Marsha Linehan teaches

DBT Skills

Learn DBT Skills From the Founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

About the course

Start date
Starts 10 June 2025
Time
15hrs | 6 weeks
Who this course is for
For Mental Health Professionals, Health Professionals & Coaches
Accreditation
15 CE / CME Credits

Learn DBT skills directly from Dr. Marsha Linehan, the founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Her teaching offers a rare and trusted perspective on how these life-changing skills were originally developed - and how to use them with purpose in your clinical work.

This training gives you a clear, practical foundation in the DBT skills that help clients build lives they experience as worth living. It covers the four core DBT skills modules—Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Distress Tolerance—giving you a strong foundation for real-world practice.

You don’t need to be a DBT therapist to use DBT skills. These skills can be used in a wide range of settings - and taught in ways that suit your clinical style and your clients’ needs, making them practical tools for everyday therapy.

Why Learn DBT Skills?

DBT skills were created to directly address the problems many clients struggle with most—emotional overwhelm, impulsive behavior, interpersonal conflict, and feeling stuck in suffering. These aren’t just therapeutic techniques—they’re life skills.

DBT Skills
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DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition
DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets 2nd Edition
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Learn From Leading Experts in DBT

This course is led by Dr. Marsha Linehan, the creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Her direct teaching offers rare insight into how DBT skills were developed and how to apply them.

You’ll also learn from internationally recognized DBT experts:

  • Alec Miller, DBT trainer and co-developer of DBT for adolescents and the DBT Skills in Schools program

  • Elizabeth Dexter-Mazza, DBT expert and co-author of DBT Skills in Schools

Together, with contributions from Jill Rathus, co-developer of DBT for adolescents, and Melanie Harned, developer of DBT for PTSD, they offer clinical wisdom and practical guidance from years of research, training, and real-world implementation. See more about your course experts here.

A Course Designed For Real Practice

This training covers the four core DBT skills modules - Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Distress Tolerance. You’ll learn how each skill works, when to use it, and how to teach it in a way that’s engaging, focused, and clinically useful.

You’ll leave with:

  • A practical understanding of how to teach DBT skills in both individual and group settings

  • Strategies for weaving DBT skills into your current therapeutic approach—regardless of modality

  • Confidence to introduce skills flexibly or in full, depending on your client’s needs and support

  • Tools to support clients in developing greater stability, connection, and self-direction

Your Learning Experience Includes

  • Beautifully produced video lessons from Marsha Linehan and other DBT experts to guide your learning step by step

  • Therapy demonstrations showing how to teach and apply DBT skills in both individual and group sessions

  • Downloadable handouts and teaching tools to support your work with clients

  • An interactive forum to ask questions, share insights, and connect with expert trainers and peers

You don’t need to be DBT-certified to benefit from this training. The course is designed to be accessible, flexible, and immediately useful—regardless of your background or therapeutic orientation.

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