Compass Behavioral Health

We believe in fulfillment: living your purpose in community.
At Compass Behavioral Health, we do one thing, and we do it with excellence — we treat depression and anxiety in teens. We're California's first DBT-Linehan Board–certified program, a past Duke University research site, and a training partner to UCI and Columbia.

We're hiring a Nurse Manager (RN preferred; LVN considered) to lead nursing at The Farmhouse, our adolescent DBT residential program in Tustin.
You'll lead and develop a nursing and residential team, own quality and regulatory excellence (Joint Commission, CARF, CCLD), and grow your own DBT expertise alongside a nationally recognized faculty.

What we offer:
• Total target cash $128K–$141K (RN), with performance pay scored and paid every payroll
• Sunday–Thursday schedule — Friday & Saturday off
• A beautiful residential campus built for whole-body wellness

If you want your work to mean something — to live your purpose in community — let's talk.

👉 Apply: https://www.indeed.com/job/registered-nurse-rn-manager-adolescent-dbt-mental-health-residential-program-4b14938d2a14c3ca

The biggest barrier to self-compassion in self-hating adolescents?
Believing they deserve it. Prescribing self-compassion directly often produces: "I can't do this — which proves how broken I am."

The clinical art is to start where the patient can meet you; at neutrality, at curiosity, at the question itself.

--- CE Training | JUNE 5, 2026 | TUSTIN CA + REMOTE ---

Learn More by joining Compass and Dr. Blaise Aguirre for a deep dive into Treating Self Hatred in suicidal and self-harming adolescents.

This is a must attend for clinicians looking to sharpen their Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) lens and provide more impactful care.

The Details:
When: June 5th, 2026 8:30AM-2:30PM PST
Where: Hybrid! Join us in-person in Tustin, CA or virtually from anywhere in the world.
Perks: Earn +5 CE Credits upon completion
In-Person Perks: +5 CE Credits, catered lunch, and signed copy of Dr. Aguirre's Book.

Why Attend?
Self-hatred is often the silent engine driving high-risk behaviors. Dr. Aguirre will break down evidence-based strategies to help your clients move from self-rejection to self-compassion.

Ready to reserve your spot?
compassbehavioralhealth.com/treating-self-hatred
🔗Link in bio

She has a calm certainty that her existence is an affront to others. She views NSSI as "justice" — bleeding out the badness so she doesn't infect anyone else. This is not perfectionism. This is identity-level self-hatred wearing a perfectionist mask.

--- CE Training | JUNE 5, 2026 | TUSTIN CA + REMOTE ---

Learn More by joining Compass and Dr. Blaise Aguirre for a deep dive into Treating Self Hatred in suicidal and self-harming adolescents.

This is a must attend for clinicians looking to sharpen their Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) lens and provide more impactful care.

The Details:
When: June 5th, 2026 8:30AM-2:30PM PST
Where: Hybrid! Join us in-person in Tustin, CA or virtually from anywhere in the world.
Perks: Earn +5 CE Credits upon completion
In-Person Perks: +5 CE Credits, catered lunch, and signed copy of Dr. Aguirre's Book.

Why Attend?
Self-hatred is often the silent engine driving high-risk behaviors. Dr. Aguirre will break down evidence-based strategies to help your clients move from self-rejection to self-compassion.

Ready to reserve your spot?
compassbehavioralhealth.com/treating-self-hatred
🔗Link in bio

Some of my patients who experience self-hatred have been diagnosed with depression and some have not. Of the ones who had depression, when the depression was successfully treated, the worthlessness feeling lifted, but the self-loathing did not." — Aguirre, 2024
The differentiation isn't academic. It determines treatment from session one.

--- CE Training | JUNE 5, 2026 | TUSTIN CA + REMOTE ---

Learn More by joining Compass and Dr. Blaise Aguirre for a deep dive into Treating Self Hatred in suicidal and self-harming adolescents.

This is a must attend for clinicians looking to sharpen their Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) lens and provide more impactful care.

The Details:
When: June 5th, 2026 8:30AM-2:30PM PST
Where: Hybrid! Join us in-person in Tustin, CA or virtually from anywhere in the world.
Perks: Earn +5 CE Credits upon completion
In-Person Perks: +5 CE Credits, catered lunch, and signed copy of Dr. Aguirre's Book.

Why Attend?
Self-hatred is often the silent engine driving high-risk behaviors. Dr. Aguirre will break down evidence-based strategies to help your clients move from self-rejection to self-compassion.

Ready to reserve your spot?
compassbehavioralhealth.com/treating-self-hatred
🔗Link in bio

"Some of my patients who experience self-hatred have been diagnosed with depression and some have not. Of the ones who had depression, when the depression was successfully treated, the worthlessness feeling lifted, but the self-loathing did not." — Aguirre, 2024

The differentiation isn't academic. It determines treatment from session one.

--- CE Training | JUNE 5, 2026 | TUSTIN CA + REMOTE ---
Learn More by joining Compass and Dr. Blaise Aguirre for a deep dive into Treating Self Hatred in suicidal and self-harming adolescents.

This is a must attend for clinicians looking to sharpen their Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) lens and provide more impactful care.

The Details:
When: June 5th, 2026 8:30AM-2:30PM PST
Where: Hybrid! Join us in-person in Tustin, CA or virtually from anywhere in the world.
Perks: Earn +5 CE Credits upon completion
In-Person Perks: +5 CE Credits, catered lunch, and signed copy of Dr. Aguirre's Book.

Why Attend?
Self-hatred is often the silent engine driving high-risk behaviors. Dr. Aguirre will break down evidence-based strategies to help your clients move from self-rejection to self-compassion.

Ready to reserve your spot?
compassbehavioralhealth.com/treating-self-hatred
🔗Link in bio

Learn more about when identity is the wound by joining Compass Behavioral Health and Dr. Blaise Aguirre (McLean Hospital| Harvard Medical School) for a deep dive into treating self-hatred in suicidal and self-harming adolescents.

This is a must-attend for clinicians looking to sharpen their Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) lens and provide more impactful care.

The Details:
When: June 5th, 2026 8:30 AM PST
Where: Hybrid! Join us in-person in Tustin, CA, or virtually from anywhere in the world.
Perks: Earn +5 CE Credits upon completion.

Why Attend?
Self-hatred is often the silent engine driving high-risk behaviors. Dr. Aguirre will break down evidence-based strategies to help your clients move from self-rejection to self-compassion.

Ready to reserve your spot? Link in bio 🔗

The single biggest blind spot in adolescent su***de risk assessment? Treating self-hatred as if it were depression, shame, or low self-esteem. It isn't. It's an identity-level belief — and it requires its own conceptualization, its own assessment, and its own treatment.

─── CE TRAINING | JUNE 5, 2026 | TUSTIN, CA + REMOTE

Treating Self-Hatred in Suicidal &
Self-Harming adolescents

with Blaise Aguirre, MD
— Founding Medical Director, 3East DBT Continuum, McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School. Internationally recognized expert in adolescent suicidality and DBT. Author of I Hate Myself: Overcome Self-Loathing and Realize Why You're Wrong About You, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents, and DBT for Dummies.

Featuring a Lunch-and-Learn
with Cherie Mills, LMFT
— Executive Director of Compass Behavioral Health, Linehan Board of Certification Certified DBT Clinician™, and founder of California's first DBT-LBC Certified Program™.

✅5.0 CE credits (APA & CMA accredited)
✅Limited in-person seats

🔗Register:
compassbehavioralhealth.com/treating-self-hatred
(link in bio)

You've said all the right things. "You're amazing." "I love you." "You're enough." But your child still looks in the mirror and sees something broken.

If you're a parent watching your teen struggle with self-hatred, you already know, love alone doesn't always reach them. And that's not your failure. Self-criticism this deep needs more than reassurance; it needs the right tools, the right support, and sometimes, the right kind of help.

In our latest blog, we share what's actually happening beneath the surface when your teen turns against themselves and what you can do.

Read the full post: link in bio.
https://compassbehavioralhealth.com/when-love-is-not-enough/

SAVE THE DATE, June 5
Join us for an in-depth training event where we'll dive into treating self-hatred. Parents are welcome! DM us for a discount!

At Compass Behavioral Health, we walk alongside families through moments like these. Our DBT-certified program serve teens ages 13–17 at our Residential treatment center.

You don't have to navigate this alone. 💙

Learn more about social media's quiet damage by joining Compass Behavioral Health and Dr. Blaise Aguirre (McLean Hospital| Harvard Medical School) for a deep dive into treating self-hatred in suicidal and self-harming adolescents.

This is a must-attend for clinicians looking to sharpen their Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) lens and provide more impactful care.

The Details:
When: June 5th, 2026 8:30 AM PST
Where: Hybrid! Join us in-person in Tustin, CA, or virtually from anywhere in the world.
Perks: Earn +5 CE Credits upon completion
In-Person Perks: CE Credits, catered lunch and a signed copy of Dr. Aguirre's Book

Why Attend?
Self-hatred is often the silent engine driving high-risk behaviors. Dr. Aguirre will break down evidence-based strategies to help your clients move from self-rejection to self-compassion.

Ready to reserve your spot?
Link in bio 🔗