Dr. Kirby Reutter

Dr. Kirby Reutter I am a licensed psychologist in both Ohio and Texas.

I specialize in working with traumatized youth, providing psychological evaluations for international adoptions, and offering professional trainings throughout the country. **For information on PESI events: https://www.pesi.com/speaker/details/01292630

**For information on Vyne events:
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08/11/2026

One way to change unhelpful thoughts is to work the TOM: Thought, Opposite, Middle. Watch this brief clip and see if you can identify your own unhelpful thought, come up with an outrageous opposite, and then find a happy median that is probably more realistic than either extreme.

Dr. Kirby Reutter has new book, "Healing with Trauma-Focused DBT: A Trauma Survivor’s Guide to Manage Intense Emotions and Reclaim Your Life," is now available in paperback as well as audiobook!

Click to buy your copy today!

https://www.drkirbyreutter.com/books

For more information on this topic, as well as those interested in earning CEU's, visit drkirbyreuter.com.

07/28/2026

We often wonder why the person at the gas station got so mad at us for apparently no reason...But did you ever stop to think that they may be battling an issue you cannot see? Dr. Kirby explains.

Dr. Kirby Reutter new book, "Healing with Trauma-Focused DBT: A Trauma Survivor’s Guide to Manage Intense Emotions and Reclaim Your Life," is now available in paperback as well as audiobook!

Click to buy your copy today!
https://www.drkirbyreutter.com/books

For more information on this topic, as well as those interested in earning CEU's, visit drkirbyreuter.com.



07/14/2026

Interpersonal effectiveness is the art and science of dealing with other people...communication, conflict, and all that jazz. But here's the secret to interpersonal effectiveness: We can't possibly deal with other people's thoughts, feelings, triggers, and reactions...until we first learn how to manage our own!

Dr. Kirby Reutter has a new book, "Healing with Trauma-Focused DBT: A Trauma Survivor’s Guide to Manage Intense Emotions and Reclaim Your Life," is now available in paperback as well as audiobook!

Click to buy your copy today!

https://www.drkirbyreutter.com/books

For more information on this topic, as well as those interested in earning CEU's, visit drkirbyreuter.com.

06/30/2026

Point for point, learning to care for your emotions is really no different than learning to care for a garden of flowers. Does a garden sometimes need pest control? So do your emotions! In this segment, we finish the 10-step plan for dealing with the pests of life: Problems!

Dr. Kirby Reutter has a new book, "Healing with Trauma-Focused DBT: A Trauma Survivor’s Guide to Manage Intense Emotions and Reclaim Your Life," is now available in paperback as well as audiobook!

Click to buy your copy today!

https://www.drkirbyreutter.com/books

For more information on this topic, as well as those interested in earning CEU's, visit drkirbyreuter.com.

06/16/2026

The secret to emotion regulation is learning to care for your emotions the same way you would nurture a garden of flowers. If this segment, you will learn pest control!

Dr. Kirby Reutter has a new book, "Healing with Trauma-Focused DBT: A Trauma Survivor’s Guide to Manage Intense Emotions and Reclaim Your Life," is now available in paperback as well as audiobook!

Click to buy your copy today!

https://www.drkirbyreutter.com/books

For more information on this topic, as well as those interested in earning CEU's, visit drkirbyreuter.com.

Dr. Kirby Reutter has a new Blog post.On this blog entry, Psychologist Dr. Kirby Reutter explains the extremes caused...
06/04/2026

Dr. Kirby Reutter has a new Blog post.

On this blog entry, Psychologist Dr. Kirby Reutter explains the extremes caused by trauma, as well as the middle path between those major extremes.

This blog entry is called Mindfulness for Trauma: Part five.

https://www.drkirbyreutter.com/blog/mindfulness-for-trauma-part-5

06/02/2026

The key to emotion regulation is learning to relate to your emotions the same way you would treat a garden of flowers. For example, would it make any sense to control, coerce, manipulate, humiliate, or guilt trip a garden of flowers? How about yell at them? Ignore them? Bury them?? Of course not! Emotions, like flowers, need a different approach.

Dr. Kirby Reutter has a brand new book, "Healing with Trauma-Focused DBT: A Trauma Survivor’s Guide to Manage Intense Emotions and Reclaim Your Life," is now available in paperback as well as audiobook.

Click to buy your copy today!

https://www.drkirbyreutter.com/books

For more information on this topic, as well as those interested in earning CEU's, visit drkirbyreuter.com.

05/26/2026

Introduction to Emotional Regulation by Psychologist Dr. Kirby Reutter.

DBT can be intimating with all it's jargon. So let's cut to the chase: DBT is all about harnessing the power of mindfulness to bring stability to our thoughts, emotions, and reactions, and relationships.

Dr. Kirby Reutter has a new book, "Healing with Trauma-Focused DBT: A Trauma Survivor’s Guide to Manage Intense Emotions and Reclaim Your Life," is now available in paperback as well as audiobook!

Click to buy your copy today!

https://www.drkirbyreutter.com/books

For more information on this topic, and for those wishing to earn CEU's, visit drkirbyreuter.com.

05/19/2026

If the temperature suddenly dropped from 85 degrees to 35 degrees, would you notice the difference? We can literally decrease our emotional intensity that much simply by shifting our thinking more to the middle. Just ask TOM!

Dr. Reutter's new book, "Healing with Trauma-Focused DBT: A Trauma Survivor’s Guide to Manage Intense Emotions and Reclaim Your Life," is now available in paperback as well as audiobook!

Click to buy your copy today!

https://www.drkirbyreutter.com/books

For more information on this topic, and for those wishing to earn CEU's, visit drkirbyreuter.com.

Dr. Kirby Reutter has a new Blog post.On this blog entry, Psychologist Dr. Kirby Reutter explains the extremes caused ...
05/14/2026

Dr. Kirby Reutter has a new Blog post.

On this blog entry, Psychologist Dr. Kirby Reutter explains the extremes caused by trauma, as well as the middle path between those major extremes.

This blog entry is called Mindfulness for Trauma: Part four.

https://www.drkirbyreutter.com/blog/mindfulness-for-trauma-part-4

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