Masters in Practice: Real Skills for Real Life, DBT for Everyday Living w/ Dr. Jesse Finkelstein

Masters in Practice: Real Skills for Real Life, DBT for Everyday Living w/ Dr. Jesse Finkelstein

April 17, 2026 · 60 min

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The episode discusses how DBT can be applied in real-life situations and its effectiveness across various diagnoses.

What if the problem isn’t that your clients don’t have the right tools—but that the tools don’t feel usable in real life? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Jesse Finkelstein to unpack how DBT moves beyond worksheets and into everyday decision-making. We break down what DBT actually is, why it works across diagnoses, and how its core ideas—like holding two truths at once—can shift the way clinicians think about change. You’ll hear how skills like mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotio...

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