WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS

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I provide presentations, workshops and trainings on a variety of clinical topics including:

Foundational and advanced trainings on Sage, a couple treatment for BPD
Trauma-informed principles in clinical practice
Integrating treatments for eating disorders and PTSD
Neurobiology of trauma and traumatic memory

Please contact me to discuss arranging a training for your organization.

Sage: A Couple Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder, Self Harm, and Emotion Dysregulation

November 5-6, 2025 (CEUs available)

10:00am - 5:00pm EST, Online (virtual)

Presenters: Dr. Rachel Liebman, PhD and Dr. Skye Fitzpatrick, PhD

Price:

$549 CAD Professional

$349 CAD MD Resident/Postdoc

$249 CAD Student

Registration

Drs. Rachel Liebman, Skye Fitzpatrick, and Candice Monson have spent the last several years developing, refining, and testing Sage– a psychotherapy for couples wherein one member has borderline personality disorder (BPD), experiences suicidal or self-injurious thoughts and behaviours, or emotion dysregulation. Sage is a brief couple psychotherapy informed by Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Conjoint Therapy with three targets: BPD symptoms/emotion dysregulation, relationship functioning, and partner mental health. In this 2-day workshop, the Sage developers, Dr. Rachel Liebman C. Psych. and Dr. Skye Fitzpatrick, C. Psych will introduce Sage and offer clinicians a collection of effective strategies to reduce BPD, suicidality, and relationship distress in couples wherein one member has BPD.

Through a mix of lecture, case material, and audience role plays, workshop participants will learn 1) couple case formulation of processes that maintain BPD and suicidality, 2) dyadic strategies to manage safety, regulate emotions, and interrupt life-threatening behavior and high intensity conflict, and 3) techniques to facilitate interpersonal emotion regulation and effective communication. Participants will come away from this workshop with specific skills to encourage effective emotional expression, communication, and validation, and reduce dyadic emotional avoidance patterns that contribute to emotion dysregulation and conflict maintenance. Special topics including ethical issues and challenging presentations will also be covered, as will issues of equity, diversity and cultural identity with regards to different relationship structures.