Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

November 18 – December 10, 2025

November 18+19, 25+26, December 2+3, 9+10, 2025
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (ET)
Live Online via Zoom
Facilitated by: Dr. Martin Bohus, M.D., & Dr. Shelley McMain, C.Psych.

This course, offered through the Centre for MindBody Health over a four-week period, provides a comprehensive examination of DBT-PTSD based on a psychosocial model. Dysfunctional behaviors are understood as strategies to avoid or escape from trauma-associated primary emotions like powerlessness, threat, anxiety, disgust, humiliation, or sexual arousal. DBT-PTSD proposes that these emotions are corroborated by dysfunctional cognitive assumptions and dysfunctional behaviors such as self-injury, suicidal ideation, dissociation or intoxication. It further proposes that problematic secondary emotions such as shame, guilt, self-hatred, or chronic anger develop over time into problematic self-concepts which impair quality of life.

DBT-PTSD helps clients: a. Revise their fear of trauma-associated primary emotions, b. Question whether secondary emotions like guilt and shame fit the facts, and c. Radically accept the fact of trauma in their lives to establish a life worth living. The treatment program is designed to be delivered in a residential program (three-months) or in an outpatient setting (45 weeks).
This course provides comprehensive training in DBT-PTSD including a manual.

The course also fulfills the prerequisite for enrolling in the Advanced DBT for Complex PTSD course that is offered alongside this foundational training course.

AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS TRAINING, YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:
• Describe the basic psycho-social and neuro-behavioral principles of complex PTSD
• Implement the principles of DBT-PTSD within your clinical practice
• Develop an individualized trauma model
• Teach your client skills for dissociation, distress tolerance, and regulation of trauma-related emotions
• Conduct in-sensu exposure
• Help your clients create a life worth living

Target Audience
Multi-disciplinary mental health professionals interested in treating complex PTSD using evidence-based principles and procedures. Basic knowledge of DBT is recommended.

Webinar Recording
This webinar will be recorded and shared with all registrants and made available for 60 days once released.

For more information and to register, please click HERE.
Please contact us with any inquires at cmbhdbtworkshops@gmail.com