Dr. Rathus, co-founder and co-director of Cognitive Behavioral Associates, is an internationally recognized DBT & CBT expert working with both youth & adults. Dr. Rathus and colleagues developed the adolescent/family adaptation of DBT. Her books DBT with Suicidal Adolescents and DBT Skills for Suicidal Adolescents are the primary texts for Dialectical Behavior Therapy with teens and families.
As a tenured faculty member at Long Island University-Post Campus, her areas of specialty include assessment evaluations, relationship distress, depression, anxiety disorders, writing coaching & writing anxiety, PTSD, suicidality, and borderline personality disorder, and she publishes widely in these areas in books & peer-reviewed journals. She has also authored books on topics including couples therapy, assessment of family violence, and adapting DBT for school settings.
In 2016 she was honored to receive the Cindy Sanderson Outstanding Educator Award from the International Society of Education and Training in DBT (ISITDBT). Dr. Rathus graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in English, received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stony Brook University, and completed her clinical internship at Montefiore Medical Center/Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Rathus has trained thousands of mental health professionals in both the US and abroad.
