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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

With Marsha Linehan & her team of experts

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Build your range of clinical strategies & interventions

DBT Skills

DBT Skills

For Mental Health Professionals, Health Professionals & Coaches
Coming soon
15hrs | 6 weeks

Join Marsha Linehan in this interactive course as she teaches you how to effectively use DBT Skills when working with patients, including those with complex presentations. You’ll learn the clinical application of a family of four skills: Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Skills and Distress Tolerance.

Course with expert support
DBT Skills for Adolescents and Families

DBT Skills for Adolescents and Families

For Mental Health Professionals, Health Professionals & Coaches
Coming soon
12 hours | 6 weeks

Join Marsha Linehan, Alec Miller and Jill Rathus on this engaging interactive course and learn how to adapt and and practically apply DBT Skills with adolescents and their families. This course also includes an important 5th Skills module designed specifically for this population - “Walking the Middle Path.”

Course with expert support
Applied DBT Skills for Trauma

Applied DBT Skills for Trauma

For Mental Health & Health Professionals, & Coaches
Coming soon
12 hours | 12 months access

Unlock the power of DBT Skills to transform trauma treatment with Dr Melanie Harned, the world’s foremost expert in DBT and trauma, and Dr Marsha Linehan, the treatment developer. This advanced-level course deep dives into practical strategies and real-world applications, featuring extensive client demonstrations showcasing how the DBT Skills can be used to treat a range of trauma-related problems.

Self-directed course
Applied DBT Skills for Anger and Shame

Applied DBT Skills for Anger and Shame

For Health & Mental Health Professionals
Coming soon
14 hrs | 12 months access

Discover how the DBT Skills can transform the way we understand and treat the damaging impacts of anger and shame. In this advanced-level course, renowned DBT trainer Annie McCall will teach you how to implement a wide range of practical DBT Skills & strategies, including adaptations for neurodivergent clients. Learn through in-depth client demonstrations and expert teaching, showing how the DBT Skills can help to break the vicious cycle of anger and shame, and help move your clients towards their own life worth living.

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Comprehensive online training in DBT

Work in a DBT team

Offering mental health professionals and systems real flexibility and tailored training solutions to meet real world challenges in an ever changing clinical landscape. Each DBT Comprehensive program is designed to enable you to learn and master the application of DBT with patients.

DBT Intensive Programs

  • Prepares you to work with complex, multi-diagnostic patients supported by your DBT team

  • Is focused on practical ‘real world’ clinical application of DBT 

  • Allows each team to start anytime*

  • Has been designed to assist clinical DBT teams work effectively together 

  • Includes DBT expert consultation tailored for every DBT team 

*subject to approval

Your Pathway to Certification

Your journey toward certification begins with a DBT Comprehensive course. This is the foundation for building the knowledge and skills needed to deliver DBT with confidence and fidelity.

From there, the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification guides clinicians through a rigorous but supportive process to ensure they can apply DBT effectively and in line with the model as it was researched. Programs are also evaluated to confirm they have the right structure and supports in place to offer DBT with integrity. You can learn more about their certification process here.

Three learning pathways to becoming a certified DBT therapist

DBT Foundational

DBT Foundational

For Mental Health Professionals
Start anytime
12 weeks | 12 months access

This highly practical course is designed to assist new clinicians learn & apply the strategies of DBT, to seamlessly join an existing DBT Team. *Eligibility criteria applies

This program includes:

  • 30 hours of on demand content broken into sections of approx 2.5 hours per week - 12 months access 

  • Detailed therapy demonstrations which bring the DBT model therapy to life & can be revisited at any time

  • Includes a resource library & bonus “dig deeper” content in areas that interest you

Self-directed course
DBT Intensive

DBT Intensive

Clinical Teams
Start anytime
12 Months (payment plans available)

Tailored to meet the unique needs of new and existing DBT Teams, your DBT Intensive program is focused on assisting your team to work effectively while applying DBT with patients. 

This program includes: 

  • 12 months access to DBT Foundational online course + 2 x 1hr expert led team-forming consultations

  • 20+ hours of ongoing expert DBT consultation, tailored to your team's needs

  • Extra expert support packages available

*Eligibility criteria applies

DBT Training Program
DBT Intensive Plus

DBT Intensive Plus

For Mental Health Professionals
Start anytime
12 Months (payment plans available)

The DBT Intensive Plus program is designed for individual practitioners who are not yet part of a DBT Team. 

This program includes: 

  • 12 months access to the DBT Foundational online course + 6 hours of expert led consultations to ensure effective DBT team formation

  • 20+ hours of ongoing expert DBT consultation, tailored to your team's needs 

*Eligibility criteria applies

DBT Training Program
DBT Foundational for Adolescents & Families

DBT Foundational for Adolescents & Families

For Mental Health Professionals in a DBT team
Start anytime
14 weeks | 12 months access

Led by DBT for Adolescent pioneers Alec Miller and Jill Rathus, this foundational training gives you practical, in-depth instruction in the comprehensive model for adolescents and families. Through engaging demonstrations across all six treatment modalities—individual therapy, family therapy, skills training, inter-session coaching, therapist consultation team, and parent sessions—you’ll see exactly how DBT comes to life in clinical practice.

Self-directed course

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a gold standard, evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy developed by Marsha M. Linehan.

DBT is commonly used to treat suicidal behaviors, borderline personality disorder and other severe and complex mental health disorders including: emotion dysregulation, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, substance dependence, depression and anxiety-related issues.

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