Minal Shah

Minal Shah, MRC, NCC, LPC, is CEO and Clinical Director of the Atlanta DBT Center, with nearly four decades of experience bridging medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and rehabilitation sciences. Intensively trained in a suite of evidence-based modalities—including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Prolonged Exposure DBT (DBT-PE), Radically Open DBT (RO-DBT), Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT), and psychodrama—she offers a uniquely comprehensive therapeutic skill set.
Dr. Shah has developed a specialized focus on the psychiatric diagnosis and management of endometriosis, addressing how chronic pelvic pain, infertility, and hormonal treatment intersect with mood, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders. By aligning psychotherapeutic innovation with gynecologic and endocrine care, she promotes truly multidisciplinary treatment models that improve quality of life and reduce the psychiatric burden of reproductive disorders.

She contributed to the DSM-V research for Borderline Personality Disorder and has presented nationally at the Georgia Psychological Association, the Licensed Professional Counselor Association, NAMI, and the advisory board for Skyland Trail. In 2015, she co-launched the nation’s first insurance-funded behavioral health immersion program for adult women, integrating DBT, RO-DBT, DBT-ACES, and MBT.

Currently, she is authoring the inaugural Stage III & IV DBT modules, positioning Atlanta DBT as the only clinic worldwide offering a full four-stage DBT protocol. She also secured state and federal grants to expand DBT and RO-DBT clinician training across Georgia hospitals and community boards.
Her work advances a forward-thinking, curative model that bridges psychiatry and reproductive endocrinology—moving patient care beyond symptom management based on clinical impressions toward genuine remission and treatment completion guided by comprehensive differential diagnosis.