Kirsten McAteer, LPC

Kirsten (she/her) is a licensed therapist, who has been specializing in the treatment of eating disorders for over fifteen years. She became interested in RO DBT when she came across the research pointing to its effectiveness in treating restrictive Anorexia Nervosa. She was among the first American therapists to be intensively trained in the modality and has been on the RO DBT Senior Clinician team since 2015, which has allowed her to benefit from in-depth training and supervision by the treatment developer – Dr. Thomas Lynch. As of October 2021, Kirsten is a certified RO DBT supervisor. If you are interested in receiving clinical supervision in RO DBT, please contact Kirsten directly.

Kirsten holds degrees from New York University and Lewis and Clark College. For several years she was a therapist at the Portland DBT Institute, where she was on the Path to Mindful Eating Team and a DBT trainer. After a stint managing the team, she left to be a Clinical Director of a partial hospitalization program before moving on to start her own private practice and focus on RO DBT. She is a past Chair of the Columbia River Eating Disorder Network, and was, up until 2016, Coordinator of Lewis & Clark College’s Eating Disorder Certificate Program, where she still teaches occasionally as an adjunct. She also gives frequent trainings for professionals. In addition to being trained in RO DBT and DBT, Kirsten has also received extensive training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for trauma and EMDR.

Kirsten is a native of Portland where she lives with her husband, son (who attends college locally), and large labradoodle. She identifies as OC and has found the RO skills invaluable in her own life, in allowing her to get out of her head once in a while, connect more deeply with others, and have more fun. She is thrilled to partner with LiLin in making this treatment available to more OC adults and teens in Portland.

To contact Kirsten directly, call (503) 715-2435 or email kirsten@abriradicallyopendbt.com.