Online Instructor-led Courses

In our online courses, you and a small group of colleagues meet with instructors who use engaging didactics, personal experiential exercises, and between session practice with clients to help you learn the evidence-based practice they are teaching. Participants view a live video feed of the instructor while simultaneously viewing a PowerPoint presentation, and there will be ample opportunity for questions. Experiential learning is emphasized (i.e., participants will be asked to practice many of the strategies between sessions), and participants will be encouraged to use a discussion forum to discuss the material between class meetings.

Registration is now open for 2 new classes:

ACT and FAP Matrix Class with Benjamin Schoendorff MA, MSc
Improving Consultation on DBT Teams - 6-online sessions with Kelly Koerner, PhD

ACT and FAP Matrix Class with Benjamin Schoendorff MA, MSc

In this course you will learn how to integrate the fundamentals of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy with the Matrix model, a simple intuitive model of clinical behavior analysis you can share with clients. In this distance learning format, you and a small group of colleagues will meet for six (6) online sessions with Benjamin Schoendorff, MA, MSc. The course uses engaging didactics, experiential exercises, and between session practice with clients and support from your trainer to help you learn how to:

Present the ACT model to clients through the Matrix and help them increase their ability to notice the relevant processes and get moving,
Collaboratively conceptualize your clinical cases with your clients,
Foster deep and empathic therapeutic relationships with your clients that help move powerful clinical processes,
Collaboratively develop appropriate and specific in-between sessions assignments,
Flexibly identify workable clinical interventions that get clients and therapy unstuck,
Use a variety of techniques designed to maximize your client's psychological flexibility and actions toward a rich and meaningful life.

This course includes the rare opportunity to benchmark the growth of your skills with a before, after and follow-up assessment of your matrix skills!

Homework Requirement: Expect to spend between one to two hours per week on homework assignments.

WHEN: Classes will be held on the following Wednesdays: February 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th,March 7th and 14th, from 11:00-12:45 pacific time/12:00-1:45 mountain/1:00-2:45 central/2:00-3:45eastern/19:00-20:45 GMT. A technical hook-up session to test drive the technology is planned forWednesday January 25th, same time.

Level:All experience levels

Price: $300

Instructor Credentials:
Benjamin Schoendorff, MA, MSc, M.Ps. is a licensed psychologist in Québec and a peer-reviewed ACT trainer who has pioneered the introduction of ACT in France before recently moved to Montreal, where he works as a clinician and researcher at the Fernand-Seguin research center of the Louis H. Lafontaine Hospital. Benji is interested in the integration of different models of clinical behavior analysis and ways to make the powerful tools of these approaches intuitive and easy to use for clinicians. The author of 2 books and several chapters on ACT and FAP, he has a particular interest in the integration of FAP and ACT within a broad and flexible framework. He believes that the flexibility ACT promotes and the deep and meaningful relationships FAP encourages are powerful levers to get even the most difficult clients moving again.

Psychologists: The Evidence-Based Practice Institute (EBPI) is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. EBPI maintains responsibility for the program and its content. EBPI has allocated 12 hours of CE within APA guidelines. After you successfully complete a program (attendance at all scheduled sessions), your CE certificate will be emailed to you.

Accreditation Statements & Continuing Education Information: FYI: Licensing and continuing education requirements vary by state. Please contact your state's regulatory authority to verify if this course meets your licensing and/or continuing education requirements.

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Improving Consultation on DBT Teams - 6-online sessions with Kelly Koerner, PhD

Course Dates & Times
Wednesdays at 9-10am pacific/noon-1 pm eastern on February 8 & 22, March 7 & 21, April 4 & 25

Course Description
Deliberate practice can improve your team's consultation skills and remedy some of the inevitable difficulties that happen when groups of people discuss complicated problems, with high emotion, under time pressure.

In this six-session online course, you will learn a series of practice exercises designed to strengthen DBT peer consultation skills.   Class meetings are interspersed with off weeks you use to apply what you have learned. During the online meetings, you and other participants work together as a DBT consultation team with Kelly Koerner serving as the consultation team leader. As team leader, she will model and lead the group through a series of exercises to enhance consultation skills. Then on the off weeks you apply what you've learned by leading the practice exercises with your own home team.   We will cover the following six themes:

1.   Therapy for the Therapist: Conceptualizing Where the Therapist Needs Help
2.   How to Make Clear Consultation Requests
3.   Keeping the Balance
4.   Keeping the Focus
5.   Keeping Usefully Divergent vs. Unhelpfully Polarized
6.   Giving and Receiving Hard-to-Hear Feedback

Objectives: By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Better conceptualize where the therapist needs help as s/he asks for consultation
Help team members make clearer consultation requests
Redirect unproductive team consultations into focused, balanced, usefully divergent conversations
Help team members give and receive hard-to-hear feedback

Level: Intermediate to advanced knowledge and experience using DBT strategies

Prerequisite: Have team willing to let you lead them thru the practice exercises you learn during the course.

Technical requirements: To attend the web conferences you will need a phone and computer with high-speed internet access.

Enrollment: Sign-up is first come, first-served.

Price: $200 US

Current EBP Community Members Register Here

Course Leader: Kelly Koerner, PhD, is Clinical Faculty at the University of Washington and Creative Director & CEO of the Evidence-Based Practice Institute, a social enterprise that helps practitioners learn and use evidence-based mental health care practices. She is an expert clinician, clinical supervisor and trainer in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and author of the recent book, Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Practical Guide.

Cancellations, Substitutions, and Refunds
Because online education is new for many of us, EBPI has 100% satisfaction guarantee. You may cancel your subscription to a course at any time. If you are not completely satisfied with your educational experience, we will refund your registration fee in full. Simply contact us, describe what was dissatisfying so that we have a chance to improve our offerings and we will refund your registration fee.

Accreditation Statements & Continuing Education Information
FYI: Licensing and continuing education requirements vary by state. Please contact your state's regulatory authority to verify if this course meets your licensing and/or continuing education requirements.

Psychologists: The Evidence-Based Practice Institute (EBPI) is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. EBPI maintains responsibility for the program and its content. EBPI has allocated 6 hours of CE within APA guidelines. After you successfully complete a program (full attendance), your CE certificate will be emailed to you.