Mood Dysregulation Masterclass: DBT Interventions for Clients Who Escalate, Shut Down & Can't Regulate

Course overview

This 6-hour intensive training equips mental health professionals with a practical, DBT-informed framework for treating clients who escalate quickly, shut down emotionally, or feel overwhelmed by rapidly shifting emotional states. From a DBT perspective, these patterns reflect underlying deficits in emotion regulation skills, heightened emotional vulnerability, and reinforcement cycles that maintain dysregulated behaviors and traditional approaches often fall short when emotional arousal overrides cognitive strategies. Learn to assess and conceptualize mood dysregulation through a DBT lens, including the role of biological sensitivity, invalidating environments, and the interaction between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Gain practical, in-session interventions using core DBT strategies mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness integrated with elements of CBT and trauma-informed care to help clients reduce emotional intensity, increase behavioral control, and build a life worth living. Designed for licensed mental health professionals seeking immediately applicable, DBT-based strategies to work more effectively with emotionally dysregulated clients across a wide range of diagnoses.