Dr. Bethany Michel is a registered psychologist in British Columbia and Ontario. She is the Director of the Child, Adolescent, & Family Division of the DBT Centre of Vancouver, where she runs DBT treatment programs for children (ages 5-12) and adolescents (ages 13-19) with severe emotion dysregulation, personality disorders, and suicide and self-harm behaviors, as well as parenting interventions for families struggling with these issues. She is also a lecturer in the Clinical Area of the Department of Psychology and in the School of Applied Child Psychology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), teaching undergraduate courses on psychopathology and graduate courses on psychological interventions for children and adolescents.
Dr. Michel received her B.A. from Stanford University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical science from Harvard University, where she specialized in child and adolescent suicide and self-harm behaviors. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Brown University, receiving specialized training in child and adolescent mood and anxiety disorders and sleep disorders. She has published scientific articles on assessment and treatment of adolescent mood disorders and self-harm and has given presentations on her research at scientific conferences.
Dr. Michel provides direct psychological services to child and adolescent clients (and their families) with complex presentations, emotion dysregulation, borderline personality disorder, and suicide and self-harm behaviors. She also provides training and supervision in DBT to graduate students and post-doctoral fellows at the DBT Centre of Vancouver. Additionally, she provides workshops for mental health professionals, teachers, and parents in both Canada and the U.S. on understanding and managing child and adolescent emotion dysregulation and suicide and self-harm behaviors.
Dr. Michel enjoys spending her free time in and around the ocean and spending time with her husband, teenage son, and their snorting loaf of a pug.