she definitely has training beyond DBT, she's been a T for 20 years and worked in crisis management/community mental health for a long time before she got the DBT training and went into private practice.

but is she really into the DBT program? definitely. And meeting more than once a week isn't outside the DBT parameters, Linehan even suggests in her book that it can be useful at times.

I do wonder if my T doesn't have the same concern about dependency that tayquincy mentioned.

I'm just going to have to wait and talk to her about it more on Monday, maybe between now and then I can figure out what I want to say.