on-Demand CEU Training
Inherited Wounds: Generational Trauma, Complex PTSD and the Development of Borderline Personality Patterns
About this course
Explore Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) through the lens of generational trauma and complex posttraumatic stress
PRE-SALE
This course releases on Nov 13th 2026.
You are purchasing pre-sale access. This is not immediate access to the course. Once the course goes live on Nov 13th, you'll receive an email with instructions on how to access it in our learning platform, Circle. Please note that your 30-day completion window to receive CEU credit will begin on the course release date, not your purchase date.
Pre-Sale Price: $79.99
(Regular price: $89.99 – save $10 when you purchase before launch)
Course Details
Pre-recorded lessons with case studies, quizzes, and a final course evaluation.
This training is eligible for 2 Continuing Education Credits for Psychologists, LMHCs, LCSWs, LMSWs, LMFTs, LCATs, and Art Therapists and must be completed within 30 days of purchase to receive credit.
$89.99 $79.99 – Pre-Sale Price
This training offers a trauma-informed, culturally responsive reexamination of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) through the lens of generational trauma and complex posttraumatic stress. Rather than locating personality pathology solely within the individual, the course situates emotional dysregulation, relational instability, and identity disturbance within inherited patterns of attachment disruption, chronic invalidation, and systemic stress. Participants will explore how historical trauma, racism, marginalization, and identity-based invalidation shape nervous system development and relational survival strategies across generations—often manifesting clinically as complex PTSD and borderline personality patterns. Particular attention is given to how BIPOC and LGBTQ clients are disproportionately misdiagnosed, under-contextualized, or pathologized when sociocultural and intergenerational factors are overlooked. Grounded in contemporary trauma research, attachment theory, and DBT-informed practice, this training emphasizes diagnostic humility, anti-pathologizing frameworks, and practical clinical interventions. Clinicians will leave with tools to more accurately assess, conceptualize, and treat high-conflict and high-distress presentations while reducing stigma, improving therapeutic alliance, and supporting sustainable, ethical care.
Learning Objectives
Describe how generational trauma and chronic relational stress contribute to the development of complex PTSD and borderline personality patterns.
Apply DBT-informed, culturally responsive clinical strategies that address emotional dysregulation and relational instability without reinforcing stigma or clinician burnout.
Differentiate Borderline Personality Disorder from trauma-based adaptations, particularly in clients with histories of systemic oppression, identity-based invalidation, and intergenerational harm.
Meet Your Instructor
Eboni Webb, PsyD, HSP
Dr. Webb, began her clinical work as assistant clinical director and program director at Mental Health Systems, PC (MHS), one of the largest providers of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in the United States. At MHS, Dr. Webb developed two specialized DBT treatment programs for clients with developmental disabilities and borderline-intellectual functioning. She is comprehensively certified in DBT (PESI/Evergreen Institute and Michael Maslar of Northwestern University), MBSR, and is an advanced certified practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Dr. Webb is a highly rated international trainer in DBT and is a certified trainer of DBT
Continuing Education Provider Information
Kenya Crawford, LMHC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0269. Kenya Crawford, LMHC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. #SW-0736. Kenya Crawford, LMHC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0151. Kenya Crawford, LMHC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0132.
Kenya Crawford has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7470. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Kenya Crawford is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Cultivating Healers is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Cultivating Healers maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Kenya Crawford, LMHC is recognized by the Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB) as an Authorized Continuing Education Provider for art therapists. Provider ID: 63628089.
