If you have always wanted to learn DBT Skills and bring them back to your clients so that they could improve: Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance and Mindfulness - now is the time!!

This course teaches you everything you need to know to understand DBT Skills and integrate them into your practice using a DBT-Informed model for individual, family and group therapy. 

If you are feeling burned out and exhausted by and/or frustrated with work, if your clients are at an impasse in therapy, if you are not helping them realize treatment goals, and/or if they are stating that they "need more," DBT will help!!

This course is RICH with material - over 20 hours of video trainings that review, in detail, each DBT Skill, its benefit to the client, PLUS exactly how to explain how to integrate the skills in daily life AND how to help your clients overcome resistance to change.

It includes mock therapy sessions for your review, create DBT exercises and activities, handouts and worksheets so that you can feel and experience each DBT model for yourself - learning from the inside out!!

You’re in the right place if:

  • You are READY to add new skills to your therapist toolbox that will help you decrease burnout AND energize your practice

  • You want to add DBT-Informed Skills to your practice in-person and online

  • You want to help your clients get the most out of DBT

  • You are a New Jersey Social Worker looking for 20 CE Hours (CE Hours pending Social Workers outside of NJ through ACE)

Course curriculum

    1. Lesson 1-1 Intro to course - What is DBT

    2. Lesson 1-2 Types of DBT and History of DBT

    3. Lesson 1 Handout

    4. Lesson 1 quiz

    1. Lesson 2-1 Dialectics

    2. Lesson 2-2 Dialectics and Mindfulness

    3. Lesson 2 Mindfulness and Dialectics Handout

    4. Lesson 2 quiz

    1. Lesson 3-1 Core Mindfulness Skills

    2. Lesson 3-2 Mindful Eating

    3. Lesson 3-3 Breathing 1

    4. Lesson 3-4 Breathing 2

    5. Lesson 3-5 Breathing

    6. Lesson 3-6 Mindfulness of Thoughts and Body

    7. Lesson 3 Core Mindfulness Skills Handout

    8. Lesson 3 quiz

    1. Lesson 4-1 Three States of Mind

    2. Lesson 4-2 Wise Mind Interactive Exercise

    3. Lesson 4 States of Mind Handout

    4. Lesson 4 quiz

    1. Lesson 5-1 ODP, Teflon Mind, Check facts

    2. Lesson 5-2 ODP Interactive Activity

    3. Lesson 5 Observe Describe Participate Handout

    4. Lesson 5 quiz

    1. Lesson 6-1 Non-Judmentally

    2. Lesson 6-2 One-Mindfully & Effectively

    3. Lesson 6 How Skills Handout

    4. Lesson 6 quiz

About this course

  • $1,999.00
  • 81 lessons
  • 15 hours of video content

About the course

  • The course is online and self-paced. Watch when you can and complete each lesson at your leisure
  • Access to the course for 6 months from the date of enrollment
  • Over 20 hours of online, video lessons that cover the four modules of DBT, PLUS bonus content, handouts, worksheets, filmed mock therapy sessions using DBT
  • The course will teach you:
    • DBT Skills - all of them!
    • How to implement DBT Skills in your practice
    • How to create and maintain a successful DBT Skills Group program in your practice
  • New bonus material and course updates will be added in the future. You will have access to the course updates at not additional fee.
  • This course is excellent for group practices or supervision groups who want to learn the skills together and meet to discuss the skills and skill use in practice.

About your Presenter, Danna Markson, LCSW

Danna Markson

Danna Markson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 25 years of clinical experience. She is a past New Jersey NASW Social Worker of the Year and the owner and director of Mindsoother Therapy Center—a group psychotherapy practice in New Jersey with 11 clinicians and a DBT Skills focus. She successfully created DBT skills programs for many private practices. Danna has also been a featured presenter for NASW and many private companies.

Continuing Education Credit Info

Additional Participant CE Hours: If you are part of a team (one employer, one agency, or one group practice) and would like to enroll additional team members for CE Hour credit, email [email protected]. (This offer not valid for programs that include small group coaching.)

Additional participant CE Hours are $199 each.

This course is approved for:

  • NJ Social Workers: This course meets the requirements for 20 Continuing Education Hours for LSWs and LCSWs through the New Jersey National Association of Social Workers Continuing Education Approval Collaborative through August 31, 2022. Approval # 200104-822.
  • Social Workers: 20 CEUs for social workers pending through ACE.
  • Counselors: Rockstar Practice has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7082. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Rockstar Practice is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Begin learning DBT Skills today