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CBC’s continuing education program offers training for professionals at all levels.

CBC co-founder, Dr. Alec Miller, is the co-developer of comprehensive DBT treatment and training programs for youth, families, and adults in clinical, corporate, and school settings. These training programs have been developed with his CBC colleagues who have 150 years of combined experience training school, clinical and corporate settings.

Each training combines structured instruction with fully debriefed therapy demonstrations, showing DBT applied with diverse clients and high-risk presentations. Participants see the model implemented with clinical precision, not just described.

We train and consult with school administrators, teachers, and clinical staff to build and strengthen their DBT services for students of all ages.

  • Our standard school/agency-based program includes:
  • Orientation and commitment workshop with key stakeholders
    • (e.g., Superintendents, PPS directors, building principals, clinical staff, special education department, guidance/counseling staff)
  • Three-to-five-day workshop of DBT foundations and skills training
  • Implementation workshop with direct providers
  • Ongoing bi-weekly consultation for at least two years


DBT in Schools

Dr. Miller and his colleagues have developed two types of DBT for schools: Comprehensive School-Based DBT and Universal-Classroom DBT.

(CSB-DBT; Miller, Rathus & Linehan, 2007; Rathus & Miller, 2015, Miller & Rathus, in press)

This program targets youth who exhibit at least some degree of emotional and behavioral dysregulation and uses all of the standard DBT modes of treatment: individual counseling, skills training group, brief skills coaching during the school day, therapist consultation team). CSB-DBT is considered a Tier 2 or Tier 3 intervention

(DBT Skills in Schools: The Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents; DBT STEPS-A, Mazza, Mazza, Miller, Rathus & Murphy, 2016)

This program prepares educators to teach DBT skills to 6th-12th grade students in a classroom setting. This is considered a Tier 1 intervention to help students learn how to regulate emotions, manage relationships effectively, better focus on their school work, and tolerate distress before crises erupt.

(DBT Skills in Elementary Schools: The Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Grades K-5 (DBT-STEPS-E, Mazza, Mazza, Rathus, & Miller, 2026)

This program prepares educators to teach DBT skills to K-5th grade students in a classroom setting. This is a Tier 1 intervention to help students learn how to regulate emotions, manage relationships effectively, better focus on their school work, and tolerate distress before crises erupt.

Provides wrap-around Multi-Tiered Systems of support in social and emotional learning by training school staff in both Universal Classroom DBT and Comprehensive School-Based DBTproviding Tier 1, Tier 2 and 3 supports.

Schools that have opted to conduct both types of DBT, report having several of these goals in mind:

  • Providing a common social-emotional skills-based language for all students, teachers, clinicians, and administrators
  • Providing skills that can be taught early in the child’s life with the hope of preventing some of the challenging problems that arise in later adolescence
  • Providing comprehensive School-Based DBT to students already exhibiting significant emotional and behavioral dysregulation allows the school to manage and maintain these students within the district rather than having to pay for the student to attend out-of-district placements
  • Providing comprehensive DBT in schools often reduces ER, psychiatric, and medical hospitalization visits, while keeping kids in school
  • Providing DBT improves emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes
  • Providing DBT is an evidence-based intervention that can be used transdiagnostically, hence having greater applicability to a broader number of students
  • Providing DBT can help reduce staff and administrator burnout by providing everyone with the necessary tools to effect change in many students
  • DBT is school-friendly in that DBT skills can be taught in classrooms and groups

Dr. Minu Thomas, CBC’s Director of School Consulting, is a school psychologist by training as well as a former school district administrator. In those prior roles, Dr. Thomas implemented Universal Classroom DBT and Comprehensive School-Based DBT and is passionate about supporting educators implementing DBT in their professional and personal lives. Drs. Thomas, Miller, and the CBC school-based training team, have received excellent feedback about their training.

Recent Testimonials about CBC’s School-Based DBT Trainings:

Joel Barlow High School, Redding, CT
Best training and trainer in the 20 years I have been in education.

Hawthorne Cedar Knolls, Hawthrone, NY
This training is engaging, informative, and useful for not only clinicians but teachers as well. I still think all faculty and staff should be exposed to this training to effectively address students' needs.

Meridian/Midland School District, Michigan
Love it so far, it's been great! Can’t wait to implement it in the school! Thank you!

Pleasantville School District, Pleasantville, NY
The demeanor of the instructors was very engaging and positive, making attempts to validate and also connect to the participants throughout the training

Dr. Thomas’ effectiveness comes from her ability to connect and share personal experiences that are relevant. Thank you so much for your candor and support. I'm really enjoying all that I am learning. I think this helps classroom teachers to help their students SO much.

DBT in Schools Supplemental Training

I’ve been hesitant to integrate dbt because I want to do it in a way that is effective. This is the first training I’ve been to that seems like it will really lay out a way to do it in a classroom setting. Important and relatable information is shared that can apply to students who we work with and our personal lives.

Businesses & Corporations

CBC has developed a series of brief presentations and a more extensive curriculum for companies who are interested in helping their staff become more effective, efficient, productive, and content in the workplace.

We work to strengthen a company’s intangible assets. By teaching management leadership training and building on employees skills, this adds to a culture of productivity and harmony that are integral to the success of any business. This also includes stress management, mindfulness, and communication skills, that are meant to enhance the overall well-being of your employees while reducing staff burnout.

CBC believes that a company that supports its workforce will be rewarded with a happier and more fulfilling work environment and greater productivity.

Dr Kelly Graling, CBC’s Clinical Director and lead Corporate Trainer, will assess your corporation’s needs and collaborate with Drs. Miller and McGinn to develop either a customized lecture or a more comprehensive curriculum to meet your goals. We cover a wide range of topics, geared to teach and implement evidence-based practices that will be designed to enhance knowledge and performance.

DBT Five-Day Foundational for Adults in Clinical, Behavioral Medicine and Forensic Settings

DBT is an established evidence-based treatment for multi-problem adults. Dr. Alec Miller and his colleagues will teach the theories, structure, and practice of the DBT model, including strategies for individual sessions, skills training groups, inter-session coaching, and the effective management of a consultation team.

The instructors will utilize various teaching formats including didactics, videos, role-play demonstrations and participant exercises. Research has shown DBT with adolescents to effectively reduce self-harm behaviors, depression, hopelessness, dropout from treatment, psychiatric hospitalization, behavioral incidents in the milieu, aggressive behaviors, substance use and interpersonal difficulties, and cost while improving adaptive coping skills and global adjustment.

Workshop Objectives

The training will cover a range of strategies, and participants will:

  • List and explain unique mental health issues arising in a post-pandemic world
  • Explain the biosocial theory of borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation
  • Assess multi-problem clients
  • Demonstrate use of orientation and commitment strategies effective for adults
  • Explain the treatment structure and targets for multi-problem, high-risk clients
  • List and explain the various change and acceptance strategies used in individual DBT
  • List and explain the dialectical dilemmas associated with over-and under-control of emotions and behaviors
  • Identify 3 functions for skills coaching between individual sessions
  • Explain dialectical thinking and acting
  • Teach dialectical thinking and acting
  • Create and maintain skills training groups with multi-problem clients
  • Explain 3 key elements to operating an effective therapist consultation team meeting

Our Learning Objectives by Day handout can be found here.

Continuing Education

Participants will receive 35 Continuing Education credit hours (35 CE credits) for New York social workers and all psychologists. CBC also offers other CE credits throughout this year. This course will also provide required hours of training in DBT necessary to apply to become certified through the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification (DBT-LBC).

Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants LLP (CBC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CBC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0096; and by the New York State Education Department's State Board of Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0219. CBC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

DBT for Professionals and Students

Psychwire DBT Online Training with Dr. Alec Miller and Colleagues

CBC co-founder, Dr. Alec Miller, has partnered with Psychwire to deliver ONLINE comprehensive and skills-based DBT training programs for adolescents, families, and adults. Developed alongside co-creators Dr. Jill Rathus and Dr. Marsha Linehan, these programs reflect how CBC teaches and implements DBT in real-world clinical settings.

Each training combines structured instruction with fully debriefed therapy demonstrations, showing DBT applied with diverse clients and high-risk presentations. Participants see the model implemented with clinical precision, not just described.

For clinicians seeking rigorous DBT training that is immediately usable in practice or across systems of care, this is the right place to start.

Building Expertise in the Evidence-Based Standard

“My primary clinical and research focus has been the development and refinement of DBT for adolescents and families. Dr. Jill Rathus and I, along with Dr. Marsha Linehan, are the original developers of Comprehensive DBT for Adolescents and Families. Led by Dr. Rathus and I, this training pathway is designed to support faithful, program-adherent implementation in clinical and health system settings.”

–Dr. Alec Miller, Co-Founder and Co-Director, CBC

DBT Foundational for Adolescent and Families (On-Demand), for those practitioners joining an existing DBT team.

Developed and led by Drs. Alec Miller and Jill Rathus, this course reflects their work as the original treatment developers of the model. This course includes training segments conducted by several CBC DBT experts including Drs. Kelly Graling, Deborah Kanter, & Chad Brice. Other DBT experts included in this course are Drs. Melanie Harned, Erica Tan, and several other esteemed colleagues, along with teaching excerpts from Dr. Marsha Linehan.

It provides a structured, implementation-focused introduction to DBT as adapted for adolescents and caregivers, covering individual therapy, skills training groups, family sessions, consultation teams, inter-session skills coaching, as well as specialized parent sessions.

Designed for clinicians joining an existing DBT team, the program was created to address the clinical realities of treating adolescents experiencing suicidality, self-harm, and severe emotion dysregulation, particularly within specialized youth treatment settings, including hospitals, where developmentally informed adaptation, active family involvement, and system-aware implementation are essential.

Through detailed therapy demonstrations and case-based instruction, clinicians will see how to manage high-risk presentations while maintaining clinical adherence and program fidelity to the DBT Model.

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COMING SOON: DBT Intensive for Adolescents and Families, for those practitioners starting a new DBT team = Foundational Training above PLUS ongoing consultation (see below).

Working with high-risk adolescent treatment requires more than didactic learning; it demands structured consultation, team cohesion, and ongoing adherence monitoring.

DBT Intensive for Adolescents and Families is designed for teams committed to delivering comprehensive DBT. This pathway provides the structure, depth, and consultation support required for teams to implement DBT with accountability and precision. This two-part program also meets requirements for the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification (DBT-LBC).

The program includes:

  • The full DBT Foundational on-demand course
  • 20 hours of live consultation with a DBT Linehan Certified Expert Consultant experienced with this population (from Dr. Miller and his CBC Team of consultants at 914-506-4727 or email us at consulting@cbc-psychology.com
  • Consultation focused on DBT team and program development, clinical case conceptualization, implementation barriers, and strengthening model fidelity in active clinical settings
  • Meets DBT-LBC consultation requirements and provides CE/CME credits necessary

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Completion of Foundational or Intensive DBT training is the first step toward certification as a DBT Clinician. These programs on Psychwire align with DBT-Linehan Board of Certification requirements.

For consultation support as part of DBT intensive training, certification preparation, or private case consultation, please contact the CBC team directly in NY, USA, at 914-506-4727 or email us at consulting@cbc-psychology.com

For clinicians seeking structured DBT skills training without comprehensive implementation, the following programs provide practical, demonstration-based instruction that can be immediately integrated into practice.

Please Note: The DBT Skills courses provide CE/CME credits but are not part of the DBT certification pathway. They are designed to strengthen skill integration and clinical precision, not to replace the comprehensive DBT training required for full certification.

DBT Skills for Adolescents and Families

Developed by Dr. Alec Miller Jill Rathus, and Dr. Marsha Linehan, this course trains clinicians to deliver DBT skills alongside the adolescent-specific module, Walking the Middle Path, which directly addresses dialectical tension between teens and caregivers, reducing invalidation and polarized interaction patterns while strengthening balanced communication.

Dr. Miller and Rathus demonstrate skills delivery across group, individual, and family formats, addressing disengagement, escalation, and family conflict while maintaining model adherence.

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Applied DBT Skills for Mood Disorders

This course demonstrates how to apply DBT skills with clients presenting with anxiety disorders, depression, chronic mood dysregulation, and bipolar symptoms. Dr. Alec Miller and Jill Rathus show how to strategically combine and sequence interventions to reduce avoidance, interrupt mood-driven behaviors, increase activation, and stabilize emotional intensity. Case demonstrations illustrate how to adapt interventions while preserving model fidelity.

> LEARN MORE ON PSYCHWIRE

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If your organization is seeking private DBT case consultation directly from Dr. Alec Miller and the CBC team please email Dr Miller directly via the Contact Form on this site to discuss availability.

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