Sashbear Expert Education - The Dialectics of Emotion Regulation with Dr. Christine Dunkley

Please join us for our August Expert Education Series. Dr. Christine Dunkley will introduce the DBT emotion regulation theory and explain how it helps in everyday life, why emotions get too big, and how to increase or decrease their intensity.

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Christine Dunkley has been with the British Isles DBT Training team since 2006 and is now a consultant trainer and Director of Applied Research and Training. 

She started her social work degree in 1978 and worked in the NHS as a medical social worker and psychological therapist for 30 years until she retired in 2012. During her career, she undertook training in counselling and DBT. She did a doctorate in clinical practice at the University of Southampton School of Health Sciences, studying emotional pain communication from suicidal patients. 

Christine was the first chair of the Society for DBT of the UK and Ireland in 2012. She received a society Fellowship in 2016 and is a Vice President. Christine has taught over 50 DBT intensive trainings and hundreds of workshops, making her one of the most prolific DBT trainers internationally. She has taught audiences worldwide and at home, writing the component for the NHS training for Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners. She is well known for her top tips and has 19 thousand followers on LinkedIn, making her a popular podcast guest. 

She has over 30 published items, including the books Teaching Clients to Use Mindfulness Skills Dunkley C, and Stanton, M. Routledge 2013, and Regulating Emotion the DBT Way. Dunkley C. Routledge 2020. Her paper Hearing the Suicidal Patient’s Emotional Pain. Dunkley et al., Crisis 2018 topped the publisher’s ‘most read’ chart for six months.