DBT Mastery Pathway: Advanced Strategies for Complex Clinical Work
Enhance your DBT skills with advanced strategies, hands-on tools, and real-world clinical applications—while earning 16.25 CE credits.
An Advanced DBT Training Pathway for Clinicians
This pathway is designed for clinicians who already have a basic understanding of DBT and want to deepen their expertise. You’ll expand your toolkit with ready-to-use exercises, learn advanced strategies for engagement and treatment adherence, and see DBT applied to complex cases.
With over 16 hours of dynamic video content, you’ll gain the skills and confidence to handle challenging scenarios and achieve lasting results.
Why this “DBT Training Pathway”?
Take your DBT practice beyond the basics with training designed for real-world complexity.
This pathway gives you the tools and confidence to:
- Navigate challenging cases like PTSD, self-harm, and emotional overcontrol.
- Keep clients engaged and motivated throughout treatment.
- Integrate DBT with other evidence-based approaches like ACT or prolonged exposure therapy for tailored care.
- Apply what you learn immediately to achieve lasting results.
What will you learn?
Through this pathway, you will:
- Master hands-on techniques for mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
- Explore advanced frameworks like the Cycle of Change, Fennell’s Phase Model, and the Thinker-Feeler-Doer Triangle.
- Gain practical strategies to boost treatment adherence and address barriers like demoralization, guilt, and shame.
- Watch DBT applied to real clinical cases, seeing how theory translates into effective practice.
- Learn to integrate DBT with other approaches, tailoring interventions to meet each client’s unique needs.
DBT Advanced Training Pathway Components
Modules
DBT Training on Core Skills and Tools: Hands-On Guide
Instructor: Dr. Kirby Reutter
Improve your DBT practice with a collection of practical techniques and real-world examples.
This course helps you confidently apply core skills like mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness with clients facing borderline personality disorder, complex trauma, and other challenging presentations.
Course length: 6 hours
Mastering DBT Series: Foundations and Treatment Adherence Techniques
Instructor: Dr. Mark Carlson
Learn advanced DBT strategies to increase motivation and improve treatment adherence.
Explore the Cycle of Change, Fennell’s Phase Model, TAG™ skills, and practical adherence tools like the Pros/Cons Grid, acceptance techniques, and habit formation strategies for effective and lasting therapeutic outcomes.
Course length: 3 hours
Mastering DBT Series: The Functioning Triangle and Resiliency Strategies
Instructor: Dr. Mark Carlson
Gain a deeper understanding of clients’ inner worlds using the Thinker-Feeler-Doer Triangle.
Develop personalized action plans to address demoralization, guilt, shame, and pain management while fostering psychological, social, and spiritual connections. Learn advanced DBT techniques, including pain management approaches, dialectical methods for working with guilt and shame, and building resilience.
Course length: 2.75 hours
See DBT in action with detailed clinical cases covering teens, PTSD, and emotion overcontrol.
DBT for Teens: Addressing Self-Harm and Suicidal Behaviors
Instructor: Dr. Kristen Galloway
Follow Sarah’s story to understand how DBT helps teens manage emotional dysregulation, self-harm, and suicidal ideation through mindfulness, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Course length: 1.75 hours
Applying DBT PE in Treating PTSD
Instructor: Dr. Sarah Schmidt
Watch the preparatory phase of the DBT PE framework, highlighting how to help clients build the stability and skills needed before beginning trauma processing.
Follow Adriana’s journey as she builds stability, strengthens relationships, and develops readiness for trauma processing.
Course length: 1 hour
Bonus Course: Integrative Therapy for Emotion Efficacy: Combining ACT, DBT, and Exposure Strategies (1.25 credits)
Instructor: Dr. Aprilia West
Discover how to blend DBT, ACT, and exposure therapy to treat emotion overcontrol. Techniques include emotion surfing, WTF? analysis, and mindful coping strategies to increase psychological flexibility and reduce avoidance.
Course length: 1.25 hours
Get started right away and earn 1 CE credit
The Trauma Pack has a value of $1397. Promotional value $375
Your DBT Toolbox: A Worksheets and Handouts Library
Gain access to a diverse collection of handouts and worksheets.
Client Resources:
Exercises, metaphors, and activities to assign as therapeutic homework, reinforcing learning between sessions.
Clinician’s Toolkit:
Guides, checklists, and planners to streamline preparation and deliver high-impact DBT interventions.
Sample Video: How to Create Sustainable Change in Therapy
From our course, Mastering DBT Series: Foundations and Treatment Adherence Techniques by Mark Carlson, Psy.D., L.P.
Meet Your Instructors
Kristen Galloway, Ph.D.
Sarah Schmidt, Ph.D.
Aprilia West, Ph.D, Psy.D., MT, PCC.
Accreditation Information
Most professional boards, including those for Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Addictions Professionals, may accept APA CE credits.
Please contact your professional licensing board for further information. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
Psychotherapy Academy, #1851, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 4/7/2024 – 4/7/2027. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
Please contact your professional licensing board for further information. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
Physicians (ACCME) Credit Designation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of Medical Academy, LLC, and the Psychotherapy Academy. Medical Academy, LLC, is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are accepted by the boards responsible for regulating Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants.
Please contact your professional licensing board for further information. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
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Course Interaction & System Requirements
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• Broadband internet connection: Any medium that is internet accessible
• Media viewing requirements: None
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