Trainings and Seminars:
Focused on: DBT Principles, Concepts and Skills  
For the past 8 years, Pat has provided trainings/workshops and seminars on the
following topics at the following venues:

  • "DBT Principles, Concepts and Treatment" and "DBT Skills Training" at Adventist Behavioral
    Healthcare

  • "DBT Skills for Emotional And Behavioral Disorders in Children and Adolescents"  for PESI
    Seminars in Arizona

  • “DBT Principles and Concepts” at Montgomery County School Psychologist training

  • “DBT Principles and Concepts” at the Montgomery County Child Welfare Department

  • “Using DBT Skills Training and Philosophy to Engage and Understand Consumers” at St.
    Luke’s House, Inc

  • “DBT Principles and Skills Revisited” at Zumbro Valley Mental Health Center

  • "Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Philosophy to Understand, Engage and Motivate
    Clients" at the Montgomery County Commission for Women Professional Training Series

  • "Using DBT Skills training and Philosophy to Engage and Understand Consumers", at
    Community Behavioral Health rehab professionals training

  • DBT Skills Training for Adolescents, professional seminars at Zumbro Valley Mental Health
    Center, Rochester, Minnesota

  • "DBT Skills Training: Partnering with Parents to Help Children"; seminars given throughout
    the United States for PESI, Inc  

  • "DBT Basic Concepts of Acceptance"  at St. Luke's, Inc

  • "Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Introduction to Concepts and Philosophy and Skills Training
    Modules" for Silver Spring Therapists professional development

  • "Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Training to Support & Educate Parents of
    Mentally Ill Children" at the NASW State Conference

  • "Working with Children and Families Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy as a Guiding
    Philosophy" taught in 5 sessions to employees at Family and Child Services of Washington
    DC

  • "Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Basics for Consumers and Family Members"  at NAMI-MD
    Annual Statewide Conference

  • "DBT Basics for Residential Programs" at St, Luke's Training Day

  • "DBT Used in a Community Residence for Adolescents" at The International Society for the
    Investigation and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy

  • "DBT, Grove Street and Working with Parents"  to Psychiatric Residents at UMASS Med
    School

  • Social Work Module part of Bridge of Central Mass. Agency Orientation

  • "Mental Illness and Treatment Approaches" at Southboro Apartment Program staff
    meetings

  • Consumer Boundaries/Grooming presented as part of “Train the Trainers” at the Bridge

  • "Mental Illness and Behavior Management: Validation and Limit Setting, Acceptance and
    Change" at a Division Team Day

  • "Using Yourself as a Reinforcing Agent: Basic Principles in Behavior Management" at a
    Division Team Day

  • "Using Yourself as a Reinforcing Agent"  at The Bridge staff training
Pat provides DBT training of varying lengths
to a variety of audiences – clinicians and
therapists, mental health professionals,
paraprofessionals, family members, rehab
counselors, school counselors and teachers,
residential counselors. She can create a
workshop to meet your needs.
IN THE WORDS OF SOME TRAINING PARTICIPANTS:

"Pat is a dynamic and engaging facilitator, whose personal life stories really added to my
understanding and knowledge of how to better facilitate DBt skills training."

"Pat's training is fantastic. With all her experience...she makes it very applicable and not only to
our clients but for ourselves. She is very approachable and down to earth, and I like the ways
she accepts all questions and challenges...It could be a lot of dry technique, but she is able to
present it in a way that is very interesting."

"Although I have had previous DBT training, I learned new information from her training".

"....I would hear her all over again..."


To arrange for a training or seminar, Contact Pat.



  • February 16, 2010 TELESEMINAR: "DBT Skills for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in
    Children and Adolescents" - 2PM To register contact PESI at www.pesi.com
  • March 6, 2010 - Anxiety Disorders of America Annual Conference - Baltimore - workshop
    entitled, "DBT Skills To Help Children with Emotion Dysregulation and their Parents"
  • March 18, 2010 - WEBINAR: "Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions with DBT Skills"
    - To register, contact the Maryland Coalition of Families for Children's Mental Health
  • March 26, 2010 - Maryland National Association of Social Workers Conference - Baltimore -
    DBT workshop: "DBT Skills for Social Workers: Using the DBT Philosophy to Engage and
    Treat Parents and Children".

UPCOMING SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS