Teaching

Dr. Forsythe Cox is a Clinical Associate professor and the director of the Marsha M. Linehan Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Clinic at the University of Washington. There, she teaches courses and provides supervision to advanced graduate students learning to deliver DBT.   

She is also a trainer and consultant for Behavioral Tech, LLC (BTECH), the training company founded by Dr. Linehan which provides training and consultation for DBT clinicians internationally.  At BTECH she is on staff as a Training and Development Specialist, a role in which she helps create content for BTECH’s training offerings.  Dr. Forsythe Cox was part of the team that developed BTECH’s online trainings, which have increased accessibility to BTECH’s trainings internationally. 

Dr. Forsythe Cox is the child of Afro-Caribbean immigrants and the wife and mother of a multi-racial family.  She supports our DBT community by mentoring professionals who have faced barriers due to their identities as people of color. Dr. Forsythe Cox has given consultation to providers interested in doing anti-racism work on their DBT teams. She is both a member of the ISITDBT board and a founding member of ISITBT’s Antiracism Committee.