Faculty
Behavioral Tech Institute prides itself in providing the highest quality training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy available. We can only offer this to you by providing the most experienced and trainers & consultants in the field of DBT. We honor each one of these individuals for their efforts and dedication to DBT and other empirically-based treatments.
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Auckland, New Zealand
Mike Batcheler is a New Zealand-based, registered clinical psychologist who has worked in mental health services since the mid-1990s and corrections in the early 1990s. He was a founding member of New Zealand’s first dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) programme in 1998 and was intensively trained in DBT in 2000. He is a founding member of DBTNZ – an International Affiliate of the Linehan Instituted established to advance adherent DBT practice in New Zealand. He currently works as a DBT therapist, skills trainer and programme coordinator in an adult DBT programme. He was a research therapist on a NZ DBT trial with self-harming adolescents and their families. Mike has considerable experience consulting and providing DBT training across a range of formats and settings. He lives in Auckland.
