Free CE Training
With Bestselling Author Dr. Diane Gehart
The Decision Door Method
Therapeutic Interventions for Clients Facing Life's Most Difficult Decisions
The Decision Door Method:
Therapeutic Interventions for Clients Facing Life's Most Difficult Decisions
Free Zoom Webinar
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
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Groundbreaking Mixed-Reality CE Training
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After each free training session, you have the option to join Dr. Gehart for a live session with a client using mixed-reality simulation. See how to use the Decision Door Method in action!
What is Mixed-Reality Client Simulation?
Step into the future of clinical education with Dr. Diane Gehart as your virtual co-therapist in cutting-edge mixed-reality training. Through hands-on, interactive scenarios and real-time team supervision, you'll develop advanced therapeutic skills in a dynamic learning environment. This isn't passive education—it's active skill-building that gives you practical tools and confidence that traditional continuing education simply can't match.
Learn to Use the Decision Door Method with Clients
Watch the Decision Door Method come alive as you and your team work side-by-side with Dr. Gehart with two clients facing impossible choices:
- Session 1: A parent torn between staying in an unhappy marriage for the children or pursuing personal happiness
- Session 2: A breadwinner trapped between financial security and personal fulfillment in a soul-crushing career
- Session 3: A soon-to-be bride questioning the decision to marry.
One registration gives you access to all three live sessions plus the recordings. Attend live for real-time learning or watch the replays at your convenience—either way, you'll witness therapeutic breakthroughs that transform how you approach your most challenging cases.
When: Immediately following each Decision Door Method Workshop
Program Goal and Objectives
Program Overarching Goal: By the end of this program, participants will be able to skillfully apply 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 use a 2-part psychoeducational process to start the Decision Door conversation with clients.
2. Participants will be able to facilitate a process to identify at least 3 options for each dilemma.
3. Participants will be able to help clients identify the 3 key components for each option to make informed decisions.
CE Approval: This course has been approved for 2 hours of continuing education by the NBCC. Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences
Cost: $29--Regularly $69 for single session or $207 for 3 sessions.
Refund Policy: No refunds. All students will have access to the replay for one year.
Access: Access to replay and CEs for both courses for one year.
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.
Discovering the Path Forward When Every Door Seems Shut
FREE 1.5 Hour Workshop
Choose from 3 Live Online Events
Sunday, Sept 7: 9:00-10:30 am Pacific | 12:00-1:30 Eastern | 16:00-17:30 UTC
Friday, Sept 12: 9:00-10:30 am Pacific | 12:00-1:30 Eastern | 16:00-17:30 UTC
Sunday, Sept 14: 2:00-3:30 pm Pacific | 5:00-6:30 pm Eastern | 21:00-23:30 UTC | 7:00 am Sydney next day
or Choose to Watch the Replay from Sept 12-16, 2025
Add V.I.P. Option
Join a Live Client Simulation Session: 2 Hours of CE
Sunday, Sept 7: 11:00-1:00 pm Pacific | 2:00-4:00 pm Eastern | 18:00-20:00 UTC
Friday, Sept 12: 11:00-1:00 pm Pacific | 2:00-4:00 pm Eastern | 18:00-20:00 UTC
Sunday, Sept 14: 4:00-6:00 pm Pacific | 7:00-9:00 pm Eastern | 23:00-01:00 UTC | 9:00-11:00 am Sydney next day
Course Details
Continuing Education Approval
Therapy that Works Institute programs are offered for NBCC credit (NBCC ACEP No. 7125). Additionally, the Therapy that Works Institute (Provider #1000141) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs.
Therapy that Works Institute maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
Course CE certificates will be awarded via email within 24 hours upon completion of all course modules, course quiz, and course evaluation.
Audience: This course is intended for both new and experience mental health clinicians, including counselors, family therapists, and social workers.
Accommodations/Grievances: Questions for accommodations and/or grievances related to the course should be directed to [email protected]. These communications will be responded to within 2 working days.
Diversity Policy: The instructor and all participants agree to respect and not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program, or activity based on gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Participants whose behavior is disruptive for any reason may be removed from the program/course without receiving CE credit.
Refunds: Because this is a digital product, all purchases are final.
