Consultant Trainer
Amy Gaglia Essletzbichler is an accredited Dialectical Behaviour Therapist and Supervisor (SfDBT) and a consultant trainer in DBT. She currently serves as the Co-Deputy Director of the PG Dip in DBT at Bangor University, a program funded by NHS England. Additionally, Amy volunteers with the Society for DBT, where she holds the position of Chair.
Amy has been practising DBT since 2002, beginning with her training as part of her MSW, which included a year-long internship in DBT at New York Hospital’s Payne Whitney Outpatient and Day Hospital Programs. From 2003 to 2008, she was a founding member and team manager of the Newham DBT Team, completing intensive training in DBT in 2004 in Northampton, USA, provided by BTech.
In 2008-2009, Amy established a DBT-informed transitional living program for individuals with severe and enduring mental illness at Project Transition in Philadelphia, PA, USA. She has also worked in SLaM adult services. Amy is experienced in working with a diverse range of populations and is trained in and experienced with Family Connections, DBT-PE, Affect Phobia Therapy, and RO-DBT.
Amy has contributed to research, including conducting an effectiveness trial on DBT versus TAU in the NHS (https://doi.org/10.1159/000338897). She is a calibrated DBT adherence rater (DBT ACS) and, in 2024, completed her PhD, which focused on researching DBT therapist behaviour.