About Your Trainer

Jennifer Eaton, M.S., LMHC
is the CEO of Dialectical Training Institute, established in 2025.

Ms. Eaton has provided expert training and consultation to agencies and schools for over 20 years with a passion for assisting others in building clinical skills to fidelity. 

She has assisted in opening numerous DBT specialized residential programs. She developed an all virtual DBT outpatient program and assisted the agency in obtaining program certification, by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification.

Ms. Eaton maintains a private practice, Dialectical and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, where she mainly provides Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She has over 25 years of experience as a therapist working with adults, adolescents, families, and leads a DBT skills training group for young adults. She is a certified DBT clinician approved by the Linehan-Board of Certification.

DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™

Ms. Eaton was intensively trained in DBT by Dr. Charles Swenson & the late Dr. Cindy Sanderson in 2001. She completed two Advanced Intensive Trainings, one of which was under Dr. Marsha Linehan, the developer of DBT.  She holds a Master of Science degree in clinical psychology and maintains a Massachusetts license in mental health counseling.

What We Do at

Dialectical Behavior Institute

See our variety of highly-effective DBT learning experiences, such as:

DBT Training & Consultation

for Agencies

Individually tailored packages to increase success in treatment delivery.

DBT Training & Consultation

for Schools

Trainings that support schools in providing social-emotional learning to all educational levels.

DBT Training & Consultation

for clinicians

Comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) training for clinicians.

Dialectical Training Institute provides expert clinical training and consultation in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and other clinical topics for mental health professionals both virtually and in-person nationwide.