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Your reactions feel like they come out of nowhere. You snap, you shut down, or you slide right back into an old habit. Afterward, it's easy to judge yourself or assume that's just who you are. If this describes your reality, you're not alone. That's why we created this free webinar: Breaking the Cycle: A Practical Guide to Changing Your Patterns with DBT.
Hosted by TheraHive Co-Founders Dr. Alicia Smart, PsyD and Dr. Jesse Finkelstein, PsyD (both DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinicians), this live workshop dives into the core mechanics of DBT Chain Analysis and gives you a practical, repeatable process for slowing down your reactions, one link at a time.
Watch the Webinar Recording
Missed the live session or want to revisit the conversation? Watch the full webinar recording below!
What You'll Walk Away With
By the end of this webinar, you'll understand:
- The Myth of "Excusing" Behavior: Why understanding why you did something isn't about letting yourself off the hook—it's the exact key needed to change it.
- The 5 Hidden Links: How to map out Vulnerability Factors, Prompting Events, Internal Links, Problem Behaviors, and Consequences so your reactions stop feeling like a mystery.
- Why Patterns Move So Fast: How thoughts, feelings, and body sensations stack up in seconds, and how to spot them in real-time.
- Real-Time Mapping: Watch a live demonstration of a chain analysis in action and practice mapping one of your own moments using our practical tools.
What to Expect
This 60-minute session includes a 45 min. presentation by Dr. Smart and Dr. Finkelstein, who will walk you through why your patterns move as fast as they do and how a chain analysis slows things down enough to see each link clearly. They'll run a live, real-time demonstration of a chain analysis from start to finish, then guide you through practicing the same process on one of your own moments. Following the presentation, there will also be a 15 min. Q&A with Alicia and Jesse answering questions from live attendees.
Who This Webinar Is For
This session is perfect for you if:
- You've had a reaction that surprised you and want to understand where it actually came from
- You know a few DBT skills but aren't sure how to spot the moment to use them
- You're tired of the same patterns repeating over and over
- You tend to be hard on yourself after a difficult reaction
- You want practical tools you can start using this week
You don't need prior DBT experience. The only requirement is a willingness to understand what's really happening beneath the surface and try something different.
Ready to Go Deeper?
Learning to see and interrupt a chain reaction is a powerful skill and the perfect entry point into deeper DBT learning. If you want to go deeper, we've built an entire mini course with in-depth instructional videos, worksheets, case studies, and more. You'll learn how to trace a behavior through the links that led to it and use Solution Analysis to identify where you could change the direction of the chain.
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Related Resources
- Breaking the Cycle: A Practical Guide to Changing Your Patterns with DBT Mini Course
- Free Interactive Chain Analysis Tool
- How to Do Chain Analysis in DBT Video
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