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Confidently Treat Personality Disorders and Become a Certified Provider
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  • Up to 21.5 CE hours
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  • Complete set of downloadable materials
  • FREE certification

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Whether you already work with clients with PD or know you will, this course will equip you with the tools and confidence to achieve lasting results and help your clients thrive.

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Certified Personality Disorder Treatment Provider Course:
Assessment and Treatment Using DBT, CBT, and Other Proven Therapies

$1,129.96 Value
Just $299.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 21.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
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What You’ll Learn

 

Based on the most current research and evidence-based practices this course will have you feeling fully prepared to confidently navigate the unique challenges of each disorder and provide life-changing treatment.

 
Personality Disorders 101
Dive into the key characteristics of the 10 major personality disorders. Understand the neurobiology, attachment styles, and risk factors that shape these conditions, and learn how trauma and co-occurring disorders impact treatment.
 
  • Personality traits vs. Personality disorders
  • Key characteristics of personality disorders
  • 10 personality disorders and cluster overview
    • Cluster A: Paranoid, Schizoid and Schizotypal
    • Cluster B: Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic and Narcissistic
    • Cluster C: Avoidant, Obsessive-Compulsive and Dependent
  • Perception, myths and stigma
  • Co-occurring disorders, SUDs and suicidality
  • PDs across the lifespan
  • Invalidating environments and their impact on PDs
  • Exploring the link between attachment and personality disorders
  • Neurobiology and personality disorders
  • Risk and protective factors

 
Master the Art of Accurate Diagnosis
Learn how to differentiate between personality disorders and other mental health issues. Sharpen your diagnostic skills with real-life case studies and avoid common misdiagnoses with proven assessment tools.
 
  • Critical factors for accurate diagnosis
  • Personality disorder cluster characteristics and core features
  • Case studies
  • How to communicate a diagnosis to clients
  • Avoiding misdiagnosis: surface and core structure
  • Distinguishing between Borderline and Histrionic
  • Culture influences and personality disorders
  • Screening and assessment tools
  • General questions
    • SCID-5
    • Personality Disorder Interview-IV
    • Standardized Assessment of Personality – Abbreviated Scale
    • MMPI-3
  • Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders

 
Evidence-Based Treatments: CBT, DBT, Schema Therapy and More
Discover how to effectively work with personality disorders in a clinical setting using a range of evidence-based therapies including DBT, CBT and Schema Therapy so you can help clients build healthier coping strategies and problem-solving skills, regulate their emotions and improve their interpersonal relationships. You’ll also learn how to use MI, EMDR, and other modalities to enhance treatment. Plus you’ll leave this section understanding the role of medications in managing PD symptoms ensuring a holistic, effective approach to care.
 
  • Working with PDs in a clinical setting
  • Using CBT for healthier coping strategies and problem-solving skills
  • DBT tools to regulate emotions and improve interpersonal relationships
  • Schema Therapy: challenging maladaptive patterns and core beliefs
  • MI, EMDR and other modalities
  • Medications and personality disorders
  • Integrating treatment approaches for each cluster
  • Research, risks and limitations
  • Indications and contraindications

 
Cluster A PDs: Effective Interventions for Paranoid, Schizoid & Schizotypal Clients
In this section, you’ll gain practical tools and clinical interventions for effectively treating clients with Cluster A personality disorders, including DBT skills to enhance problem-solving and assertiveness, CBT tools to help clients test their suspicions and Schema Therapy techniques to identify and shift maladaptive beliefs.
 
  • Empty chair techniques
  • DBT skills training for problem-solving and assertiveness 
  • How to help clients test their suspicions
  • Schema therapy techniques to help identify negative thoughts
  • Mindfulness as a means of coping with stressors
  • Group therapy and interpersonal skill development
  • Overcoming transference reactions
  • Being prepared for potential diversions in sessions

 
Cluster B PDs: Best Practices for Borderline, Antisocial, Narcissistic & Histrionic Clients
Master interventions for the most challenging Cluster B disorders. From setting boundaries with Narcissistic clients to building assertiveness with Borderline clients, learn techniques to handle emotional chaos and improve outcomes.
 
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder
    • Mindfulness skills to reduce reactivity
    • Managing deceptiveness in therapy
    • Exploring themes of abandonment
    • Opposite Action emotional regulation skill to manage anger
    • Clinical exercise: Anchoring to the present moment
    • Handling clients who minimize or threaten you
  • Borderline Personality Disorder
    • CBT strategies to shift from catastrophizing thoughts
    • DBT skills for problem solving and assertiveness
    • Clinical Exercise: Safety planning
    • Excessive demands, emotional blackmail and other diversions
  • Histrionic Personality Disorder
    • REBT and changing irrational beliefs
    • Strengths-based refection on relationship behaviors
    • Handling helplessness
  • Narcissistic Personality Disorder
    • How to handle belittling statements toward you
    • Reframing beliefs
    • Using Mindfulness and acceptance skills
    • Setting limits and boundaries around treatment
    • Managing client rage and insults

 
Cluster C PDs: Effective Strategies for Avoidant, Obsessive-Compulsive & Dependent Clients
Master powerful techniques from DBT and Motivational Interviewing to build trust with clients who have Avoidant Personality Disorder, break through rigid thinking for clients with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder and help clients with Dependent Personality Disorder regain control and set healthy boundaries. With practical case studies and proven tools, you’ll be equipped to handle these complex conditions with confidence.
 
  • Avoidant Personality Disorder
    • Set the stage for clients to share vulnerabilities
    • Establishing trust
    • The TIPP skill: A rapid way to reduce emotional arousal
    • Managing shame through self-compassion
    • Working with clients who say things the therapist wants to hear
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
    • Using MI to address rigidity in thinking
    • Wise Mind Accepts Intervention
    • Case study
    • When clients attempt to control sessions
  • Dependent Personality Disorder
    • How does secondary gain show up for clients
    • DBT skills to build a sense of control
    • When clients develop a dependent relationship with you

 
Avoiding Burnout and Practicing Self-Care
Protect your well-being and prevent burnout with this essential section on self-care for therapists. Learn to recognize the common signs of burnout, assess your professional quality of life, and incorporate quick, effective 5-minute self-care exercises into your routine. This section will help you maintain your energy and passion for your work, ensuring you stay balanced and effective in helping your clients.
 
  • Common signs of burnout
  • Professional Quality of Life Scale
  • 5-minute self-care exercises
Certified Personality Disorder Treatment Provider Course:
Assessment and Treatment Using DBT, CBT, and Other Proven Therapies

$1,129.96 Value
Just $299.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 21.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Your Expert Trainers:
Katelyn Baxter-Musser

Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, C-PD, is an accomplished therapist who specializes in working with personality disorders, trauma, PTSD, abuse, depression, anxiety, grief and relationship issues. Her popular trainings have helped tens of thousands of therapists improve their practices and confidently navigate treatment with even their most challenging clients.

Katelyn is a Certified Personality Disorder Treatment Provider (C-PD) and Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT) through Evergreen Certifications. Extensively trained in mindfulness techniques, she seamlessly integrates these practices into her work with adults and adolescents presenting with a variety of concerns. With a focus on cultivating self-awareness, emotional regulation and personal growth, Ms. Baxter-Musser empowers her clients to develop healthier coping strategies, process traumas, and transform destructive emotions. Ms. Baxter-Musser is also trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is an EMDRIA-approved consultant. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and the National Center for Crisis Management. She previously sat on the EMDRIA Standards and Training Committee and was the co-regional coordinator for the EMDRIA Southern Maine Regional Network.

Katelyn is the author of The DBT Workbook for Narcissistic Abuse and Gaslighting: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Stay Emotionally Centered, Overcome Self-Doubt, and Reclaim Your Self-Worth (New Harbinger, 2024).

Click here for information about Katelyn Baxter-Musser

Janina Fisher

Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.

She is the past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.

She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

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Wendy Behary

Wendy Behary, LCSW is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She has been treating clients, training professionals and supervising psychotherapists for more than 20 years. Wendy was on the faculty of the Cognitive Therapy Center and Schema Therapy Institute of New York (until the Institutes merged in 2012), where she trained and worked with Dr. Jeffrey Young since 1989.

She is a founding fellow and consulting supervisor for The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Aaron T. Beck’s Institute). Wendy served as the President of the Executive Board of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) from 2010-2014 and served as the Training and Certification Coordinator for the ISST Executive Board from 2008-2010. She is currently the chair of the Schema Therapy Development Programs Sub-Committee for the ISST.

She has co-authored several chapters and articles on Schema Therapy and Cognitive Therapy and is the author of an internationally bestselling book, Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed, translated into 15 languages. Wendy has a specialty in treating narcissists and the people who live with and deal with them. As an author and an expert on the subject of narcissism, she is a contributing chapter author of several chapters on schema therapy for narcissism for professional readers. She lectures both nationally and internationally to professional and general audiences on schema therapy, narcissism, interpersonal relationships, anger, and dealing with difficult people.

Click here for information about Wendy T. Behary
Certified Personality Disorder Treatment Provider Course:
Assessment and Treatment Using DBT, CBT, and Other Proven Therapies

$1,129.96 Value
Just $299.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
GET 3 FREE BONUSES WHEN YOU REGISTER NOW
(valued at $669.97)
 
Borderline Personality Disorder and Traumatic Attachment: Trauma-Informed BPD Treatment Techniques for Dysregulated Emotional and Autonomic States
Borderline Personality Disorder and Traumatic Attachment: Trauma-Informed BPD Treatment Techniques for Dysregulated Emotional and Autonomic States
Janina Fisher, PhD
 

Join trauma treatment icon Dr. Janina Fisher as she transforms your treatment approach to BPD with a trauma perspective that will open up new ways of working with clients by helping you understand their challenging behaviors as consequences of being traumatized and fragmented.

Key takeaways:
  • Strengthen alliances with clients with BPD and navigate their fears of closeness and distance
  • Understand how fragmentation or “splitting” creates internal conflicts and fuels crisis
  • Help BPD clients resolve internal struggles with easily implemented body-centered and parts-centered interventions

Hiding in Plain Sight
Hiding in Plain Sight... Disarming the Covert Narcissist
Wendy Behary, MSW, LCSW
 
Covert narcissists may appear insecure and self-effacing. If overlooked, therapeutic progress can be very slow or may even stall altogether as the client remains stuck in a victim mentality. 
 

Join Wendy Behary, MSW, LCSW, author of the international bestselling book, Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed, as she teaches you skills to assess and address issues of subjugation and self-sacrifice and facilitate a process for healing the underlying insecurities of the covert narcissist.


C-PD Certification
In just three easy steps, you can become a Certified Personality Disorder Treatment Provider starting today through Evergreen Certifications:
 
  • Step 1: Watch this online course.
  • Step 2: Complete the CE test(s) and instantly print your certificate(s) of completion.
  • Step 3: Submit the Certification Questionnaire included in this training, and your application is complete.*
 
That's it! No hidden fees. No catch. Just certification made EASY.
*Professional and clinical standards apply. Learn more at www.evergreencertifications.com/cpd
The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice
 
Watch your email for your order confirmation, and get instant access to the video training.
 
Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the PESI Mobile app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices.
 
Instantly collaborate with other professionals through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on working with clients with personality disorders.
 
Complete the easy-to-follow steps to get certified when you finish the training, post-tests and evaluations.
Certified Personality Disorder Treatment Provider Course:
Assessment and Treatment Using DBT, CBT, and Other Proven Therapies

$1,129.96 Value
Just $299.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 21.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
 
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