The following is a list of classes and events taught by Dr. Kim Lynn Lehnert.
June 13, 2020
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills (3 CEU’s)
When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 13
Where: Hope House Ministries
This workshop will focus on learning to help individuals with high emotional intensity to improve relationships and
emotional support in their lives. Dr. Lehnert will teach participants how to help their clients be skillful in getting
what they want and need from others, how to build relationships, end destructive ones, and create, maintain balance, and
change in relationships. Trouble-shooting factors that get in the way of being interpersonally skillful will also be
addressed.
Objectives:
Identify how to assist clients in earning to balance wants and needs in relationships.
Understand factors that interfere with interpersonal effectiveness
Debunking myths about interpersonal relationships.
- Empower clients to clarify goals in interpersonal situations.
- Learn 3 goals of interpersonal effectiveness.
- Understand how to observe personal limits in relationships.
- Learn how to make interpersonal repairs.
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July 25, 2020
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Middle Path Skills (3 CEU’s)
When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 25
Where: Hope House Ministries
Engaging DBT informed therapy.
In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), the Middle Path skills were developed to help adolescents and their families more
effectively problem-solve and cope with complicated family dynamics. In this workshop, Dr. Lehnert will teach
participants the common dilemmas that families have to confront, including how to know when adolescent behaviors are
typical or problematic. To create and maintain balance in family relationships, dialectics, validation strategies, and
behavioral change strategies will be discussed.
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August 8, 2020
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Mindfulness Skills (3 CEU’s)
When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, August 8
Where: Hope House Ministries
When working with highly emotional and high-risk patients, mindfulness skills play a critical role in helping to
regulate intense emotions.
In this workshop, Dr. Lehnert will teach participants how to identify three states of Mind: Emotion Mind, Reasonable
Mind, and Wise Mind. You will also learn skills to help patients learn to control their own minds rather than be
emotionally hi-jacked. Participants will also learn skills to observe and stop urges to engage in high risk and
problem behaviors.
Objectives:
- understand the role of mindfulness in teaching emotion regulation
- Identify three states of Mind and their defining features
- Identify “What” skills of mindfulness
- Identify “How” skills of mindfulness
- Use mindfulness to observe and surf behavioral urges
- Learn ways to extend the practice of mindfulness.
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September 19, 2020
Doing Individual Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) (3 CEU’s)
When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, September 19
Where: Hope House Ministries
Treating multi-problem patients experiencing unrelenting crises can be a challenge for most clinicians.
This workshop will teach how to prioritize treatment goals and how to gain commitment for change when patients seem stuck in intense, emotional pain. Participants will learn how to monitor high risk behaviors in treatment and how to effectively shift long-standing, ineffective behavioral patterns to help patients build lives worth living.
Objectives:
- Goals of first 4 sessions in DBT.
- Understanding and using DBT commitment strategies.
- Using DBT diary cards for behavioral monitoring.
- Hierarchy of treatment targets in DBT.
- Learning to conduct behavioral chain analysis.
- Applying solution analysis.
- Role of between sessions skills coaching.
- “24 hour” rule in DBT.
