( HS Smith 059230 2025) DBT for Neurodivergent Clients: Adapted Techniques to Improve Emotional Regulation and Interpersonal

Course overview

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has helped thousands of therapists improve their clients life skills quicker and more effectively than they ever thought possible but if you work with clients who are neurodivergent, you could be missing key ingredients to successfully integrate DBT practices into their lives. Whether it be talking too fast or not giving enough processing time, using analogies or idioms that dont work, or even expressing frustrations over client manner of participating, you might unwittingly be perceived as shutting them down or trying to fix them and make them neurotypical rather than equip them to build an abundant life in their own way. Watch neurodiverse speaker and DBT expert Hannah Smith, as she shows you highly effective ways to adapt this powerful treatment for this population and learn how to coach these skills in an accessible & inclusive way. Youll gain Helpful tools to present DBT concepts to your neurodivergent clients and make them more accessible and useable Client focused ways to target DBT skills, such as emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness that do not come across as be more neurotypical Increased confidence and competence in identifying and working with key aspects of neurodivergence and so much more! Clients are crying out for skills to help them manage the overwhelm but not so they can be neurotypical and DBT, like no other therapy, includes whole-person wholebrained skills that can do this.