DBT Strategies for Relationships: Managing Interpersonal Conflict and Emotional Dysregulation

This On-Demand workshop explores evidence-based Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) strategies designed to help clients navigate challenging interpersonal dynamics with greater awareness and emotional regulation.

Interpersonal conflicts and emotional dysregulation often interfere with clients’ presence, relationships, and overall well-being. Through this self-paced workshop, you'll gain practical DBT techniques—including the Mindfulness of Others five-part strategy—to promote self-regulation and support clients in engaging more effectively during emotionally charged situations.

In addition to core DBT practices, the workshop offers insight into additional strategies that help clients maintain emotional balance and confidently navigate interpersonal challenges. Whether clients struggle with emotional reactivity or entrenched communication patterns, DBT-informed approaches can provide effective, compassionate solutions.

This workshop includes on-demand CE learning and downloadable resources to support immediate application in your clinical work.

In this workshop, you will gain:

• A deeper understanding of how mindfulness and other DBT strategies can play an important role in supporting challenging interpersonal dynamics.
• Practical guide to the “mindfulness of others” five-part DBT strategy and mindfulness skills to cultivate awareness and intentionality in interactions.
• An overview of DBT techniques that can be used to help with distress tolerance and manage emotion dysregulation, such as grounding exercises and self-soothing strategies.

Learning Lessons, Practices and Transcripts:

• How DBT Skills Can Support Interpersonal Challenges

• Practice: Mindfulness of Others

• Application: Mindfulness and Distress Tolerance Skills for Interpersonal and Emotional Dysregulation

• Guide: Mindfulness of Others Five Part Strategy + Practical DBT Skills for Interpersonal Regulation.

• Professional transcripts for easy reference.

CE Hours = 1.5

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Featured Instructor: Dylan Zambrano, MSW, RSW

Dylan Zambrano, MSW is the founder of DBT Virtual, an online dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) practice. He has several years of experience working on a DBT team within an outpatient mental health hospital setting, and provides DBT training, consultation and supervision to mental health therapists and organizations. He is the author of The DBT Skills Daily Journal, a book that combines guided journaling with DBT skills-building. Dylan also teaches courses in mindfulness and compassion meditation at the University of Toronto.