Description and Learning Objectives
Description: During the webinar, Dr Lynch will explain how autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the quintessential overcontrolled disorder and how we can use neuroregulatory model to understand ASD's neurodivergent nature.
In addition, Luke Jordan, M.A., an RO Clinical Scholar RO with lived experience of ASD, will share his insights on how ASD impacts his life as well as how he learned how RO DBT skills help him live closer to his valued goals. Dr Lynch and Luke will also address the topic of 'masking' in ASD, and how RO DBT addresses this issue. Plus, RO Senior Clinician Gregory Peebles, MAC, LPC, will discuss a case example of using RO DBT with an ASD client.
Learning Objectives. After attending this webinar, you will be able to:
- Describe the overlap between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Overcontrol (OC)
- Consider how RO DBT addresses the dilemma of neurodiversity, asking for change and the objection to 'masking'
- Discover how living with ASD and applying RO DBT skills have impacted an RO DBT therapist's life
- Use the 'Oh My Gosh' universal signal of openness and humorous vulnerability.
Created/Launched: 9 January 2026
CE Credits:1.75 CE
Content Level: this on-demand webinar is at the intermediate level: it is assumed that you have at least started Level 2 of the RO DBT Blended Learning program or have attended Part 1 of an RO DBT intensive training.
Target Audience: Mental health professionals who are applying RO DBT in their daily practice. We further strongly recommend that learners have at least started Level 2 of the Blended Learning program or have attended Part 1 of the RO DBT Intensive training.
Trainers: Thomas R. Lynch, PhD, Luke Jordan, M.A. and Gregory Peebles, M.A., MAC, LPC (see Biography tab for more information).
Method of Delivery: this is an on-demand webinar. You will need a sufficiently strong internet connection to be able to stream the video.
Accessibility: The webinar has AI-generated English captions. If you have any questions, need help or want to discuss accessibility issues, please contact support@radicallyopen.net
Conflicts of Interest Statement: We don’t receive any direct commercial support for our training companies Radically Open Ltd or RO DBT Online B.V. However, Dr Thomas Lynch, the RO DBT treatment developer and principle RO DBT trainer, receives royalty fees for the RO DBT Textbook and Skills Manual from New Harbinger publishers. He is married to Mrs Erica Smith-Lynch, co-owner and director or Radically Open Ltd.
Instructor Bio's
Thomas R. Lynch, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the School of Psychology at University of Southampton. He was the Director of the Duke Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program at Duke University (USA) from 1998-2007.
Dr Lynch is the treatment developer of Radically Open-Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT)—a new transdiagnostic treatment approach informed by 20+ years of clinical research. He is the author of the RO-DBT treatment manual titled “Radically Open- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Disorders of Overcontrol” as a well as the RO DBT Skills Training Manual (2018; Context Press).
Dr Lynch has been the recipient of multiple large research grants from a range of sources, including the National Institutes of Health, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, the Hartford Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the National Institute for Health Research. He was also the Chief Investigator of a multi- centre randomized controlled trial examining the efficacy and mechanisms of RO-DBT funded by the NIHR- Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme (http://www.reframed.org.uk/; Lynch).
He is a recipient of the John M. Rhoades Psychotherapy Research Endowment and a Beck Institute Scholar. He is recognized internationally as a world-leading expert in difficult-to-treat disorders; such as, personality disorders, chronic depression, and anorexia nervosa and is in frequent demand as a speaker internationally—e.g., Europe, USA, and Canada.
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Luke Jordan is an RO Clinical Scholar. He began his RO training in 2020. In his clinical work, Luke supervises the Older Adult RO DBT service in Manchester England, which is currently the only RO DBT service in the UK exclusively for older adults. His focus is on older adults, although Luke also has a special interest in autism. He is particularly interested in how public health services can work with ‘non-treatment seeking’ populations.
Luke was intensively trained in DBT and is trained in schema therapy. He is also an accredited trainer and supervisor in Structured Clinical Management, and an accredited practitioner of Mentalisation Based Treatment.
Luke has presented at national and international conferences on subjects relating to older adults, autism, and RO DBT. He is actively involved in psychotherapy research, and is the chief investigator for a research trial investigating the acceptability of psychotherapy treatment for older adults. Luke has written for the British Psychological Society on subjects including overcontrol, risk, and the clinical differences that older people present when compared with younger adults.
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Gregory A. Peebles is an anxiety specialist and is Clinical Director of The Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy program at St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute in St. Louis, MO. He received graduate degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and Missouri Baptist University. In addition to his clinical training, he has a research background in Neuroscience and Pharmacology and was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to support his research. He has a profound interest in the integration of salient findings of Neuroscience with that of Evidence Based Clinical Interventions. His clinical experience includes specialized training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD and anxiety-related disorders. He completed a two-year post-graduate fellowship under the supervision of Dr. C. Alec Pollard. In addition, he has specialized training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and has provided family, group, and individual therapy in a community-based crisis stabilization setting. He is intensively trained and supervised in Radical Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy and is a 2020 RO Clinician Scholar Award Recipient. Gregory is a member of the senior Clinician team for RO-DBT and is an approved introductory trainer. He is delighted to help disseminate RO-DBT to other clinicians. In his spare time, he enjoys time outdoors and is an avid pastel and pencil artist.
CE credits: 1.75
Certificate/Letter of Completion: You will be able to download a certificate of completion for 1.75 CE credits provided you have passed the knowledge quiz and have completed the CE evaluation form. If you want your professional license number to be added to your certificate, please add this to your profile via your account management page.
Accreditation: We are accredited by
- the American Psychological Association
- the Approved Continuing Accreditation / Association of Social Work Boards.
- the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work
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