2 Day Intensive: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

Presented by Eboni Webb, Psy.D., HSP

Monday, May 27, 2019 – Tuesday, May 28, 2019  |  Oakville, on

Date & Location

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is one of the most empirically-supported therapies available to address many clinical disorders, even beyond Borderline Personality Disorder. Some of the key symptoms that DBT skills addresses includes confusion about the self, interpersonal chaos, mood lability, and impulsive behaviours. Studies have demonstrated that participation in skills groups for a year, which allows for two rounds of the skills series, increases client’s use of skills and decrease in dysfunctional coping behaviours and improved self-awareness.  Teaching the DBT skills to easily dysregulated clients allows them to experience self-confidence and competence to mange their lives more effectively and develop sustaining relationships in many areas of life (e.g. marriage, work, school, etc.)

The skills modules of DBT provide a wonderful introduction into the comprehensive world of DBT treatment. Learning and teaching DBT skills in either an individual or group format will equip your clients to build a solid foundation for a meaningful life.  This course will provide you with the philosophy and format to teach all four standard DBT modules as well as two extra supplemental modules that can deepen you and your client’s respective skills toolkits.

• Validation is a primary intervention to:
  • Reduce acute emotionality
  • Provide gentle exposure to emotions
  • Provide a corrective validating environment (and new learning)
  • Create a bridge to learning self-validation
  • Open the client up to change interventions
• Mindfulness (non-judgment and acceptance) is taught to:
  • Reduce amplifying emotions
  • Reduce escape and avoidance of emotions
  • Create qualitatively different and effective experience of emotions
• Distress Tolerance is taught to:
  • Provide healthy ways of coping with emotions when needed
• Emotion regulation is taught to:
  • Understand how emotion happen
  • Reduce vulnerability to intense emotions
  • Increase opportunities for positive emotions
  • Assist in stepping out of ineffective mood-congruent behaviors

Who Should Attend

Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, School Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.

Agenda

Neurobiological Building Blocks

• Why DBT skills?
• Trauma and Development
• The benefit of top-down and bottom-up process learning

Creating the Learning Container

• Importance of skills as a form of self-advocacy and consultation
• Setting up a group
• Establishing safety
• Making the environment conducive for learning

The Foundational Skills: Mindfulness & Dialectics

• Dialectical skills framework
• States of Mind
• WHAT skills
• HOW skills

Naming to Tame: Emotion Regulation

• How emotions work in the body
• 10 Universal emotions
• Emotion action decision tree
• Opposite action
• Caring for the body
• Resourcing the body with positive experiences and building mastery

Thriving in a Crisis: Distress Tolerance & Self-Compassion

• Grounding: Self-Soothe
• Skillful Distractions: ACCEPTS
• Crisis Integration: IMPROVE
• Pros and Cons
• Radical Acceptance
• Letting go of toxic shame in a crisis: Self-Compassion

Connection in Community: Interpersonal Effectiveness

• Wired for connection
• FAST skills
• GIVE skills
• Validation (Self & Others)
• Prioritizing Self and Others
• DEARMAN

Learning Objectives

• Learn each standard DBT skills module and two supplemental modules.
• Learn creative and innovative techniques to keep client’s engaged in today’s technology-centered world.
• Explore the different modes of skills groups to set up the most effective program for your practice.
• Set up skills group treatment expectations and behavioural contracts.

Your Presenter

Eboni Webb, Psy.D., HSP

Eboni Webb, PsyD, HSP, earned her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Minnesota School of  Professional Psychology (MSPP). She began her clinical work as assistant clinical director and program director at Mental Health Systems, PC (MHS), one of the largest providers of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in the United States. At MHS, Dr. Webb developed two specialized DBT treatment programs for clients with developmental disabilities and borderline-intellectual functioning. She is comprehensively certified in DBT (PESI/Evergreen Institute and Michael Maslar of Northwestern University), MBSR, and is an advanced certified practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

Dr. Webb is a highly rated international trainer in DBT and is a certified trainer of DBT through the Evergreen Certification Institute and PESI. Dr. Webb trains clinicians for continuing education through various companies that include PESI, Jack Hirose and Associates, and Lane Pederson and Associates.

In 2010 Dr. Webb opened the private practice Kairos in Middle Tennessee. Kairos, now The Village of Kairos, offers diverse DBT specializations including DBT for trauma-based disorders and co-occurring disorders. The Village of Kairos has expanded therapy programs, better known as Restorative Services, to include individual and group therapy sessions for adolescents, parents, families, and adults including pre-and post-adoption services and in-the-moment coaching for clients. The vision of The Village of Kairos is to help clients build a life worth living alongside a village of practitioners with lives worth sharing. Dr. Webb adamantly believes that it takes a village to restore a single life.

Testimonials

“Dr. Webb was an excellent presenter – very engaging, clear and informative in the information she shared. I enjoyed and appreciated the personal examples and client scenarios she applied to the DBT concepts. Great sense of humour as well!”
– Calgary, AB | November 22, 2019

“Honestly one of the best workshops I’ve ever attended. Dr. Webb is engaging, knowledgeable and communicates in a clear and entertaining way. This has changed how I conceptualize some of my clients and I look forward to incorporating these skills into my practice. I also forward to reading some of the resources to supplement my understanding. I would highly recommend this workshop to colleagues.”
– Saskatoon, SK | November 18 – 19, 2019

“Excellent material and best presentation I’ve attended in a long time. Will use in my practice daily!”
– Saskatoon, SK | November 18 – 19, 2019

“Excellent speaker and presentation style. Lots of clinically useful tools and tips. Provided relevant and memorable examples.”
– Oakville, ON | May 27 – 28, 2019

“Dr. Webb was excellent. She was knowledgeable and engaging. I thoroughly enjoyed her use of humour.”
– Oakville, ON | May 27 – 28, 2019

“Lovely presenter with relevant and applicable info. Appreciated her examples and balance of theory/ knowledge and application.”
– Calgary, AB | May 9, 2019

“Eboni is a dynamic + knowledgeable presenter. She was able to maintain our interest through the use of information and personal stories. I learned a lot and I am intrigued to learn more.”
– Langley, BC | November 20-22, 2017

“Dr. Webb is amazing. Great examples and excellent presenter.”
– Edmonton, AB | April 3-5, 2017

“Dr. Eboni Webb is fantastic! I would love to be more like her not only with patients but also as a mom! Thank you.”
– Corrie Sondeli | Winnipeg, MB | June 1-3, 2016

“Wonderful! Today was advanced, comprehensive, motivating. Knowledge and learning applicable across spectrum of work.”
– Winnipeg, MB | June 1-3, 2016

“Quite an informative session. Dr. Webb’s anecdotes were quite shocking, it takes an individual with real passion for this type of clientele who’d make challenging and meaningful outcomes I the individual’s lives.”
– Vancouver, BC | May 25-27, 2016

“Eboni Webb’s many examples-helpful and demonstrate her points.”
– Vancouver, BC | May 25-27, 2016

 

 

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