GreenWood Mentors Ltd provides expert training for psychologists, psychiatrists, CBT therapists, mental health nurses, social workers, and other professionals delivering therapy and mental health services. Our team consists of highly experienced trainers with in-depth knowledge of clinical practice, management, and organisational systems both inside and outside the NHS.We specialise in integrating Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT). Our training also covers trauma work, personality-level interventions, dissociation, and neurodiversity, including ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and their interactions with mental health. We also offer expertise in working with children, young people, and families.
In addition to occasional online events, we create bespoke training programs tailored to your organisation’s specific needs, ensuring practical and clinically relevant learning.
Training we offer
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptable towards accreditation with BABCP and BACP
- Integrates CBT and third wave approaches (ACT, DBT, CFT)
- Suitable across a range of clinical presentations
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) practitioner training
Introduction to DBT: (timings range from 2 hours online to half day or one day in person)
Putting DBT into your practice: (one or two days) for those who want to integrate DBT insights and strategies into their regular practice.
DBT knowledge and skills: (three or four days) covers all the DBT skills and strategies and modes of delivery including phone coaching, crisis calls and consult.
BPS Quality Mark DBT Practitioner Training
We offer BPS Quality Mark DBT practitioner training for organisations and groups of qualified mental health professionals. Training is suitable for NHS trusts, healthcare teams, social services and those in independent practice.
Training structure
- Online teaching: 9 days delivered in two modules, covering the DBT model, biosocial theory, assessment and treatment planning, behavioural analysis, dialectical strategies and mindfulness. *you can also use the above courses as building blocks towards these 9 days*
- Supervised practice: 7-month period with the support of an experienced clinician, managing your DBT case
- Skills group teaching: option to jointly facilitate an 8-week skills group module (mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness), supervised by a senior clinician; one 2-hour session per week for 8 weeks; shorter/equivalent experience accepted
- Casebook submission and knowledge exam with personalised feedback and supervision throughout
Successful completion leads to a DBT practitioner certificate (BPS approved).
Delivery
Live online, tailored to your organisation’s availability; groups of 5–15 participants
Trainers
Dr Gill Green, Catherine Parker and Marie Wassberg are experienced DBT trainers and practitioners with many years of clinical and supervisory practice
Other DBT training (adapted for those without DBT skills and also versions for established DBT teams, advanced training)
Working with addiction
- Focused training for professionals supporting clients with substance misuse and behavioural addictions
Working with self-harm and suicidal behaviours
- Assessment and intervention strategies
- Risk formulation and safety planning
- Skills to support engagement and reduce risk
Working with eating disorders
- Identification and assessment of eating disorders
- Integrative DBT and CBT approach to treatment
- Adaptations for complex or comorbid presentations
Dissociation and dissociative disorders training
Introduction to dissociation (2 hours online, half-day, or one-day in person)
Working with dissociation (2 days) — identifying and formulating dissociation as part of regular practice
Dissociative disorders and DID (4 days) — assessment and treatment of depersonalisation disorder, somatisation (conversion) disorder, fugue states, functional neurological disorder (FND) and more
Dissociation disorders certificate (6 days) — incorporates both advanced courses above
Presentations for which we offer training (examples)
Dissociative disorders: depersonalisation disorder (DPD), somatisation (conversion) disorder, fugue states, functional neurological disorder (FND)
Dissociative identity disorder: assessing, formulating, and intervening effectively
Trauma-related disorders: borderline personality disorder (emotionally unstable personality disorder), PTSD, complex PTSD
Neurodiversity: ADHD/autism/ASD: how neurodivergent people can be more vulnerable to mental health issues (e.g. Anxiety, relationship difficulties); how our mental health systems can make life difficult and how to adapt services for neurodivergent people
General clinical training
Integrating CBT+ third wave approaches useful across clinical practice
Working with parts — a CBT+ rooted approach to “parts work” (e.g. Chair work, schema mode work, using the D-ISS scale
Mentoring and coaching training
- Clinically informed yet organisationally/systemically oriented
- Designed according to your team’s needs
- Supports individuals and management teams
Research help and training
- Clinical supervision for clinical doctorate and cbt therapy training programmes
- Support to develop and conduct service-based research
- Experience of enabling NGOs to integrate research, leading to improved interventions, stronger international profile, and increased funding
Accreditation
We are accredited by leading professional bodies, ensuring high standards in training and clinical practice:
