The Revolving Door Stops Here

Strategies for Autistic Teens in Crisis

1 NBCC CE • $60

On Demand Workshop with Katie K May, LPC, DBT-LBC

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About this course:

This training bridges the gap between misdiagnosis and meaningful connection for autistic teens. Rooted in the strategies of DBT and the themes of You’re on Fire, It’s Fine, this course equips therapists to support teens and their caregivers through cycles of self-harm, meltdowns, and hospitalization. You'll learn how to teach emotion regulation and communication skills while guiding parents toward radical acceptance, attunement, and actionable change—so families can finally stop living in crisis and start building lives worth living.

What’s Included:

1-Hour Recorded Workshop
Slides + Support Resources
1 NBCC CE

Price: $60

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Objectives
Participants will be able to…

  • Apply the Wheel of Emotion Dysregulation to reframe client behaviors as expressions of emotional overwhelm, in order to enhance clinical interpretation and inform intervention planning.

  • Apply behavior chain analysis to identify emotional vulnerabilities and neurobiological sensitivities in autistic teens.

  • Analyze caregiver interactions using the The Caregiver Capacity Connection Map and River Metaphor to understand reinforcement patterns.

  • Demonstrate use of the 3x3 Tool to uncover patterns with clients and intolerable emotions that drive self-destructive behavior.

  • Integrate somatic-based interventions like the Movie Theater Exercise to support bottom-up emotional processing.

Did you know?

Many teen safety plans fail because they don’t take into account what’s happening around the teen or inside the people trying to support them.

The same behavior can come from completely different emotions. The 3x3 tool helps you decode the pattern before you respond.

The behavior isn’t the problem. It’s the messenger. If you shut it down, you miss the message.

You may think you’re helping by trying to fix things fast, but you might actually be repeating the very pattern that’s been hurting them.

If you don’t assess from the body up, you’ll stay stuck intellectualizing the crisis instead of transforming it.

Meet the Instructor

Katie K. May, LPC, DBT-LBC

Katie is a licensed therapist, national speaker, and best-selling author of You’re on Fire, It’s Fine. She is the founder of Creative Healing, a group practice that serves teens and their families with trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming DBT care. Katie is a Linehan Board Certified DBT Clinician and a passionate advocate for helping professionals move beyond behavior management into deep, somatic, and relational healing work. Learn more at www.creativehealingphilly.com/katiekmay