THE DBT CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON

What THE DBT CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON does

THE DBT CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON is a privately held outpatient mental health practice founded in 2018 by Mark Becker, LCSW-C, and headquartered at 6010 Executive Blvd, Suite 206, Rockville, MD 20852. The practice provides Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), an evidence-based modality used to treat emotion dysregulation, self-harm, trauma, anxiety, depression, substance use, and eating disorders in adolescents and adults. Its service portfolio covers the four standard DBT components (Individual Therapy, Skills Training, Phone Coaching, and Consultation Team) and adds two supplementary components (Consultation to the Environment/Parent Coaching and Family Therapy), plus the specialized DBT Prolonged Exposure (DBT PE) trauma protocol under expert supervision from Drs. Sara Schmidt and Samantha Yard.

The clinical team comprises approximately nine providers including DBT-Linehan Board certified clinicians and DBT-PE trained therapists, with multi-state licensure (MD, VA, DC, MN, WI, NY) enabling in-person sessions at the Rockville office and telehealth delivery across at least six states. Revenue is generated through fees for individual therapy, group skills training, phone coaching, family work, and DBT PE, with appointment intake handled via phone, email, and the website contact form. The practice historically accepted insurance but has announced that it will stop accepting all insurance effective June 11, 2026, indicating a pivot to a private-pay revenue model. The business is bootstrapped and founder-owned, with no disclosed institutional investors, acquisitions, funding rounds, or ancillary locations. Distribution is purely direct-to-consumer through its website, telehealth platform, and word-of-mouth referrals.

Name

THE DBT CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON

Legal name

The DBT Center of Greater Washington

Website

https://dbtcentergw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

THE DBT CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON is a private outpatient mental health practice in Rockville, MD that delivers evidence-based Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) including individual therapy, skills training, phone coaching, and DBT-PE trauma care to adolescents and adults across six U.S. states via in-person and telehealth.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mental Health Therapy Services

NAICS

Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) (621330)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Outpatient Mental Health Clinics & Counseling Centers (HLAFACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Behavioral Health for Children & Adolescents (Youth Services) (HLAFACAL), General Mental Health Therapy Platforms (Talk Therapy) (HLALAEAA)

Keywords

• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Mental health services
• DBT skills training
• Trauma treatment
• Individual therapy

Headquarters

HQ city

Rockville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Therapy Session Fees: The practice generates revenue through fees for individual therapy sessions, skills training groups, and related DBT services. Previously accepted insurance; will transition to not accepting insurance as of June 11th, 2026, indicating a shift to private-pay model.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

The DBT Center of Greater Washington provides comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and mental health services for adolescents and adults. Its core offering is the full standard DBT program (Individual Therapy, Skills Training, Phone Coaching, Consultation Team) plus two additional components — Consultation to the Environment/Parent Coaching and Family Therapy — along with the specialized DBT Prolonged Exposure (DBT PE) trauma treatment. Services are delivered in-person at the Rockville, MD office and via telehealth across multiple states.

Product overview

The DBT Center of Greater Washington provides Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) services as a single, unified mental health practice offering comprehensive therapeutic care. The core services include Individual Therapy, Skills Training (group format covering Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness), Phone Coaching, Consultation Team, Parent Services/Consultation to the Environment, Family Therapy, and specialized DBT Prolonged Exposure (DBT PE) trauma treatment. Services are delivered in-person at their Rockville, MD location and via Telehealth platform for remote clients across multiple states. The practice operates with a team of licensed clinicians providing the complete DBT treatment model.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Individual Therapy

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Dr. Sara Schmidt and Dr. Samantha YardcoreOthersDBT PE therapists at The DBT Center participate in DBT PE Consultation Team under the expert guidance of Dr. Sara Schmidt and Dr. Samantha Yard. This represents clinical consultation and training support for DBT Prolonged Exposure therapy services.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Rogers Behavioral Health: A large, multi-site behavioral health system with dedicated DBT programs across residential, partial hospitalization, and outpatient levels of care. It is comparable as a scaled, established DBT provider competing for similar high-acuity patients, though it operates at far greater scale and breadth than the anchor.
• McLean Hospital: Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital running one of the original Linehan DBT programs and affiliated outpatient DBT services. It is comparable as a heritage DBT provider that trains clinicians and sets treatment standards, but operates in a much wider behavioral health portfolio.

Emerging players

• Sandstone Care: Adolescent and young adult behavioral health provider with DBT-informed IOP/PHP and outpatient programs in the Mid-Atlantic and Colorado. It competes directly for the DBT Center's adolescent and family segment in overlapping DC-area markets.
• Lyra Health: Employer-sponsored mental health platform offering therapy, coaching, and psychiatry via in-network and virtual providers. It overlaps with the DBT Center's therapy delivery model and target population, but at enterprise scale with technology-enabled matching.
• Cerebral: Telehealth provider of therapy and medication management for anxiety, depression, and ADHD. It competes for the same adult self-pay mental health customer and overlaps on DBT-style skill work, though it has historically positioned around anxiety/depression rather than full DBT.
• Charlie Health: A virtual intensive outpatient program (IOP) for adolescents and young adults using DBT and other evidence-based modalities. It targets the same high-acuity adolescent and family segment as the DBT Center, but at national scale and with insurance-driven contracting.
• Brightside Health: Virtual mental health provider delivering therapy and psychiatry, including evidence-based protocols for depression and anxiety. It is a comparable virtual, self-pay/insurance hybrid competitor operating in the same broad outpatient behavioral health category.
• Talkiatry: Insurance-based virtual psychiatry platform employing clinicians across many states. It competes for adjacent behavioral health demand in the same geographies (MD, VA, DC, NY) where the DBT Center also operates, though it focuses on medication management rather than DBT.

Direct peers

• Talkspace: Online therapy marketplace matching clients to licensed therapists across multiple states, including modalities such as DBT and CBT. It competes directly with the DBT Center for self-pay and insured virtual therapy patients, with a much broader clinician network.

Others

• Behavioral Tech: The training and dissemination arm founded by Dr. Marsha Linehan that runs intensive DBT and DBT-PE trainings and certifies clinicians. It is an upstream ecosystem participant that shapes the DBT talent pool the DBT Center draws from and competes against.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-dbt-center-of-greater-washington

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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