When working with clients that are actively in crisis, folks are often experiencing intense, emotional dysregulation. These intense emotions of fear, anger, frustration, hopelessness, aggression, and sadness can often interfere with providing help in effective ways. One treatment goal of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is to help individuals manage intense emotional dysregulation. In addition, there are skills in DBT that also help clients and families manage high risk behaviors and ineffective action urges/behaviors. These skills include, in part, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, validation, and commitment strategies, and are also effective and transferable to crisis work as a whole.
During this training, Mary-Catherine (M-C) Nimphius will begin with a foundation in validation of both the clients in crises and the workers who are serving them. Then, there will be an overview of skills in both distress tolerance and emotion regulation from DBT therapy; these skills will be helpful for both the crisis care provider and the client alike. In addition, there will be a focus on commitment strategies and motivational strategies to work on safety and crisis management. This will also include directive ways to manage safety planning, and solution analysis. The solution analysis will help to prepare clients for unforeseen barriers to the safety/action plan and work to reduce repeated and preventable returns to service.
This training is geared for all audiences and levels of mental health training.
Registrants who fully attend this event or training will receive a certificate of attendance via email within two weeks after the event or training.
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Mary-Catherine Nimphius, MS, LPC (she/hers) DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified DBT Clinician™ |
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Mary-Catherine (M-C) Nimphius is a licensed professional counselor. She received her BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and her MS from Alverno College in 2015. M-C completed her internship with the Center for Behavioral Medicine and continued worked with the CBM Team until 2020. While working with CBM, she collaborated with colleagues on program development for the Adolescent DBT program, supervised Master level students, and participated in clinic research. She then moved to the Pacific Northwest and joined the Team at Portland DBT Institute. There she was a member of the Eating Disorders Team in both IOP and outpatient care. She provided adult and adolescent DBT, facilitated groups for PTSD, eating disorder recovery, and DBT skills training. She became a Linehan Board Certified clinician in 2021. M-C has also completed intensive training and is passionate about working with folks with OCD, PTSD, and other anxiety disorders. M-C continues to work with the Center for Behavioral Medicine remotely, providing comprehensive DBT to both adults and adolescents and their families. In addition, M-C continues to teach with her alma mater, Alverno College in the Masters of Community Psychology program. She is committed to radically genuine, non-judgmental, and validating therapeutic collaboration. Her goal is to help clients with self-efficacy in managing the stressors of life and building their life worth living. M-C is a Certified DBT Clinician through the Linehan Board of CertificationTM.
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The Great Lakes MHTTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
