Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

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

For Mental Health Professionals, Health Professionals & Coaches

Starts 25 Nov

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

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

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.

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

For Mental Health Professionals

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

Clinical Teams

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

For Mental Health Professionals

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

For Mental Health Professionals in a DBT team