The following is a list of classes and events taught by Dr. Kim Lynn Lehnert.
April 25, 2020
Doing Individual Dialectical Behavior Therapy (3 CEU’s)
When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 25
Where: Hope House Ministries
Learn specific skills and how to apply DBT informed therapy.
Treating multi-problem patients experiencing unrelenting crises can be a challenge for most clinicians. In this
workshop Dr. Lehnert 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.
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May 9, 2020
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Mindfulness Skills (3 CEU’s)
When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 9
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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June 13, 2020
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Distress Tolerance Skills (3 CEU’s)
When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 13
Where: Hope House Ministries
When in emotional crisis, most people default to wanting change, fix, or escape their current circumstances. Distress
tolerance skills help people not to make emotional situations worse by acting on intense pressure to resolve conflict
immediately. In this workshop, Dr. Lehnert will teach participants crisis survival strategies to get through short-term
crises and reality acceptance skills to cope with long-term life problems. The critical role of practicing willingness
rather than willfulness will also be discussed.
Objectives:
- Understand the need for tolerating emotional distress
- Learn Crisis Survival Strategies not to escalate emotional crises.
- Learn the role of reality acceptance strategies.
- Practice radical acceptance.
- Understand the difference between willfulness versus willingness.
- Discuss and practice how to turn the mind towards being skillful.
- Skills to use to manage extreme emotions.
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July 25, 2020
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Emotion Regulation Skills (3 CEU’s)
When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 25
Where: Hope House Ministries
For patients experiencing unrelenting life crises, learning emotion regulation skills is key to changing their lives for
the better.
For multi-problem patients experiencing unrelenting life crises, learning emotion regulation skills is key to changing
their lives for the better. In this workshop, Dr. Lehnert will teach participants how to understand and name emotions
accurately, decrease the frequency of unwanted emotions, decrease emotion vulnerability, and decrease emotional
suffering. Skills to manage extreme emotions effectively will also be reviewed.
Objectives:
Help patients to learn to identify and label emotions accurately
Identifying factors that interfere with emotion regulation
Model of emotions in DBT
- Skills Used to Regulate Emotions.
- Skills to increase positive emotions.
- Skills to decrease emotional vulnerability.
- Skills to let go of emotional suffering.
- Skills to manage extreme emotions.
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August 8, 2020
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills (3 CEU’s)
When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, August 8
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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September 19, 2020
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Middle Path Skills (3 CEU’s)
When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, September 19
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.
