Response Ability: Using Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) to Heal PTSD, Trauma, and Personality Disorders

CE Hours 1

About this live event

Healing from complex trauma and personality disorders requires more than symptom management. It requires the restoration of the patient’s capacity to "mentalize". Mentalization helps clients make sense of their own and others' internal states, restoring reflection, agency and emotional regulation. In this session of Guidelight’s Continuing Education series, we explore the MBT framework. Participants will gain practical, evidence-based tools to help clients move from reflexive reactions to reflective, intentional actions. Sharpen your clinical response to reflexive states, helping clients bridge the gap between reactive emotional modes and genuine, reflective insight and change.

Learning Objectives

Apply the philosophy of response-ability by shifting from reactive survival to reflective agency in the face of triggers.
Identify pre-mentalizing modes, including Psychic Equivalence (certainty), Teleological thinking (demands for action), and Pretend Mode (intellectualization).
Utilize a “not-knowing” stance to maintain curiosity and a non-judgmental position that fosters client self-discovery.
Utilize the MBT compass by balancing self vs. other and cognitive vs. affective mentalizing in live sessions.
Apply the “Stop, Listen, Look” intervention to pause and explore breaks in mentalizing during high-conflict moments.

Learning Levels

Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced

Target Audience

This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT's.

Agenda

Welcome & Introduction

Overview of session objectives
Framing “Response-Ability” and the role of MBT

Module 1: The Philosophy of Response-Ability

What is mentalizing?
From reflexive reaction to reflective action
Neurobiology of stress and mentalizing breakdown
Role of attachment in developing reflective capacity

Module 2: Trauma and the Collapse of Meaning

How trauma disrupts mentalizing
Understanding pre-mentalizing modes:
Psychic Equivalence
Teleological Mode
Pretend Mode
Epistemic mistrust and barriers to learning

Module 3: The MBT Treatment Model

Therapist stance: “Not-Knowing”
Core aim of MBT (present-focused work)
The four dimensions of mentalizing
Key interventions:
Mentalizing loop
Stop, Listen, Look
Mentalizing challenge
Validation + mentalizing balance

Module 4: Practical Application & Case Examples

Case study: Borderline Personality Disorder
Case study: Complex PTSD
Building epistemic trust in treatment
Measuring clinical progress and outcomes

Integration, Q&A, and Closing

Therapist self-awareness and maintaining a mentalizing stance
Key takeaways and clinical application
Audience Q&A

Live event Instructor(s)

Adam Henderson, MD

Staff Psychiatrist, McLean Hospital

Adam Henderson, MD is a double board-certified adult psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist with expertise in trauma, PTSD, personality disorders, and Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT). He serves as an attending psychiatrist at McLean Hospital’s Gunderson Intensive Outpatient Program and is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Henderson completed his training at Brown University and the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program, where he served as outpatient chief resident, and pursued additional training in psychoanalysis. His clinical work focuses on delivering evidence-based, mentalization-informed care across individual, family, and group settings.

He is the founder of learnMBT.com, a free educational platform dedicated to expanding access to MBT training for clinicians, and maintains a private practice providing therapy and medication management. Dr. Henderson is also committed to advancing innovative, outcomes-driven models of care that improve access and quality in mental health treatment.

Disclosure

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Joint Accreditation (JA)

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Disability Accommodation

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Technology

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Response Ability: Using Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) to Heal PTSD, Trauma, and Personality Disorders

About this live event

Learning Objectives

Learning Levels

Target Audience

Agenda

Live event Instructor(s)

Disclosure

CE Process Info

Joint Accreditation (JA)

American Psychological Association (APA)

New York Education Department's State Board for Social Work (NYEDSW)

New York Education Department Board of Creative Arts Therapy (NYSEDCAT)

New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NYSEDLMHC)

New York Education Department Board for Licensed Psychoanalysts (NYSEDLP)

New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology (NYEDPSY)

New York Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy (NYEDMFT)

Disability Accommodation

Technology

Where can I find my Attendee Dashboard link?

CELS Grievance Policy

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