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DBT: The Brain-Body Connection
Fri, Dec 12
|The Birch Center
Discover how bringing the body into the room can transform your DBT work. This workshop explores how somatic awareness and regulation enhance core DBT practices—deepening mindfulness, emotion processing, and behavior change. Join Maggie Nail, MSW, LCSWA, LCASA to learn more.
Time & Location
Dec 12, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
The Birch Center, 3326 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd Building A, Suite 230, Durham, NC 27707, USA
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About the event
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is widely recognized as a top-down, cognitive-behavioral treatment model. However, this conceptualization often overlooks a vital component of DBT’s effectiveness: the integration of the body. Incorporating somatic awareness and regulation can enhance behavioral chain analysis, skills acquisition, mindfulness practice, and emotion processing. This session will explore how to remain grounded in evidence-based DBT strategies that emphasize the brain–body connection. Join us on Friday, December 12th, from 12:00PM–1:30PM to learn how integrating the body can strengthen DBT practice.
Maggie Nail has spent over six years supporting adolescents, adults, and families in home-based, hospital, and behavioral health urgent care settings. With a background in clinical research, Maggie brings both curiosity and compassion to their work as a Clinical Social Worker Associate and Addiction Specialist Associate. They are intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and currently lead DBT skills groups for teens and adults, as well as offer…
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In-Person
Join us at The Birch Center. Light lunch provided.
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Live Online
Join us Live Online via Zoom for this workshop.
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