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Course curriculum

    1. Welcome!

    2. Handouts for our program

    3. Zoom Link: DBT with Couples

    4. Course Evaluation

    5. Thanks for joining us!

About this course

  • $40.00
  • 5 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

Modality

Virtual via Zoom: Live Interactive Session with Activities & Discussion

NOTE: This is a live, interactive, training presented through Zoom as an online Webinar. . Zoom recommends having a broadband wired/wireless connection, speakers, and a microphone to effectively participate via this platform. (requirements listed on zoom’s website here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-Zoom-system-requirements-Windows-macOS-Linux).

Program Summary:

Course Description: This is a skill-focused workshop for mental-health clinicians that translates DBT’s acceptance-and-change framework into practical interventions for couples. This course will include concrete frameworks, strategies, identify barriers, and teach skills for using DBT with couples. Using case studies, we will discuss dynamics that emerge in couple’s counseling, as well as strategies and skills to address them. Some knowledge of DBT will be helpful, as this training will not teach basic DBT skills, but rather discuss how they are applicable and modulated to couples.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will be able to understand how to adapt the Dialectical Behavior Therapy approach to the framework, strategies, and skills for couple’s therapy.

  • Participants will be able to recognize the importance of maintaining balance and holding dialectics in a couple’s therapy session and at least 1 specific strategy to do so.

  • Participants will be able to recall how to reduce negative emotional arousal within the dyad with at least one specific skill to do so.

Audience & Skill Level

Intermediate

This session is designed to build upon understanding/experience mental health clinicians (Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and related professions) already have in this area. It is recommended that participants have previous experience and/or training in this area in order to benefit.

Course Outline & Agenda

1:00-1:15 Review DBT Frameworks

1:15-1:40 Common Couples Dynamics

1:40-2:10 DBT Strategies to address Couples

2:10-2:40 DBT Skills to teach clients

2:40-3:00 Common barriers and troubleshooting

To receive course credit, participants must complete the following:

  • Attend the Entire Program

  • Complete the Course Evaluation

  • Certificates will be available through the course webpage on Thinkific once all requirements are met.

Instructor

Ayla Peret

LCSW (TX)

Ayla Peret is a Licensed Clinical Social Work Supervisor, and has been with Austin DBT Associates since 2020, where she also teaches the "How to Teach DBT Skills" class for other clinicians. She has spent the last 10 years focused on honing her DBT skills in an IOP and outpatient setting. Her main area of expertise is in relationships- with self or others. Her caseload is filled with high-conflict couples, parent coaching, family therapy, and individuals. The group dynamics often consist of at least one person with a personality disorder and the family that loves them. Fun fact: In Ayla's quest for adventure in life, she speaks 3 languages poorly and has been attacked by wild primates on 2 continents... they may have been offended by her accent.

Program Approvals

Ohio CSWMFT Approval 

This training is approved for counselor, social work, and marriage and family therapy continuing education. In addition, it is approved by the Ohio Chemical Dependency Board for chemical dependency continuing education. Check CE Broker for detailed breakdown of CE types (provider number 50-24074). 


ASWB ACE Approval 

Mindfully (ACEP provider #1862), is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 6/27/2024 – 6/27/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits. 


NBCC ACEP Approval

Mindfully Academy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7322. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Mindfully Academy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

For more information

Individuals with comments/questions/concerns can contact Mindfully Academy via the information provided below:

[email protected] 

513-939-0300

Charles Potter (Program Coordinator) [email protected] 


  • Grievance policy: If you are dissatisfied with your experience, please feel free to share this with us via email: [email protected] or via telephone: 513-939-0300, or via your program evaluation.  All complaints will receive a response within seven business days outlining actions taken and proposed responses which may include issuing a refund, credits for future trainings, updating course content or taking appropriate action with presenters, among others. 
  • Request for Accommodations: Should any accommodations enhance your program experience, please contact us via email: [email protected] or via telephone: 513-939-0300, to explore what options you may have. 

References

Linehan, M. M. (2025). DBT skills training handouts and worksheets (Revised ed.). Guilford Press.


Fruzzetti, A. E., & Payne, A. J. (2021). Individual and Relationship Outcomes of a Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Based Intervention for Couples. Journal of Family Psychotherapy.


Hoffman, P. D., et al. (2022). Family Connections: A 12-week Community-Based Program for Family Members of Individuals with BPD—Recent Findings and Digital Adaptations. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation.


Gottman, J. S., & Gottman, J. M. (2021). The Science of Couples Therapy: Theoretical Foundations and the Gottman Method. In M. Barkham (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Psychological Therapy.