MBT for Adolescents Training

Dr. Carla Sharp is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Houston and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, and director of the Adolescent Diagnosis Assessment Prevention and Treatment (ADAPT) clinic and the Developmental Psychopathology Lab. Her work has significantly advanced the scientific understanding of the phenomenology, causes, correlates and treatment of personality pathology across the lifespan, with a specific focus on mentalizing as cause, correlate and mechanism of change. She has published over 380 peer reviewed publications, 50 book chapters and 8 books, including Mentalizing in Psychotherapy. Her research has been continuously funded by the NIH for over a decade. She is the recipient of the 2016 Mid-Career Award, North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, and the 2018 Award for Achievement in the Field of Severe Personality Disorders from the Personality Disorders Institute and Borderline Personality Disorder Resource Center, New York, the Kernberg Award, for foundational contribution to the study of personality pathology in youth in 2024, and she is listed as top 2% of scientists worldwide. She serves as editor or co-editor on multiple journals. She served on the American Psychiatry Association workgroup for updating the APA guidelines for BPD and a workgroup for evaluation of nosological changes for personality disorder. She is a licensed psychologist and continues to be clinically active.

Holly Dwyer Hall, PsychD, is a registered child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Dynamic Interpersonal Therapist, Arts Psychotherapist and qualified Mentalization Based Treatment practitioner, supervisor and trainer with children, adolescents and families and MBT Practitioner with adults. She currently lectures on the Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy with UCL, Anna Freud (AFC) and the British Psychotherapy Foundation (bpf) and on the Early Child Development and Clinical Applications MSc at UCL. 

Holly has published papers and chapters on mentalization based treatments, rupture and resolution processes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the practice of infant observation.  Her clinical work spans 25 years in both child and adult services in the UK’s National Health Service, social care and the private sector.  She has worked in a service for adults with a diagnosis of EUPD and currently provides assessment and treatment for children, young people and families who have experienced early complex trauma.  She is the current Lead for Psychodynamic Psychotherapies and MBT with children, young people and families and in the Family Trauma team at Anna Freud.