.  We are here to educate the community and help clients advocate for themselves. We are here to increase clinicians’ awareness and knowledge of adherent DBT and related topics.

We are here to help people effectively reduce their suffering.