Free CE Training With Bestselling Author Dr. Diane Gehart
The Decision Door Method
Therapeutic Interventions for Clients Facing Life's Most Difficult Decisions
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The Decision Door Method:
Therapeutic Interventions for Clients Facing Life's Most Difficult Decisions
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When clients feel paralyzed by impossible choices, traditional therapy approaches often fall short. The Decision Door Method fills this gap with a structured, evidence-informed framework that transforms decision paralysis into empowered action. Drawing from existential, cognitive, and Buddhist psychology, this method helps clients navigate their most challenging crossroads—whether they're contemplating leaving an unhealthy relationship, confronting an abuser, switching careers, or making any major life transition. Rather than give advice or mirror back their conflicting emotions, you'll learn to facilitate a specific process that builds their capacity for clear thinking, reduces decision-related anxiety, and strengthens their sense of personal agency. The result? Clients who move from "stuck" to confident, taking their next steps with clarity and inner peace.
1.5 Hours of Free CE
Program Goal and Objectives
Program Overarching Goal: By the end of this program, participants will be able to use the Decision Door Method to help clients make difficult decisions.
Specific Learning Objectives: At the end of this training:
1. Participants will be able to help clients identify 2 or more possibilities when faced with a dilemma.
2. Participants will be able to assess the 3-key elements of each possible life option.
3. Participants will be able to make life decisions based on 2 key factors that maximize long-term mental health and wellbeing.
CE Approval: This course has been approved for 1.5 hours of continuing education by the NBCC. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences
Cost: CEs are FREE until February 4, 2025. Afterward, you must purchase the course for $39.
Refund Policy: N/A
Dr. Diane Gehart
An award-winning author, educator, and TEDx speaker, Dr. Diane Gehart has trained thousands of licensed mental health professionals over the past 30 years, translating complex clinical theories into easily understood principles and practices.
She is the Founder of the Therapy that Works Institute, pioneering a Unifying Framework for Psychotherapy, and is Professor Emerita at California State University, Northridge.
Her authored works include Theory and Treatment Planning in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Mastering Competencies in Family Therapy, Mindfulness and Acceptance in Couple and Family Therapy, and Mindfulness for Chocolate Lovers: A Lighthearted Way to Stress Less and Savor More Each Day and she has co-edited two volumes on Collaborative-Dialogic Practices: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference Across Cultures and Contexts with Harlene Anderson.
She maintains a private practice in Agoura Hills, California and is a licensed mental health provider in Hawai’i, Texas, and Oregon.
