The Decision Door Method

Therapeutic Interventions for Clients Facing Life's Most Difficult Decisions

with Dr. Diane Gehart

1.25 Hours of CE

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. 

Instructor: 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.

Program Goal and Objectives

Program Overarching Goal: By the end of this program, participants will understand how the Decision Door Method can help clients make difficult life decisions.

Specific Learning Objectives: At the end of this training:

1. Participants will be able to outline a 3-step process to help clients navigate difficult decisions.
2. Participants will know the 3 elements to assess when evaluating options when making a decision.
3. Participants will be able to facilitate a 3-step process that increases client agency in the most difficult of circumstances.

CE Approval: This course has been approved for 1.25 hours of continuing education by the NBCC. Course meets the qualifications for 1.25 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. 

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. 

Access: 2 years access to video, handouts, and earning CEs.

Cost: $19

Refund Policy: No refunds

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.