Certified Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Professional (C-DBT) Training

PESI
Oct 8
3 min read

Help clients build “lives worth living” with adaptable, evidence-based DBT skills you can apply across diagnoses and delivery modes.

Why This Workshop Matters

DBT has expanded well beyond its original use with borderline personality disorder and is now widely applied for complex presentations including suicidal ideation, self-harm, substance use, and chronic emotion dysregulation. This comprehensive online training shows you exactly how to integrate DBT into everyday practice, including telehealth, with practical frameworks, demonstrations, and printable resources to use immediately.

Learning Outcomes

By completing this training you will be able to:

Explain DBT’s biosocial theory and core assumptions to guide case conceptualisation and treatment planning.
Structure individual and group sessions using DBT treatment stages, hierarchies, and priorities (life-threatening, therapy-interfering, quality-of-life behaviours).
Teach and coach the four DBT skills modules: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness.
Use diary cards and behavioural chain analysis to set agendas, target behaviours, and generate effective solutions.
Apply validation, contingency management, and cognitive/“irreverent” strategies appropriately in session — including phone/skills coaching.
Develop safety plans, identify hospitalisation thresholds, and navigate ethical/legal issues for telehealth delivery.

What’s Covered

Across five modules you will explore:

Foundations: biosocial theory, dialectics, evidence base, and therapeutic factors.
Treatment framework & structure: stages, hierarchies, and running effective individual and group formats.
Skills training: teaching, reinforcing, and generalising Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness.
Tools & interventions: diary cards, behavioural chain analysis, commitment/orienting strategies, validation, contingencies, cognitive tactics, reciprocal/irreverent styles, and phone coaching.
Consultation & safety: consultation team, managing challenging behaviours, suicide/self-harm assessment and intervention, hospitalisation protocols, and an in-session demo.

Who Should Attend

Counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers
Mental health nurses, case managers, allied health clinicians
Coaches and wellbeing practitioners working with emotion regulation and behaviour change

Facilitator

Lane Pederson, PsyD, LP, C-DBT — internationally recognised DBT trainer and author, presenting the complete online C-DBT curriculum with demonstrations, handouts and practical tools.

Delivery Details

This program is delivered online (self-paced) by our education partner PESI with ~33 hours of instruction and up to 34.25 CE hours available via the provider. Includes extensive handouts (500+ pages) and bonus trainings/resources for children/adolescents and telehealth.

Nexus College CPD Recognition (optional): Book a Live Online Assessment Interview to validate learning outcomes for the Australian/Asia-Pacific context. Successful participants receive a Nexus College Certificate of Attendance confirming demonstrated competencies (mirrors our Fall Prevention page process).

Certification Pathway

Completing the course fulfils the educational requirements to become Certified in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (C-DBT) through Evergreen Certifications.

PESI’s details a simple 3-step process:

Watch course,
Complete CE tests,
Submit certification questionnaire.

Investment & CPD Points

Delivery: Online, self-paced (PESI) + optional Nexus CPD assessment interview
Duration: Approx. 33+ hours instruction (provider)
CPD Recognition: Up to 34.25 CE/CPD hours available via provider; Nexus CPD hours confirmed upon successful assessment.
Investment: Standard PESI enrolment fees apply (see partner page). Nexus CPD assessment is optional.

What You Get

Lifetime access to course videos and materials
500+ pages of slides/handouts + 30+ practical worksheets
Bonus: Telehealth best-practice seminar; DBT skills training for children/adolescents; DBT manuals/workbooks (as listed on provider page)

Accreditation Partners

Delivered in collaboration with PESI. Certification administered by Evergreen Certifications. Nexus College Australasia provides CPD verification and certification for the Asia-Pacific region.