Francie is a licensed marriage and family therapist as well as a DBT- Linehan Board of Certification, Certified DBT Clinician. She completed Behavioral Tech’s Intensive DBT training in 2012 and the Advanced Intensive DBT training (taught by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D.) in 2014. In addition, Francie has been trained in DBT Prolonged Exposure (DBT PE) to address trauma and Radically Open DBT (RO DBT) to work with clients who struggle with emotional over-control. Francie received her masters and got her training in Chicago, IL. She worked as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in both community mental health and private practice settings in Chicago from 2000-2009. Francie relocated to the Bay Area in 2009, where she earned her Marriage and Family Therapist license. Since joining SFDBT in 2010 she has been co-facilitating skills groups, providing individual DBT and doing couples counseling from a DBT perspective. Her training is in cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic therapy and she draws from both in order to fit the unique needs and circumstances of each client. Francie has additional expertise in working with women who are pregnant and post-partum and enjoys working on parenting techniques.
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