with Abigail S. Miller, PsyD, NCPsyA
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
On Zoom Only – 1 CE
Participation is FREE
$17 Admin Fee for each CE
Registration closes September 10 at 10:00 AM EST
This informative lecture will focus on an introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a structured therapy that teaches skills to help patients “build a life worth living” through learning to tolerate distress, understand and accept difficult feelings, manage emotions, and improve interpersonal relationships.
Dr. Miller will discuss the key components of DBT, and its structure with a focus on skills groups, the populations for which DBT was developed, and how DBT interfaces with and supports psychodynamic therapy. Dr. Miller will also review the role of DBT assumptions and team agreements, the DBT team approach, and demonstrate a typical DBT skills group session.
Course Objectives – Participants will be able to:
- Identify what DBT is, how it works, and who can benefit from it.
- Develop an understanding of the prescribed structure of DBT.
- Recognize and recognize the key components of DBT.
- Describe the way DBT and Psychodynamic Therapy can provide reciprocal therapeutic benefit.
Meet your speaker:
Abigail S. Miller, Psy.D., NCPsyA, is a clinical psychologist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manhattan and in private practice in New York City. She is a graduate of ACAP and the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Dr. Miller works with patients ranging from adolescents to individuals in their 90s, and with couples.
She performed neuropsychological and psychoeducational evaluations for over 25 years with a focus on dementia, learning disabilities, attentional deficits, and traumatic brain injuries. At the VA, she works with caregivers of individuals with dementia, veterans with cognitive decline, runs psychotherapy groups including a DBT Skills Group, an Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Caregiver Support Group, and a Brain Gains Group.
ACAP is an approved CE provider for:
Art Therapists
Counselors
Marriage and Family Counselors
NJ Psychoanalysts
Social Workers
NY Creative Arts Therapists
Psychologists
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