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Discover a powerful treatment framework to help your high conflict, self-destructive, and chaotic clients find lasting healing.

 

If working with severely distressed clients leaves you feeling you feel overwhelmed, frustrated, or exhausted, you’re not alone.

Even seasoned clinicians often struggle with clients who suffer from intense trauma symptoms, personality disorders, and self-harming tendencies.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Imagine confidently navigating the complex needs of high-conflict, self-destructive, and chaotic clients, and guiding them towards emotional stability and healing.

With Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), you can ensure every client receives the compassionate and effective care they deserve.

Join DBT expert John Butters for this immersive online course and discover a straightforward and validated framework for working with highly distressed clients.

Inside the course, you’ll learn the essential DBT framework, powerful interventions, and practical, use-right-away strategies to work effectively with personality disorders, extreme trauma symptoms, and more.

Not only will you finish this program with the skills to confidently apply DBT in your practice, you’ll also be eligible to earn your credentials as a Certified DBT Professional (C-DBT) at no additional cost.

Get started today and advance your practice as a certified DBT clinician!

Certified Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Professional (C-DBT) Training:
Adapting Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Techniques for Clinical Use

$1,155.40 Value
Just $149.95 (GST Inclusive) Today — Don’t Miss These Savings!
BONUS! Your certification application fee (a $249.99 value) AND your 28 CPD Hours
are included in today's deeply discounted registration! 
 
This is powerful stuff...
 

As a certified DBT professional, you can be the difference in your clients’ lives. Following this course, 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
  • Secure your financial standing by increasing your client load (and your expertise) with your newfound skills
  • Absorb essential DBT skills to use with challenging clients as you change the way that you conceptualize your work with clients
  • Help your clients combat loneliness, emotional dysregulation, and other challenges that are so common in this time of economic and social uncertainty
  • Gain competency in the legal and ethical requirements associated with telehealth – do you even know the regulations in your state?

And… the best part? You can start learning this material and transforming your clinical practice today.

 
Be the DBT expert in your community...
 

Discover exactly what you need to apply DBT solutions and strategies to your daily work with difficult clients – and then use them again and again, since this training material is all yours for LIFE.

But don’t just take it from us.

See what your peers have to say about this course!
 

"This is a great course. Am learning a lot. Such a great presenter." — Usha A.

"Loving this course" — Michia E.

"Thanks so much! The online course was easy to use, I could do it at my own pace, and it was very informative!" —Maret

Certified Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Professional (C-DBT) Training:
Adapting Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Techniques for Clinical Use

$1,155.40 Value
Just $149.95 (GST Inclusive) Today — Don’t Miss These Savings!
BONUS! Your certification application fee (a $249.99 value) AND your 28 CPD Hours
are included in today's deeply discounted registration!
Counseling psychologist and leading DBT practitioner John Butters will guide you step by step through three comprehensive modules, allowing you to progressively build your DBT strategy:
 
Module One
Introduction to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
  • The Biopsychosocial Model in DBT
    • Understanding biological vulnerability and invalidating environments
  • Stage 1: The DBT approach for working with extreme symptoms
    • Identifying target behaviors with DBT
  • Why clients' skills deficits are essential to effective treatment in DBT
  • The 3 key steps for working with skills deficits
    • Skill acquisition
    • Skill strengthening
    • Skill generalization
Borderline Personality Disorder
  • The clinical features of borderline personality disorder
    • BPD criteria – 9 key factors to assess for
  • Assessing and diagnosing BPD
    • A crucial question for clinicians working with adolescents
    • Early Warning Indicators of personality disorders
  • A humanizing way to reframe borderline personality disorder
Working with Suicidality
  • The DBT framework for assessing risk with suicidal clients
  • How to manage suicidal behaviors with DBT
  • Understanding suicidal ideation as a skills deficit problem
  • Screening and assessment tools for self-harming behaviours
  • Interventions and special treatment considerations for self-harming clients
 
Module Two
The 4 Essential DBT Skill Sets
  • Core Mindfulness
  • Distress Tolerance
  • Emotion Regulation
  • Interpersonal Effectiveness
    • The DBT therapist’s role: being a skills trainer
    • The role of validation in DBT therapy
    • Exploring target behaviours with chain analysis
Introducing Core Mindfulness (CM)
  • A DBT approach to states of mind: from reason and emotion to the ‘wise mind’
  • How to apply mindfulness skills in DBT
  • Key considerations for facilitating mindfulness practice with DBT
  • Group practice
Introducing Distress Tolerance (DT)
  • The DBT approach for working with intense and overwhelming emotions
  • A DBT approach for working with clients in crisis
  • Applying radical acceptance to move clients out of crisis
  • Out of session interventions and worksheets for Distress Tolerance
  • Creating a crisis survival box/plan (Traffic Light Exercise)
  • Using Distress Tolerance for working with addiction
 
Module Three
Introducing Emotion Regulation (ER)
  • The DBT Model of Emotion Group exercise (creating a model for one emotion)
  • Using the PLEASE Master skillset to reduce vulnerability to overwhelm
  • “Urge Surfing” as exposure to phobia-producing emotions
  • Introducing the opposite action skill for Emotion Regulation
Introducing Interpersonal Effectiveness (IE)
  • The 2 central pillars of Interpersonal Effectiveness
  • How to help clients determine their priorities for IE
  • The 3 priorities in Interpersonal Effectiveness and how to balance them
    • A simple but effective strategy to help clients communicate their needs in healthy and respectful ways
  • DBT interventions to effectively address and work with Therapy Interfering Behaviours, including non-attendance, hostile behaviour, and refusing to do homework
    • Working with countertransference and productive confrontation
Certified Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Professional (C-DBT) Training:
Adapting Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Techniques for Clinical Use

$1,155.40 Value
Just $149.95 (GST Inclusive) Today — Don’t Miss These Savings!
BONUS! Your certification application fee (a $249.99 value) AND your 28 CPD Hours
are included in today's deeply discounted registration!
PLUS, when you register today, you’ll get three FREE bonuses!
 
Your first FREE Bonus item: Certification Made Simple (a $249.99 value!)
We’ll pay for your certification so you can become Certified in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (C-DBT) — FREE!
 
Your second FREE Bonus item (A $249.95 Value!)
Bonus Seminar with John Butters:
Mentalising Based Treatment

When mentalising is happening well, we relate to ourselves and others flexibly and creatively. Human behaviours appear predictable, and we can make meaning in our lives.

In this section, you’ll discover interventions that aim to strengthen this ability in your clinical work, including:
 
  • Mentalising and its relevance to borderline personality disorder (BPD)
  • Characteristics and dimensions of mentalising
  • Attachment security, insecurity, and difficulties in social learning
  • Identifying types of non-mentalising in practice
  • Assessing clinical problems as “mentalising problems”
  • The MBT stance, with demonstrations
  • A mentalising hierarchy of activities
 
Your third FREE Bonus item (A $129.95 Value!)
Bonus Skills Instruction
Recorded Skills and Consultation Session

Watch John answer questions with real clinicians and discuss the secrets to applying DBT in practice.
Certified Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Professional (C-DBT) Training:
Adapting Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Techniques for Clinical Use

$1,155.40 Value
Just $149.95 (GST Inclusive) Today — Don’t Miss These Savings!
BONUS! Your certification application fee (a $249.99 value) AND your 28 CPD Hours
are included in today's deeply discounted registration! 
Certification Made Simple
 

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

Step 1: Watch the online course.
Step 2: Complete the CPD test and instantly print your certificate 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 standards apply. Learn more at au.evergreencertifications.com/cdbtau

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.
Are you ready to step into the life awaiting you as a Certified in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (C-DBT) Professional?
 

Get Certified and Go Further...
Become Certified in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (C-DBT) through Evergreen Certifications and show your employer, clients, potential clients and fellow professionals your commitment to honing your skills and keeping current on the latest best-practices within your profession.

Professional Reputation and Credibility
Distinguish yourself from your peers and increase your opportunities for career advancement, earning potential, and client growth. Certification is a personal accomplishment and unbiased barometer of your skills.

Client Trust
Provide assurance to consumer and clients when you display your certification. When you complete your certification, they can be confident you are providing them with the best tools and strategies for improving clinical outcomes.

 

Certified Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Professional (C-DBT) Training:
Adapting Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Techniques for Clinical Use

$1,155.40 Value
Just $149.95 (GST Inclusive) Today — Don’t Miss These Savings!
BONUS! Your certification application fee (a $249.99 value) AND your 28 CPD Hours
are included in today's deeply discounted registration!

Here's how this certification course works:
 
Step One: John Butters combines his knowledge and experience to guide you step-by-step through 3 comprehensive modules of in-depth DBT training. Just watch your email for your order confirmation, and get instant access to all course materials, including the bonus materials — all designed to help you effectively apply Dialectical Behaviour Therapy with your specific client population in a flexible and fluid way. Simply Click here for course objectives and outline.
 
Step Two: Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience — anywhere and anytime! 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.
 
Step Three: Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on these DBT materials, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences, and to build your professional network.
 
Step Four: Complete your online CPD tests and earn up to 28 CPD hours!  
 
Step Five: Become Certified in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (C-DBT)! This course meets the educational requirements to become Certified in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (C-DBT) through Evergreen Certifications. Please visit Evergreen Certifications website for more information on full certification requirements and the certification process.
Certified Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Professional (C-DBT) Training:
Adapting Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Techniques for Clinical Use

$1,155.40 Value
Just $149.95 (GST Inclusive) Today — Don’t Miss These Savings!
BONUS! Your certification application fee (a $249.99 value) AND your 28 CPD Hours
are included in today's deeply discounted registration! 
Meet the Course Experts
John Butters


John Butters BPsych PGDip Psych MPsych MRes Adv Dip Psychotherapy is a Counselling Psychologist with specialist endorsement through AHPRA.


He has worked as a psychologist since 1988, in both psychiatric and community health settings where he has coordinated DBT outpatient programs, provided individual psychotherapy, and clinical supervision.

 

Certified Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Professional (C-DBT) Training:
Adapting Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Techniques for Clinical Use

$1,155.40 Value
Just $149.95 (GST Inclusive) Today — Don’t Miss These Savings!
BONUS! Your certification application fee (a $249.99 value) AND your 28 CPD Hours
are included in today's deeply discounted registration! 

 

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