An Online Course for Clinical Professionals
DBT Made Simple by Sheri Van Dijk
Foundational Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your
Clients Manage Emotion Dysregulation and Cultivate Lasting
Well-Being
Help your clients balance out-of-control emotions, embrace change, and build a vital life
Psychotherapist, DBT expert, and trainer Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, will be your guide in this empowering course.
Learn the foundations of DBT and get extensive instruction in DBT skills and strategies—ideal for beginners and experienced DBT therapists alike.
Join now to gain a powerful new toolkit you can use to help clients break free from emotion dysregulation and embrace positive change.
This practical and powerful course will show you how to:
- Integrate DBT into any practice
- Apply DBT to a broad range of diagnoses and problems
- Help clients regulate their emotions and embrace profound change
- Validate your clients’ experience, helping them feel heard and understood
- Build and maintain a strong therapeutic alliance
12 CEs Available for:
- Psychologists
- Social workers
- Substance abuse counselors
- National counselors
- Nurses
- Physicians
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Escaping the Emotion Dysregulation Cycle
When clients return week after week with a new crisis to address, therapists are left with little or no time to teach skills that will result in meaningful long-term change.
And when they do try to teach the client more adaptive skills, the unfortunate result is often a client threatening to engage in self-harm or drop out, a rift in the therapeutic relationship that needs to be repaired, and a lack of progress.
But why do therapists get caught in this frustrating struggle with some clients and not others, even when using some of the best evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions?
The problem is that for clients struggling with emotion dysregulation, which plays a role in most mental health problems, the strong focus on change typical of traditional (CBT) and other approaches is invalidating.
A push to change when the client is not ready is taken to mean something is wrong with them and makes them feel unheard, often causing them to become irritable, lash out, or shut down.
So how can therapists effectively navigate clients’ distress and help them escape the vicious cycle of emotion dysregulation?
Orienting Clients Toward Change
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) was developed to address these roadblocks by validating a client’s experience and helping them balance the need for acceptance with the need for change.
When you can help clients feel heard and understood, let go of the struggle with their circumstances, and regulate their emotions, you can facilitate the kind of transformation they never thought possible.
DBT provides an extensive array of skills, strategies, and techniques to help your clients quickly break the grip of emotion dysregulation and open up to meaningful change in their lives.
DBT: Adopting a Flexible Approach
Some common misconceptions about DBT include the notion that it must be applied in a full DBT program and that it is only for borderline personality disorder (BPD).
The truth is that DBT is a highly flexible and proven-effective approach that can be applied in a variety of settings and situations:
- DBT can be integrated into any other therapeutic orientation
- DBT is effective in private practice and individual therapy
- DBT can be used to treat a wide range of diagnoses and problems of daily living
- DBT can help clients quickly regulate emotions and open up to positive change
Emotion dysregulation plays a role in a broad range of mental health diagnoses and problems, making DBT effective for virtually any client population you’re working with.
If your clients are getting stuck in the vicious cycle of emotion dysregulation, add DBT to your approach and gain a wealth of powerful new tools to help them regulate their emotions, make lasting change, and engage in a fulfilling life.
Introducing...
DBT Made Simple by Sheri Van Dijk
In our new online course, DBT Made Simple by Sheri Van Dijk, you’ll learn powerful dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills and strategies and how to teach them to your clients.
If you’re addressing crisis after crisis with your clients and they struggle to engage in meaningful change due to anger, anxiety, sadness, and other emotion dysregulation, then this course is for you.
When you can validate your clients’ experience and help them feel heard and understood, you’ll be empowered to get unstuck, build a strong therapeutic alliance, and enhance the effectiveness of the evidence-based strategies you already use.
You’ll come away with a solid understanding of DBT and an extensive toolkit you can use immediately to help clients regulate their emotions, balance acceptance and change, and build the lives they long for.
Over 6 Empowering Modules, You’ll Learn:
- The Foundations of the DBT Model and Its Underlying Theories
Get a concise overview of biosocial theory, behavior theory, and dialectics—everything you need to teach DBT skills effectively. - Effective Communication Styles, Validation Techniques, and Dialectical Strategies
Build a strong therapeutic alliance and promote profound change in your clients. - Core Mindfulness Skills
Help clients focus on the present moment, get to know themselves, improve memory and concentration, promote relaxation, and increase awareness of pleasant experiences. - Distress Tolerance Skills
Help clients weather a crisis without making it worse and accept reality as it is rather than fighting it to reduce painful emotions and suffering. - Emotion Regulation Skills
Help clients become more aware of their emotions, understand why they need them, and manage them more effectively. - Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
Help clients improve communication, increase assertiveness, get their needs met, set limits, improve self-respect, and maintain healthy relationships.
Use DBT to treat any client population:
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Anxiety
- PTSD
- OCD
- Complex trauma
- Dissociative disorders
- Eating disorders
- Borderline personality disorder
- Many more
In addition, DBT is effective for many mental health challenges that don’t meet DSM criteria, such as:
- Anger management
- Low self-esteem
- Shame
- Relationship difficulties
As an international speaker who has trained thousands of helping professionals, Van Dijk teaches with a clear, down-to-earth style that makes it easy to grasp the information and put it into action.
Case studies and exercises throughout the course demonstrate key concepts and explain how to implement them with your clients.
Downloadable lesson summaries and client worksheets ensure you’re ready to use your newfound skills the moment you finish the course.
Add DBT to your practice and help clients get off the roller-coaster of dysregulated emotions and live freer, richer lives.
DBT provides a powerful therapeutic toolkit to help you:
- De-escalate and stabilize clients’ emotions—even in complex cases
- Help clients weather a crisis without making it worse
- Validate your clients’ experience, helping them feel heard and understood
- Help clients balance acceptance and change
- Build and maintain a strong therapeutic alliance
Enroll in
DBT Made Simple by Sheri Van Dijk
What’s included in the course:
- Engaging video lessons for an immersive learning experience (over 10 hours and 65 video lessons in all)
- Exercises and client worksheets (downloadable)
- Easy-to-use course interface
- Lifetime access
- Satisfaction guarantee
- Bonus: Values Toolkit (downloadable)
- 12 CEs available (review CE details)
To join, select one of the following options:
A one-time payment of
$449 USD
OR
4 monthly payments of
$124 USD
A Personal Note from Sheri Van Dijk
I was introduced to DBT at the beginning of my career, and it immediately resonated with me.
It wasn’t long before I realized I wanted to share DBT skills with not only my clients, but all the clinicians out there who get stuck while using traditional CBT and other approaches with their clients.
But why do they get stuck?
As DBT developer Marsha Linehan discovered, the unrelenting focus on change in traditional CBT tends to be invalidating and can harm the therapeutic relationship for clients struggling with emotion dysregulation.
By validating a client’s experience and addressing emotion dysregulation, DBT prevents these roadblocks and helps the client open up to the change processes that can make a profound and lasting difference in their lives.
And because emotion dysregulation plays a role in most DSM disorders, including bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, OCD, PTSD, and more, as well as problems of living such as anger, shame, low self-esteem, and relationship issues, DBT is useful and effective for a broad range of disorders and problems beyond just BPD.
In addition, you can add DBT to your practice no matter your current therapeutic approach—it will simply enhance the work you're already doing.
In my new course, I provide just enough theory to give you a firm foundation and focus primarily on explaining DBT skills and strategies and how to teach them to clients, so you'll finish with practical skills you can put into action right away.
Join me and learn how to use DBT to help your clients balance their emotions, open up to meaningful change, and build vital, fulfilling lives.
Curriculum
DBT Made Simple by Sheri Van Dijk includes downloadable lesson summaries and client worksheets for use with clients.
Module 1: The Foundations of DBT
- Emotion Dysregulation
- What Is DBT?
- The Standard DBT Model
- Effectiveness of DBT
- Comparing DBT, CBT, and ACT
- Stages of Treatment
- Behavior Tracking
- Structuring Therapy Sessions
- Modifying DBT
- Emotional Vulnerability
- Pervasively Invalidating Environments
- Applying the Biosocial Theory of BPD
- Introducing Dialectics
- Dialectics in Therapy
Module 2: Dialectical Strategies
- Reciprocal Communication
- Validation
- Levels of Validation
- Case History: Marianne
- Exercise Debrief: Marianne
- Irreverent Communication
- Other Dialectical Strategies
- Behavior Theory
- Behavioral Analysis
- Solution Analysis
Module 3: DBT Mindfulness Skills
- How to Practice Mindfulness
- Types of Mindfulness
- Mindfulness and Emotion Dysregulation
- States of Mind
- About the States of Mind Exercise
- Accessing Wise Mind
- STRONGR
- “What” Skills: Observe, Describe, Participate
- “How” Skills: Nonjudgmentally, One-mindfully, Effectively
Module 4: Distress Tolerance
- About Crisis Survival Skills
- F-TIPP Skills
- Distracting Skills
- Self-Soothing Skills
- IMPROVE the Moment Skills
- Pros and Cons
- Urge Management
- Radical Acceptance
- Steps to Radical Acceptance
- Barriers to Radical Acceptance
- Willingness and Willfulness
Module 5: Emotion Regulation
- Awareness of Emotions
- The Function of Emotions
- Mindfulness of Current Emotion
- Reducing Vulnerability to Emotions
- Managing Extreme Emotions
- Opposite Action
- Cope Ahead
Module 6: Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Assertiveness Skills
- Objective Effectiveness
- Relationship Effectiveness
- Self-Respect Effectiveness
- Practicing Skills
- Priorities and Demands
- Developing Relationships
- Ending Relationships
- Behavioral Principles
- Dealing with Barriers
- Dialectics
Bonus:
DBT Values Toolkit
In the course, Van Dijk discusses identifying and acting from values as part of a strategy to reduce vulnerability to emotions. This downloadable values toolkit includes a “What Are Your Values?” exercise and a list of values you can give to clients to help them identify or build their values.
CEs
Upon completion of the core course content plus evaluations and posttest as required, participants will be eligible for 12 CE hours approved for the following professionals:
- Psychologists
- Social workers
- Substance abuse counselors
- National counselors
- Nurses
- Physicians
Before registering, please review complete CE information.
Who Should Join This Course?
This course is a great fit if you want to:
- Integrate DBT into your practice and improve outcomes
- Learn DBT skills and strategies you can use right away
- Apply DBT for a wide range of diagnoses and problems of daily living
- Use DBT skills to balance your own emotions, bring more of yourself to the therapeutic relationship, and reduce burnout
- Help clients regulate their emotions and open up to profound change
Enroll in
DBT Made Simple by Sheri Van Dijk
What’s included in the course:
- Engaging video lessons for an immersive learning experience (over 10 hours and 65 video lessons in all)
- Exercises and client worksheets (downloadable)
- Easy-to-use course interface
- Lifetime access
- Satisfaction guarantee
- Bonus: Values Toolkit (downloadable)
- 12 CEs available (review CE details)
To join, select one of the following options:
A one-time payment of
$449 USD
OR
4 monthly payments of
$124 USD
Meet Your Guide, Sheri Van Dijk, MSW
Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, is a psychotherapist and renowned dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) expert and trainer. She is author of several books including Calming the Emotional Storm, Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, and The DBT Skills Workbook for Teen Self-Harm. Her books focus on using DBT skills to help people manage their emotions and cultivate lasting well-being. Sheri is extensively trained in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and is an EMDR-certified therapist and consultant in training. She is a recipient of the R.O. Jones Award from the Canadian Psychiatric Association.
Answers to Your Questions
Not at all. This course is designed for mental health professionals with little or no prior knowledge of DBT. Sheri Van Dijk breaks down DBT concepts and skills in an accessible way, making it suitable for beginners. However, even those with some DBT experience will benefit from the review of foundational theory, the extensive instruction in DBT skills and strategies and how to teach them, and how to integrate them flexibly into their existing practice.
This course is ideal whether you are:
- New to DBT and want simple yet effective strategies for addressing emotion dysregulation
- Familiar with DBT and want a practical review of the theory and extensive instruction in powerful skills-based tools
- Seeking a strong foundation for further study and eventual work in a DBT program
Join now and come away with powerful DBT skills and strategies you can teach to clients on day one
Enroll in
DBT Made Simple by Sheri Van Dijk
What’s included in the course:
- Engaging video lessons for an immersive learning experience (over 10 hours and 65 video lessons in all)
- Exercises and client worksheets (downloadable)
- Easy-to-use course interface
- Lifetime access
- Satisfaction guarantee
- Bonus: Values Toolkit (downloadable)
- 12 CEs available (review CE details)
To join, select one of the following options:
A one-time payment of
$449 USD
OR
4 monthly payments of
$124 USD