Michele Espinoza is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Personal Coach in private practice in the Washington D.C./Northern Virginia area. She has offered Dialectical Behavior Training (DBT) therapy to groups and individuals for many years and also works with significant others to support and educate them about Borderline Personality Disorder. In addition, she works with local hospitals to implement DBT protocol on their inpatient psychiatric units.

Questions must be in regards to Dialectical Behavior Therapy as of 4/03, be limited to 5 sentences or less, in lower case, and edited before sending. Due to Ms. Espinoza's schedule and my own, all questions may not be answered. 

This service is not to be used in emergencies or as a substitute for formal treatment. Please limit your inquiry to five sentences or less. Thank you

If you question is not answered here, most likely you will find it answered under author Paul Mason's archive or Dr. Paul Markovitz's archive.

Send in your question to and NOT at her office email address . It is important that you keep these boundaries. Her office email address is only to be used for scheduling appointments for therapy.

Michele provides services at her office, by phone, and via email and can be reached at [email protected] or through her website at: www.olivebranchconsulting.net.   

1) How a Family Member Can Convince Their Loved One to Seek Help

2) Person who has BPD reports worsening in the evenings.

3) Do People With BPD Need Medications the Rest of Their Lives?

4) Husband and Young Daughter Need Advice on Handling Wife's BPD Rages

5) How to Fight Wrong BPD Diagnosis

6)Wife Asks How to Leave Spouse with BPD Without Putting Him Into Crisis

7) Psychodynamic and DBT Treatment

8) Concerns over Mother Assisting Very Disabled Daughter Who Has the BPD

9) How to Help Someone with BPD

10) Can People with the BPD be Faithful to Their Partners?

11) Person With Overeating Issues and BPD

12) BPD Treatment Discussed using the Psychodynamic "Approach"

13) Dealing with 80 Year Old Mother In-Law with BPD rages.

14) Is Hearing Voices Part of BPD?

15) Treatment Recommendations for the BPD

16) DBT use in hospital settings

17) Differences between DBT and cognitive behavior therapy (DBT)

18) Characteristics of BPD and Treatment

Updated:  10/07/03

Locating a DBT Trained Therapist

To locate a DBT trained therapist near you go to Behavioral Tech online and ask them who is close to you. 

Also we have a list of some DBT Therapists here.

Michele has no more information on this than what is listed.