Enrolling now · starts August 26
DBT Skills for Friends and Family
Education and skills for anyone who loves someone with BPD, BPD traits, or other issues of strong emotions.
Our next 8-week cohort starts August 26. Spots are limited.
This course is designed for spouses, parents, adult-children, friends, and anyone who loves someone with strong emotions. You'll learn skills to help you better interact with your loved one, reduce conflict, promote your own well-being, and better understand emotion dysregulation.
How can this course help me?
Living with or loving someone with borderline personality disorder (BPD), severe depression, and other issues of strong emotions can be very difficult. Often, it can seem like everything you try just makes things worse. If you're struggling to maintain an important relationship but find yourself frustrated over and over, we might be able to help. The skills we teach provide a new way of relating — probably very different than what you have tried before.
Want to understand the skills themselves first? See what DBT skills are, or read more about DBT skills for family members. Learning DBT for your own emotional goals instead? Our Adult DBT Skills Course may be a better fit.
Learn a new interpersonal approach
An alternative, sometimes counter-intuitive approach to relating that's more likely to get you what you want — balancing the relationship with your own self-respect, and avoiding unintentionally reinforcing hurtful behavior.
Improve your own emotional responses
When others engage in hurtful or scary behavior, how do you keep your cool? Learn both short- and long-term strategies to acknowledge and validate your own emotions without letting them control you.
Increase acceptance
Some things can't be changed. Learning to spot, and then accept, what you cannot change helps you get "unstuck" from old patterns and unburdens you from impossible goals that only lead to disappointment.
Course information
- FormatLive, online (Zoom)
- Start dateAugust 26, 2026
- Time12:00–1:00 pm
- Length8 weeks
- Cost$800
$800
Pay in full, or split it over time at checkout.
Our next cohort begins August 26, meeting weekly from 12:00–1:00 pm for 8 weeks. Spots are limited — reserve yours now.
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