WHEN: Friday, June 20th, 2025. 9:00am – 5:00pm with a 1-hour lunch break and two 15-minute breaks.

In-person at CCEBT’s Downtown office (25 E Washington St, Conference Room, Chicago, IL 60622) and virtual option.  

PRICING:
Licensed Clinicians $200, Student/Trainee rate $150
*In-person registration fee includes free lunch, snacks/coffee, and a printed copy of the slides

While this training is being offered in a virtual format to increase accessibility for attendees, in-person attendance is strongly recommended for those who are able, given the interactive nature of the training. This training will include experiential learning opportunities, including role plays and live demonstrations. While all experiential learning activities will be available for virtual attendees, in-person attendance allows for a deeper learning opportunity.
About the Training: 6.5 CE credits available for LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, and Psychologists

Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) is a treatment for patients who suffer from emotional and behavioral over-control. Some clients lack emotional control and need interventions designed to enhance emotional and behavioral control; others, for whom RO DBT is designed, require interventions designed to relax rigid or inflexible control. RO DBT has been researched over the past 25+ years for patients with difficult to treat mental health conditions, including chronic depression and anorexia nervosa. Research results suggest that it is effective in these and other hard-to-treat groups, such as treatment resistant anxiety and obsessive compulsive personality disorder. The aim of this interactive introductory training is to help clinicians assess whether they have clients who are overcontrolled and may benefit from RO DBT, as well as to help clinicians determine whether they would like to become trained in RO DBT.

At the end of this training attendees will be able to:

• Explain a new biosocial theory for over-control
• Describe shared features between anorexia nervosa and over-control
• Describe the RO DBT treatment structure
• Describe new RO DBT treatment strategies designed to enhance willingness for self-inquiry and flexible responding
• Describe the RO DBT treatment hierarchy
• Describe a novel treatment mechanism positing open expression = trust = social connectedness
• List examples of strategies designed to improve pro-social cooperative signaling via activation of the parasympathetic nervous system’s social-safety system

 About the Trainer:

Dr. Julianna Gorder is a licensed clinical psychologist who has extensive experience providing evidence-based treatment for eating disorders to individuals of all ages. She is the Director of Clinical Innovation at the Chicago Center for Evidence Based Treatment and is licensed to practice in both Illinois and California. Julianna is particularly passionate about understanding the role of temperament in complex, comorbid eating disorder presentations, and using temperament-informed treatment approaches to support individuals and their loved ones throughout the recovery process. Julianna is currently an accredited RO DBT trainer and senior clinician, receiving ongoing mentorship from the treatment developer, Dr. Thomas Lynch, and has provided consultation and training in RO DBT to clinicians both nationally and internationally.

Julianna earned her BA in Psychology from the University of St. Thomas and her PsyD in Clinical Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. After receiving her doctorate in 2018, Julianna completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center (UCSD EDC) and worked as a staff psychologist at UCSD EDC until 2022, during which time she developed and managed an RO DBT track within the adult PHP and IOP programs. From 2022 to 2024, Julianna was a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California (USC), where she worked within the Eating Disorders Program, and also served as a member of the departmental Suicide Prevention Task Force. Julianna has extensive training in Family Based Treatment (FBT), standard Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD, and has received intensive training in both the adult and adolescent adaptations of Temperament Based Treatment with Support (TBT-S) for Anorexia Nervosa. When she is not working, Julianna enjoys traveling and spending time with her friends, family, and two rescue cats, Lily and Luna.

Questions? Please email our Clinic Coordinator at claire.zawa@ccebt.com