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About These Speakers

Andrea Gottlieb (she/her) is a psychologist and Clinical Director of a new Baltimore area location of a psychotherapy practice, The Bethesda Group. Dr. Gottlieb is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician.

Dr. Gottlieb earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver, where she focused her studies on the development of depression and nonsuicidal self-injury. She completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gottlieb then joined Sheppard Pratt, where she started and directed the Comprehensive Outpatient DBT Program. She additionally served as co-founder of the Sheppard Pratt LGBTQ+ Inclusivity Committee.

Dr. Gottlieb has presented on DBT numerous times, taught many students and staff DBT principles and skills, published over a dozen articles on depression and self-harm in peer reviewed journals, and consults about DBT locally and nationally. Dr. Gottlieb also serves as a supervisor for psychiatry residents in the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt psychiatry residency program, where she trains residents in DBT.

Sarah Loeffler, LCSW-C is a clinical social worker in the Neuropsychiatry Program at Sheppard Pratt, specializing in concussion and traumatic brain injury treatment. She earned her Masters of Social Work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She has worked with individuals with concussion and TBI and their families for over 25 years, providing individual and family therapy in outpatient settings over the continuum of rehabilitation. Her approach to treatment is one that focuses on problem solving, psychoeducation, and a cognitive rehabilitation approach to compensatory strategies to manage aspects of emotional and cognitive functioning post-concussion and TBI.. 

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Andrea Gottlieb, PhD & Sarah Loeffler, LCSW-C, report that they have no relationships with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients during the past 24 months. They will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All conflicts have been mitigated through review. 

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis J. Marino, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, April Sobiech, LCSW-C, Latia Suite, LCSW-C, Rachel Smolowitz, PhD, Tom Flis, LCPC, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Stephanie M. Robinson, MSN, RN, Lisa E. Seldon, DNP, MSA, RN, NEA-BC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.