“If you’re a tulip, don’t try to be a rose. Go find a tulip garden.”

Born and raised a Texas Longhorn, Madeline completed her BA in Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin and her MSW in Social Work at The University of Texas at Arlington. Madeline did her graduate internships at The Center for Addiction and Recovery Studies and at Parkland Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry in Dallas, Texas. Madeline has built her clinical practice around the treatment of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, emotion dysregulation, interpersonal issues, trauma, and PTSD in adult populations.

For nearly 10 years, her clinical experience includes working in both hospital and outpatient psychiatry clinic settings at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, and working at an adherent DBT program, Austin DBT Associates in Austin, Texas, as a Lead Clinician.

Madeline is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She has completed the requirements for the DBT-Linehan Board Certification (DBT-LBC) and is pending the final review process for certification. Madeline is also a certified provider in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for treatment of PTSD, and completed intensive training and consultation for the DBT Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE) Protocol for treatment of PTSD.