While providing trauma-focused treatment can be very meaningful and rewarding, it also creates special challenges for therapists, especially when working with clients who have histories of life-threatening behaviors and severe interpersonal trauma. The therapeutic relationship is often a powerful component in treating clients’ trauma and, as such, runs the risk of overwhelming the therapist if not attended to mindfully. The ability to sustain trauma work requires therapists to be aware of their own limits and be skilled at communicating and maintaining them with clients. In this webinar, we explore the DBT Observing Limits Procedures and identify strategies for applying them in DBT individual therapy during Stage 1 and while delivering DBT PE in Stage 2. Special emphasis is placed on between-session contact and the targeting of treatment-interfering behaviors that push therapists’ limits and generate fear and frustration. The overarching goal of this webinar is to help therapists develop a dialectical balance between their own needs and the needs of their clients in order to reduce the risk of burnout and maximize sustainability.