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Clinician Mentorship Program

Eligibility: In order to be eligible to be a DBT-LBC™ Mentor,  you must be a DBT-LBC™ Certified Clinician. To be a mentee, you can be at any point in the certification process from consideration, application, examination or video submission. To apply to be a mentor or a mentee, you can submit your interest here.

By design, DBT- LBC™ does not offer clinical consultation; therefore, the mentorship program is not designed to function in a clinical capacity, to include DBT Adherence Coding, or anything related to the clinical case presented for video coding. Anything that would fall within a clinical supervision role is outside of the program’s scope.

Scope of Mentoring Relationship

The mentoring relationship can include support in the following areas:

Session recording anxiety

General test preparation

Helping the mentee consider ways to talk to their client about being recorded

Structuring and accountability

Overall cheerleading through the process

Other non-clinical support agreed upon between the mentor and mentee

Purpose:

Contribute to the DBT community by fostering a supportive and collaborative community and increasing accessibility and representation within DBT-LBC™ Certified Clinicians.

Goals:

The Mentorship Program is designed to help address some of the non-clinical/non-case specific barriers that have been identified when considering DBT-LBC™ certification and to support a clinician’s personal and professional growth.

Matching Process:

Thoughtful pairing of mentors and mentees is based on factors such as gender, identity, race and ethnicity, areas of expressed interest, populations served and geographic locations (time zones) based on availability.

Structured Meetings:

There will be no identified requirements set by DBT-LBC™ regarding scheduled meetings. However, we recommend starting with at least a monthly meeting to start and further assess what will work best with the mentor/mentee relationship. All meetings will be set and agreed upon by both mentor and mentee and will not be tracked or monitored by DBT-LBC™.

Goal Setting:

Specific goals will be discussed by the mentor and mentee and agreed upon by both parties.

Resource Sharing:

Mentors will share their knowledge and experience with the certification process to help mentees navigate areas of the process that have been deemed challenging.

This program is voluntary with no money exchanged. Anything provided outside the scope of what has been defined is not affiliated with DBT-LBC™.

If you are interested in participating in the Mentorship Program, you can submit your request here.

If you have any additional questions, please email us at [email protected].

Thank you for joining us in reducing barriers to DBT-LBC™ Certification.