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The training you need to bring one of the most in-demand modalities into your practice TODAY!


Nearly 10,000 clinicians have already trusted PESI to provide the in-depth training they need to effectively use DBT.

Now you can join them!

Whether you have any prior experience with DBT or not...

...whether you’re interested in putting together a DBT program or simply want to add DBT into your integrative style...

...this comprehensive certification training will equip you with everything you need to become a great DBT therapist.

Under the step-by-step guidance of esteemed DBT expert, Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, you’ll receive:

  • Top strategies to reduce clients’ maladaptive behaviors, self-harm, and suicide risk
  • Accessible exercises to build mindfulness skills that stick
  • Interpersonal effectiveness tools to help clients improve self-respect and self-care
  • Reality acceptance skills to help clients tolerate distress
  • And much more!

Best of all, upon completing this live training, you’ll be eligible to become Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT) through Evergreen Certifications – and we’ll cover your application fee (a $249.99 value)!


Register today because your clients need you to know DBT!


*Professional standards apply. Click here for certification information.

DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY CERTIFICATION TRAINING

Join Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, live online to learn how to master DBT!

November 6-8, 2024 • 8:00 AM - 4:40 PM PST

$329.99

BONUS! Your certification application fee (a $249.99 value) AND your CE hours are included with today’s registration.
Click here for Credit details

Can't attend live? Order the self-study version here!

DBT is powerful.

Not only can it be used in a variety of settings, DBT can be easily adapted to meet your clients’ unique needs. AND you can start making a difference in your clients’ lives right away! Following your three days learning from DBT expert, Katelyn Baxter-Musser, you will be able to:

  • Leverage the power of DBT in a strategic way that is highly effective in treating even the most intense clinical conditions like personality disorders, suicidal ideation, substance use, and more
  • Apply essential DBT skills and tools with challenging clients
  • Utilize the DBT framework to improve the way you conceptualize your work with clients
  • Help your clients combat loneliness, emotional dysregulation, and other common challenges
  • Secure your financial standing by increasing your client load (and your expertise) with your newfound skills
  • And so much more!

What You’ll Learn in this 3-day Intensive Training


Foundations of DBT
  • Biosocial Theory
  • Characteristics of DBT
  • DBT as an evidence-based practice
  • Dialectics: the balance of acceptance and change
DBT in the Clinical Setting
  • Application of DBT in the individual and group therapy setting
  • Skills training methods
  • Validation strategies
  • Research and limitations
DBT SKILLS TRAINING


Mindfulness: Cultivate the Skills at the Core of Successful DBT Therapy
  • Acceptance vs. judgment
  • Wise mind – achieve harmony between emotion and reason
  • Accessible exercises for building mindfulness skills
    • Observation – keep clients calm, centered and aware
    • Describe – overcome assumptions
    • Participation – release judgment and fear
  • Strategies for teaching mindfully and exercises for therapy

Interpersonal Effectiveness: Skills to Build Better Relationships and Lives
  • Tools to identify strengths
  • Balancing relationships with self-respect
  • Exercises and role play guidance on how to:
    • Develop healthy assertiveness skills
    • Enhance conflict resolution skills
    • Build empathy
    • Keep problems from building up
    • Resist pressure
  • Top strategies for changing behavior
Emotion Regulation: Practical Skills for Healthier Emotions and Greater Resilience
  • Strong emotions and poor coping skills
  • How to change unwanted emotions
  • Reduce emotional vulnerability while practicing self-care
  • Opposite action skills to reduce maladaptive behavior
  • Emotion Regulation exercises
  • Self-soothing strategies that work
  • Learn the sleep hygiene protocol

Distress Tolerance: Skills to Cope with Painful Moments and Survive Crisis
  • Developing crisis survival and reality acceptance skills
  • 4 options for solving problems
  • Problem-solving case studies
  • Using pros and cons to make decisions
  • STOP skills to manage crisis situations
  • The steps to practicing radical acceptance
  • Tools to accept change
Self-Harm and Suicidal Crises: A Roadmap for Assessment and Intervention
  • Screening and assessment tools for self-harming behaviors
  • Interventions and treatment considerations for the self-harming population
  • Suicide risk as a skills deficit problem
  • Tools and techniques to assess for level of risk
  • Firearms, medications, and lethal-means restriction plans that work
  • Safety plans and crisis intervention

Adapt DBT with Different Populations
  • Children and adolescents
  • Trauma survivors
  • Substance abusers
DBT in Clinical Practice
  • Analyzing behaviors: chain analysis & missing links analysis
  • Diary cards and homework with clients
  • Identify therapy interfering behaviors
  • Develop skills to identify and manage self-harming & suicidal behaviors

DBT: The Therapist and Consultation Group
  • 3 ways to decrease therapist burnout
  • The characteristics of an effective DBT team
  • Integrating DBT into your practice


Objectives

  1. Analyze the origins of Biosocial Theory and communicate the clinical implications of the theory.
  2. Determine how DBT skills can help clients identify unhealthy interaction styles.
  3. Determine how mindfulness skills can empower clients to interpret situations in new ways and react in healthier ways.
  4. Demonstrate how clinicians can effectively teach DBT skills and encourage support and constructive feedback in a group setting.
  5. Develop ways in which clinicians can maximize client buy-in for DBT homework assignments.
  6. Determine how interpersonal skills training can be used with clients to improve relationships.
  7. Determine how DBT skills can be used to decrease the likelihood of compassion fatigue in clinicians.
  8. Demonstrate how DBT skills can be utilized to identify and overcome obstacles to changing emotions and reactive behaviors.
  9. Devise ways in which DBT can be adapted for working with children and adolescents.
  10. Appraise how DBT can be used in working with trauma survivors.
  11. Demonstrate how diary cards can be used by clients to monitor their emotions and track how they are using DBT skills to deal with challenges.
  12. Effectively utilize a chain analysis with clients to help them gain insight into how they can change problem behaviors.
  13. Determine how opposite action strategies can be used by clients to reduce self-destructive urges.
  14. Support how interpersonal effectiveness exercises can be employed in therapy to help clients keep relationship without sacrificing their self-respect.
  15. Utilize a pros and cons list that can help clients see the consequences of their actions and make better choices when they are faced with a difficult decision.
  16. Apply strategies to confront therapy interfering behavior and help clients overcome avoidance.
  17. Determine how Dialectical Behavior Therapy interventions can help clients foster radical acceptance of traumatic events and reduce feelings of shame, guilt and fear.
  18. Demonstrate how the STOP skills can help clients to manage crisis situations and prevent them from doing something impulsive they might regret later.
  19. Determine how clinicians can use the levels of validation to enhance the therapeutic alliance and teach clients to validate themselves.
  20. Employ DBT skills that can be used with clients to reduce self-harm and suicidal behaviors.
  21. Develop a client’s Wise Mind state so they can be more aware and less impulsive in their actions.
Here’s What Your Peers Have to Say About Katelyn Baxter-Musser!

DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY CERTIFICATION TRAINING

Join Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, live online to learn how to master DBT!

November 6-8, 2024 • 8:00 AM - 4:40 PM PST

$329.99

BONUS! Your certification application fee (a $249.99 value) AND your CE hours are included with today’s registration.
Click here for Credit details

Can't attend live? Order the self-study version here!
Certification Made Simple



In just three easy steps, you will become Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT) starting today:

  • Step 1: Attend the conference.
  • Step 2: Complete the CE test and instantly print your CE certificate.
  • Step 3: Submit your application to Evergreen Certifications and we’ll cover the cost of your certification fee for 2 years. ($249.99 value!)

That's it! No hidden fees. No catch. Just certification made EASY.

*Professional standards apply. Learn more by clicking here.

We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product, we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.

Meet Your DBT Expert


Katelyn Baxter-Musser
Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, is Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT) through Evergreen Institute and is EMDRIA-certified. She works in private practice where her areas of expertise include the treatment of trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship issues.

Katelyn’s DBT training is one of PESI’s most in-demand programs, attended by tens of thousands of clinicians worldwide. She incorporated DBT into her practice while working with adolescents and adults presenting with a variety of concerns. Ms. Baxter-Musser’s years of experience using DBT principles in her practice have helped her clients develop healthier coping skills, better process their past traumas, and increase their ability to identify and cope with destructive emotions.

Ms. Baxter-Musser is also an EMDRIA-approved consultant who previously sat on the EMDRIA Standards and Training Committee and was the co-regional coordinator for the EMDRIA Southern Maine Regional Network. 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.

Click here for information about Katelyn Baxter-Musser
This event is designed for:
 
  • Counselors
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Mental Health Professionals
  • Physicians
  • Nurses

DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY CERTIFICATION TRAINING

Join Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, live online to learn how to master DBT!

November 6-8, 2024 • 8:00 AM - 4:40 PM PST

$329.99

BONUS! Your certification application fee (a $249.99 value) AND your CE hours are included with today’s registration.
Click here for Credit details

Can't attend live? Order the self-study version here!
Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn from this training?

We’re glad you asked! You’ll learn evidence-based interventions and skills for you to use with clients presenting with a variety of concerns. This training will teach you the core principles and foundations of DBT, the various modes of treatment, case conceptualization, and how to immediately utilize the power of DBT in your practice.


How do I know this training is right for me?

Your clients are struggling. It’s difficult for them to accept their reality, especially without the right tools to assist in their treatment. Not only will this training provide you with the current knowledge and expertise for you to incorporate DBT tools and skills for any client, but Katelyn also incorporates an assortment of different learning styles into the training, including lectures, role-plays, and case studies, ensuring that you are learning in the most efficient way possible.


Is this really a live training? Can I ask questions?

YES! The webcast is LIVE and you’ll be able to ask the presenter your questions! Though Katelyn may not get to all of them, she will do her best to cover the most relevant and frequent questions.


If I can’t attend live, can I still get CE credits?

Yes! Simply select the “Self-Study” version. You’ll get unlimited access to the training and be able to earn CE at your own convenience.

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