Keynotes
Plenary and conference addresses on mentalization, MBT, and reflective practice — calibrated to your audience and running time.
Advisory · Speaking & Training
National speaker& educator.
Kyle delivers keynotes, workshops, and professional trainings on mentalization-based treatment, reflective practice, and complex clinical work — for conferences, treatment teams, and organizations.
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Attended
A national multidisciplinary training for clinicians seeking to integrate mentalization into complex clinical practice.
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Formats
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Workshops
Half- and full-day interactive sessions that move a team from concept to clinical application, with case material and live practice.
Professional Education
Structured professional development for clinical teams building mentalization-informed capacity. Continuing-education credit may be available by arrangement.
Recent engagements have served clinicians in private practice, schools, treatment centers, hospitals, family-service organizations, group practices, and multidisciplinary teams.
What Kyle covers
Speaking Topics
Kyle's presentations translate mentalization-based theory into practical ways of understanding clinical impasse, emotional intensity, identity, risk, and complex systems of care.
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MBT Fundamentals
Grounding clinicians in the core skills of mentalization-based treatment.
MBT for Youth
Equipping clinicians to adapt MBT for children and adolescents.
Suicidal & Self-Injurious Youth
Preparing clinicians to intervene with MBT during acute risk.
AMBIT for Complex Systems
Helping multidisciplinary teams maintain shared thinking under pressure.
LGBTQIA+ Youth Mental Health
Strengthening identity-affirming, reflective clinical practice.
Gender Dysphoria & Mentalizing
Equipping clinicians with reflective frameworks for gender-affirming care.
Masculinity & Therapy
Preparing clinicians to engage men more effectively in therapy.
Professional Education
Helping organizations build CE-eligible education around qualifying programs.
From the lectern
Helping clinicians remain curious when the work becomes most difficult.
Selected work
Presentations
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Selected Works
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Presentations
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Journal Records
2025
1 presentation
Presentation · September 2025
Strengthening Reflective Capacity: A Practical Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment
EAPA NY Chapter
An in-depth exploration of Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT), an evidence-based approach that enhances reflective capacity and fosters deeper therapeutic connections. Introduces the essential components of MBT, tracing the development of mentalization from infancy through adulthood.
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Presentation · June 2023
A Closer Look at Perceived Rejection: The Impact of Impaired Mentalizing in Gender-Diverse Youth
Examines how impaired mentalizing can shape experiences of perceived rejection among gender-diverse youth, and offers a reflective framework for clinical response.
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2 presentations
Presentation · May 2022
Enhancing Affective and Reflective Functioning of LGBTQIA+ Youth
Mentalization-based treatment for children and adolescents as an evidence-based approach to helping suicidal thoughts/feelings and self-injurious behaviors. A modern approach to automatic and controlled thoughts, self and other perspectives, affect and cognitive processes, and internal and external information gathering.
View presentationPresentation · April 2022
Therapeutically Enhancing Masculinity: Approaching Men Through a Positive Lens of Masculine Traits
Addresses the intersectionality associated with masculinity and personhood that impacts expression through perceived negative emotional context. Explores how our understanding of masculinity and femininity begins to form in early development.
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Presentation · October 2021
The Benefits of Mentalizing in The LGBTQIA+ Community
Examines how a mentalizing stance can support clinical work with the LGBTQIA+ community, and offers a reflective framework for responding to experiences of rejection and minority stress.
View presentationPresentation · May 2021
Gender Dysphoria and Mentalization Based Treatment
Discussion regarding the impact of gender dysphoria on children, adolescents, and young adults in academic settings. Covers diagnostic criteria, personal biases, suicidal rates, and how mentalization-based treatment can provide support.
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Basic Concepts in Mentalizing Therapy With Adolescents With Emerging Personality Disorders and Self-Harming Behaviors
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Co-authored with Laurel L. Williams, Owen S. Muir, Efrain Bleiberg, Carlene MacMillan, Chris Grimes, Carl Fleisher
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Fundamentals in Mentalization-Based Treatment for Suicidal and Self-Injurious Youth
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Co-authored with Laurel L. Williams, Carlene MacMillan, Owen S. Muir, Efrain Bleiberg, Chris Grimes, Carl Fleisher
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Kyle reviews each inquiry personally. Engagements that may be a fit typically begin with a brief consultation, followed by a proposed scope, format, and fee.
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