Elizabeth B. Horner, M.Ed, LPC has been in private practice in the Charlottesville community since 2004. She has a breadth of experience treating a wide array of clientele ranging from elementary aged children through adult seniors. During her career, she has worked in inpatient, outpatient, elementary/middle schools and vocational rehabilitation settings. As such, she has expertise in the treatment of a variety of diagnoses and conditions including but not limited to depressive disorders, anxiety and associated disorders and personality disorders. Ms. Horner provides both individual and group psychotherapy services psychodynamically informed and tailored to meet the needs of each individual client. She introduced a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group treatment program into the Charlottesville Community in 2005 and has been leading both adult and adolescent DBT groups ever since. Ms. Horner’s own introduction to DBT was in the early 1990’s when she was working at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center on a long-term inpatient Borderline Personality Disorder Unit. It was at that time that DBT was piloted as an additional and alternative approach to treating BPD. Currently, Ms. Horner provides individual, group, couples, and family therapy. She also frequently works with other clinicians in the community to provide DBT skills teaching/coaching services to their clients as a supplement to their client’s individual treatment.

Education:

• B.A. , Psychology, Oberlin College, 1989

• M.A., Counseling Psychology,  Columbia University/Teachers College, 1990

• M.Ed, Counseling Psychology, Columbia University/Teachers College, 1991 

Mark S. Horner, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 35 years of experience in the provision of psychodynamic, attachment -oriented, and interpersonal psychotherapy to adults and adolescents. Dr. Horner completed doctoral training in clinical psychology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and residency training at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, where he was a fellow in specialty treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Dr. Horner first came to Charlottesville in 1995 to join Student Health, Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) at the University of Virginia, where he also served as Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatric Medicine. Dr. Horner specializes in emotion-focused, relational psychotherapy for trauma-related disorders, mood disorders, and problems in interpersonal relationships. He offers brief and long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, as well as Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression (IPT-D), an evidence-based treatment for depression and grief. Dr. Horner has extensive experience in consultation and clinical supervision with mental health professionals, and is currently National Consultant for IPT-D training in the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Education: 

• B.S., Psychology, Trinity College, 1984

• M.S. Clinical Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1987

• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 1992