Dr Vibh Forsythe Cox is the director of the Marsha M. Linehan DBT Clinic at the University of Washington. She is a DBT-Linehan Board-certified clinician who works to advance the development, improvement, and provision of DBT training and consulting services.

Dr Forsythe Cox is also a Licensed Psychologist at Cadence Child and Adolescent Therapy, a certified DBT program in Kirkland, Washington. There, she provides DBT and other evidence-based treatments for teens and adults with emotion regulation difficulties.

Dr Forsythe Cox earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at The Ohio State University, where her research focused on characteristics of Borderline Personality Disorder and interpersonal emotion regulation. During her time at the Ohio State University,

Dr Forsythe Cox participated in a year of specialized training in DBT and the following year, assisted the supervisor of the DBT Practicum program by providing supervision and consultation to new trainees. She was also the 2012 recipient of the Psychology Department’s Meritorious Teaching Award.

Dr Forsythe Cox has experience providing DBT in a variety of settings, including university-based research, inpatient and outpatient hospitals, forensics, and private practice facilities. She is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington, where she provides individual and group supervision to doctoral psychology students in the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics (BRTC).