Dr. April Sobieralski is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician™. She received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Xavier University in 2012 and is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is the founder of LakeWest DBT Center, an outpatient therapy clinic. Her area of expertise is in adherent Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and she has been intensively trained by Behavioral Tech, LLC trainers. April has experience using DBT to treat many disorders involving emotion dysregulation and eating disorder symptomology. April specializes in behavioral treatments, in addition to cognitive-behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for children, adolescents, and adults with a wide range of social and emotional difficulties. She also uses exposure-based therapies to treat symptoms related to trauma, including having advanced intensive training in the DBT Prolonged Exposure Therapy Protocol for PTSD. April offers supervision, consultation, and training for colleagues seeking continuing education and has provided training for specialization in DBT and DBT workshops for community centers. April was presented with the Outstanding Early Career Psychologist Award in 2016 from the Cleveland Psychological Association (CPA) and currently volunteers her time on the Board of Trustees of CPA as the President.