Kathryn Broge, LICSW
About Kathryn
Kathryn Broge, LICSW, is the clinical team manager at McLean Hospital’s Borderline Personality Disorder Outpatient Program, which focuses on treatment of complex personality disorders.
As a clinical social worker, Ms. Broge engages with patients in a case management role to identify structure, vocational, and educational pursuits. Individuals with personality disorders often dread, fear, and avoid structure and vocational pursuits.
She also works in the DBT Clinic in McLean’s Adult Outpatient Services, where she runs a weekly dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills group and provides individual DBT therapy.
DBT Skills: The Value of Validation
Kathryn Broge, LICSW, explains the science behind validation and how it differs from reassurance.
