Personality Disorders Counseling Training Program

Personality-disordered presentations can leave even experienced clinicians feeling frustrated, stuck, and disheartened—especially when the literature feels fragmented and disorganized, and myths about “untreatable” clients creep into the room.

This 12-hour certificate program cuts through that fog with a clear, evidence-informed framework for assessing, conceptualizing, and treating DSM-5 personality disorders with more structure, confidence, and hope.

If you’ve wanted a practical, comprehensive way to work with these diagnoses—without falling into common therapeutic traps—this training offers a welcoming path forward, with concrete strategies you can apply across a wide range of personality presentations.

$330 for 2 CE courses · 12 CE hours · save up to $64 today

Key Takeaways

• Clearer case conceptualization: Learn how to get to the core of personality pathology and organize complex presentations into a workable clinical map.
• More effective engagement and management: Identify common pitfalls and therapeutic traps—and apply strategies that reduce stuckness and escalation in-session.
• A practical integrated treatment foundation: Build a treatment-informed framework using an integrated DBT/CBT/Schema-Focused model that supports deeper work beyond rapport and stabilization.

Why this course?

• Hope + evidence-informed perspective: Personality Disorders can be treated, and this program is built to help clinicians practice from that reality instead of outdated assumptions.
• A uniquely integrated, clinician-centered approach: You’ll learn an integrated DBT/CBT/Schema Therapy framework designed to bring order to a topic that often feels fragmented and disorganized.
• Training aligned with TCI’s standards: Telehealth Certification Institute is committed to excellence, integrity, and practical growth—so you leave with strategies you can use immediately to make your work easier and more effective.

Learning Objectives:

After participating in Assessment and Management of Personality Disorders: Understanding the Hidden Agenda participants will be able to:

• Analyze the diagnostic criteria and explain key differential diagnosis considerations for each of the 10 DSM 5 personality disorders.
• Identify etiological and epidemiological factors associated with each.
• List the 5 characteristics that differentiate PDs from other psychological conditions.
• Assess the treatability of each of the 10 personality disorders.
• Describe the 18 early maladaptive schemas driving target behaviors, including historical, cultural, and other environmental risk factors influencing them.
• Plan management strategies for all 10 DSM 5 personality disorders.

After participating in Evidence-Based Treatments for Personality Disorders participants will be able to:

• Discuss 8 evidence-based treatments for personality disorders.
• Describe 5 characteristics unique to treating these diagnoses effectively.
• Explain 18 early maladaptive schemas driving target behaviors, including historical, cultural, and other environmental risk factors influencing them.
• Design case conceptualization diagrams to drive treatment planning, agenda setting, and documentation.
• Describe 3 schema modes in narcissism and design mode work strategies. 
• Compare the 2 types of relapse prevention sessions with the typical course of care sessions.

By the end of this certificate program, you’ll have a more comprehensive, empowering approach to assess, conceptualize, and treat a population that often leaves clinicians feeling depleted. If you’re ready for clearer clinical direction—and a renewed sense that meaningful change is possible—this training is designed to support you in that next step.