AHEC-SSW Training Partnership
Consultant Information Sheet
Name:
Becca Edwards-Powell, MSW, LCSW
Position/Title:
Training Director and DBT Program Coordinator at Carolina
Outreach
Work Address:
2670 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd., Durham, NC 27707
Work Phone:
919-251-9001, x240
E-mail Address:
reedward25@gmail.com
Fax Number:
919-251-9008
Education/Degrees: BA, MSW
Professional Certifications:
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Nationally Certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Rostered in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Academic Experience:
Clinical Lecture Series Speaker UNC – 2014
Brief Summary of Work Experience:
Rebecca E. Edwards-Powell, LCSW is currently The Training Director and DBT
Program at Carolina Outreach, LLC., where she trains and supervises clinical staff in
CBT and DBT, provides case consultation, helps implement crisis interventions, and
provides psycho educational activities and treatment team services including on
substance abuse, educational, vocational, residential, financial, social, and other nontreatment needs. She is intensively trained in DBT through the Behavioral Tech
Intensive Training and participates in an ongoing Intensive team. She oversees all DBT
services, consultation teams, and development for 40 therapists and over 100 clients
participating in DBT. Previously, she worked as an intensive in-home specialist, client
services director at the Orange County Rape Crisis Center, and support group
coordinator at the Family Violence Prevention Center.
Specialization/Research Areas:
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Borderline Personality Disorder and other disorders involving significant emotional
dysregulation
Adult survivors of sexual and interpersonal violence
Behavior Management for 2-12 year olds
Trauma Focused CBT
Available for presentations on the following:
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy – an overview of the model and starting a DBT program:
what’s involved
Where Angels Fear To Tread: Becoming more effective with emotionally vulnerable
clients (drawing primarily from DBT)
Adult survivors of sexual and interpersonal violence (impact of trauma, establishing
safety, treatment approaches based in CBT)
Behavior Management for 2-12 year olds: Keeping the Caregiver in Charge! (focus on
behavior principles and child development)
Treating trauma in youth (pulling from TF-CBT and SPARCS)
Ethical dilemmas in community-based work