Dale Terilli, Director & Co-Founder
dale@theconnectionsplace.org
Dale received a certificate as a Life Skills Coach in 2006 at Stonebridge
Associated College. For more than three decades Dale worked at the New York Presbyterian Hospital in the Therapeutic
Activity Department. In 1996 she was trained in DBT and was the Admission Coordinator and Treatment Coordinator in the
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Day Program. Later she worked at the Mount Sinai Medical Center where she was the Clinical
Coordinator of the DBT Outpatient Program. Her work in DBT also includes co-leading DBT Family Groups, coordinating
the College Outpatient program for BPD students, providing seminars to professionals on DBT, giving lectures on DBT to the
community and other groups, and leading a DBT consultation team at the Westchester Jewish Community Services for the last
four years. Currently, she is also a Board Member of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder.
Beth Elliott, Ph.D., Co-Founder
beth@theconnectionsplace.org
Beth received a MSW degree from New York University in 2009 and a Certificate in Psychiatric
Vocational Rehabilitation in 2006 for coursework at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University.
She is a Board Member of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder, and along with other Board Members
has raised awareness of BPD on Captiol Hill, including the House Resolution (H. Res. 1005) passed in 2008 recognizing May
as Borderline Personality Disorder Month. By profession, she has her doctorate in genetics, and for nearly two decades
has done genetic research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the Sloan Kettering Institute.
Richard Konet, Managing Consultant
Vocational Coach Interns
