BOARD OF DIRECTORS
2025 ISITDBT Board Members
Vibh Forsythe Cox, PhD
Board Member
Vibh Forsythe Cox, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification certified clinician. She earned her Doctorate from The Ohio State University. Dr. Forsythe Cox has delivered DBT in a variety of settings including Maximum security forensic inpatient, Veterans Affairs medical centers, University Psychological services centers, and private outpatient clinics.
At present, Dr. Forsythe Cox is the Director of the Marsha M. Linehan Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Clinic at the University of Washington. The MML DBT clinic is a specialty training clinic where advanced graduate students are trained in DBT. Through the support of generous donors, the MML DBT clinic is able to provide comprehensive DBT for clients with limited resources. Dr. Forsythe Cox is also a Trainer and Consultant for Behavioral Tech, LLC (BTECH). In her work with Behavioral Tech, Dr. Forsythe Cox provides consultation and training to DBT teams internationally, and specializes in working with newly forming DBT teams. She is also the Training and Development Specialist at BTECH, working as part of the team that creates content for BTECH’s training offerings. Dr. Forsythe Cox was part of the team that helped develop BTECH’s online training offerings, which have helped increase access to DBT training for many professionals internationally.
Alison Tebbet-Mock, PhD
Board Secretary
Alison Tebbett-Mock, PhD is a Supervising Psychologist at Northwell, Zucker Hillside Hospital in Queens, NY since 2013. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. She is the DBT team leader for the acute-care adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit and engages in program development, consultation, the provision of psychotherapy for adolescent inpatients and their families, supervision of psychology trainees, teaching and mentoring of multidisciplinary team members, and research. Her interests include dissemination and implementation of empirically based treatments for youth and their families particularly DBT, trauma specific cognitive behavioral therapies, and milieu interventions. Dr. Tebbett-Mock earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Child Clinical Psychology in 2013 at St. John’s University, NY.
Aditi Vijay, Ed.M., PhD
President
Aditi Vijay, Ed.M., Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Suicide Prevention. She is an Assistant Professor in the combined School and Clinical Psychology doctoral program at Kean University. Her clinical and research interests focus on improving quality of life for adolescents and emerging adults with a focus on those who self-harm or experience chronic suicidal ideation and improving access to care for underserved populations.
Her current research focuses on dissemination and implementation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, the function of DBT consultation teams, and the role of emotion dysregulation in the maintenance of trauma symptoms. She completed her Master’s in Education, with a specialization in Risk and Prevention, at Harvard University and her doctorate in Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno.