DBT Skills

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.

There are 15 CE/CME credits available for this course (see Learner Notification). Prior to registering, please visit this FAQs to review CE/CME details, course objectives, speaker/planner conflict of interest disclosure and more.