DBT: Interpersonal Effectiveness 2024
Learn DBT skills to manage interactions, navigate relationships and communicate effectively
This module helps individuals to examine their relationship dynamics and find more balance. It discusses the importance of clearly identifying goals and priorities in interactions with others to improve skillful relating. It provides clarity on maintaining healthy boundaries and teaches skills to communicate effectively to increase the chance you will get your relationship needs met in healthy ways.
It teaches skills to improve relationships and to say no when it is wise to do so.
Nine live sessions and eight (plus) weeks of skills training
Free pre-requisite material available from 13th January
First live Welcome Webinar 20th January
Live skills-focused sessions Saturdays 3rd Feb - 23rd March, 10am (AEDT)
What is included?
• Weekly live 90 minute Q&A to connect, clarify and deepen your practice.
• 90-120 minute in-depth DBT skills training sessions with additional material to teach you how to change yourself and apply the skills in daily life. I take this training well beyond the text-books and share examples and genuine insights from years of personal and professional DBT practice
• $120 AUD per week (plus GST) for nine weeks, $80 (plus GST) for concession card holders*. I personally subsidise these concession places to help committed and enthusiastic participants on limited incomes to access the program. Click Support on the top page header to ask for a coupon code. Spaces are limited.
• Skills training videos available throughout the module to catch up or revise without paying for additional sessions
• Downloadable handouts, resources, practical activities & information
• Secure & private webinar login so you can participate anonymously without risk
Webinars maintain privacy, remove difficult group interactions and facilitate learning regardless of location or professional role.
Features of the Course
Reliable
Learn all the skills taught in comprehensive DBT programs from an intensively trained and passionate clinical psychologist.
Cancel anytime and you will not be charged for content yet to be delivered.
Available
No waitlists, expensive assessment processes or need to be in crisis to access DBT skills.
Program available for anyone who wants to learn, regardless of geographical location.
Inclusive approach
Anonymous login facilitates an inclusive approach suitable for clinicians, family members, partners and those with lived experience.
From a DBT perspective, the skills we need to manage challenges are the same.
Nine live sessions and eight weeks of in-depth skills training all about navigating relationships. Below is a weekly outline of what you will learn.
Interpersonal Effectiveness Outline
Course Pricing
Yvette
Dr Yvette Vardy (she/her) is a clinical psychologist with a strong interest in borderline personality disorder and in helping those with complex issues and traumatic histories to overcome their difficulties and recover. She has established several Dialectical Behaviour Therapy programs in Australia and worked as a senior educator with Spectrum, Personality Disorders Service of Victoria, training clinicians state-wide.
Dr Vardy has completed Intensive and Comprehensive DBT and DBT-PE training and written a doctorate investigating the intolerance of "aloneness" in borderline personality disorder. In 2019, she published a peer-reviewed journal article on this work, which includes an assessment tool capturing the intensity and severity of the aloneness experience. She is passionate about breaking down barriers to accessing quality care.
