Amy Cunningham, Psy.D

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING and EDUCATION:
I am a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified DBT Clinician with over 10 years of experience providing evidence-based treatments. I earned my doctoral degree from La Salle University. Prior to graduation, I had the privilege of completing a one-year internship at Yale University in the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Intensive Outpatient Program, where I received specialized training in providing DBT to individuals with borderline personality disorder. During this time, I also completed the intensive training in DBT developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan, the founder of DBT. Following my graduation, I was granted the opportunity to complete my postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania in the Aaron T. Beck’s Psychopathology Research Center and work directly under the supervision of Dr. Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy. Upon completing my postdoctoral training, I was awarded a Research Associate position to continue working with Dr. Beck.

CONTINUOUS LEARNING:

In 2017, I became a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified DBT Clinician. This board certification is a year-long, rigorous process involving multiple steps to certify that I provided adherent DBT to the standards set by the research and Dr. Linehan, the treatment developer. In addition, I have completed multiple trainings in DBT-Prolonged Exposure. In these trainings, I was trained to incorporate Prolonged Exposure, the gold standard evidence-based treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, into a DBT framework.