Comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Our fully trained therapists and counselors can help teens, young adults, and adults work through their problems and heal using the proven techniques of DBT therapy.
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What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
Dialectical behavior Therapy (DBT) is a proven and evidence-based treatment that integrates the change-oriented technique of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with the acceptance strategies of eastern Zen practice. The result is a powerful and balanced treatment approach to help you identify and regulate emotions and improve your interactions with others and yourself.
Benefits of DBT Therapy
DBT therapy helps teens, young adults, and adults learn how to regulate their emotions, develop distress tolerance skills, create rewarding relationships, and accept themselves without judgment. DBT therapy focuses on ensuring client’s safety and developing effective coping skills while helping them create a life they want to live.
DBT therapy allows a personalized treatment approach while also offering guidance on the types of symptoms to target first. The trained DBT therapist helps evaluate, identify target symptoms, and set up the priority to address issues for impactful healing:
Life-threatening behaviors:
self-harm behaviors that can harm the person’s body or health are addressed first, such as suicidal ideation, suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury, and all forms of suicide.
Therapy-interfering behaviors:
Behaviors that interfere with the client receiving effective treatment are addressed next, such as arriving late to sessions, canceling appointments without a reason, or not collaborating toward the treatment goals.
Quality of life behaviors:
Behaviors that interfere with a reasonable quality of life, including actions that impact relationships, finances, substance abuse, and more.
Skills acquisition:
Learning new effective behaviors and skills to help achieve their life goals and improve their social interactions and view of themself.
Comprehensive DBT Components
Our seasoned adult, child, and family therapists specialize in dialectical behavior therapy to help you and your family work through your difficult experiences and emotions so that you can achieve a full and complete recovery. We offer the following programs:
DBT Individual Therapy
Our DBT skills groups can help compliment individual therapy or be used as a stand alone treatment. These groups teach and reinforce the core DBT skills modules, including distress tolerance, emotional regulation, core mindfulness, interpersonal skills, and middle path. We offer groups for teens, young adults, and adults.
DBT Skills Training
In rotating DBT Skills Modules – Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, Core Mindfulness, Interpersonal Skills, and Middle Path for Adolescents & their families.
Phone Coaching
For our clients in Comprehensive DBT, phone coaching is offered as a way to be reminded to use their “Wise Mind” and prevent a urge to self-harm or self-destruct.
DBT Consultation Team
For the practicing therapist to stay adherent and conduct the “best practice” possible.
5 DBT Coping Skills
During individual or group DBT, individuals learn specific coping skill sets to help them overcome problems with dysregulation so they can heal and create the life they want. The specific coping skill sets include:
Developing a practice of being fully aware and present in the moment, connected, and tolerate full emotional experiencing.
How to identify and manage emotions, by reducing reactivity and building upon positive life experience and good coping skills.
How to tolerate and experience emotional pain and anxiety without engaging in self-destructive behavior or avoiding feelings; learning to successfully “urge surf” and not self-harm in any way.
Learn effective communication skills such as how to ask for what you want, set boundaries while maintaining self-respect, learning how to have a successful and positive relationship with others.
Learning validation, dialectics, and effective communication for less polarized interactions and more mutual understanding.
Conditions Treated By DBT
Individual and group DBT therapy can help teens through adults struggling with:
- Depression and mood disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Eating disorders
- Trauma
- Unresolved grief
- Self-harm
DBT Addresses 6 Types of Dysregulation
- Emotional dysregulation - difficulties with managing emotions and anxiety, mood instability, impulsiveness, and problems with anger
- Cognitive dysregulation - catastrophic, black-and-white, or all-or-nothing thinking
- Self dysregulation - feelings of emptiness or disconnection and feelings of lack of self-concept and self-worth
- Behavioral dysregulation - impulsive and self-harming behaviors and behaviors that can make one’s life worse not better
- Interpersonal dysregulation - difficulty maintaining positive relationships and fears of rejection and abandonment
- Self-management dysregulation - mood-dependent behavior and procrastination
DBT Skills Groups for Mental Health
Our Resilience DBT Skills Program offers the formal Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills set and incorporates Mindfulness Meditation, Stress Management, and the Expressive Arts Therapies for better self-care and richer self-expression.
Our groups programs serve Adolescents/Parents, Young Adults and University Students and Adults
How do I begin?
Our team is dually and expertly trained in the Treatment of Eating Disorders and DBT for Mental Health. Our Evidenced-Based approaches include FBT, CBT-E, DBT-ED, and Comprehensive DBT for co-occurring mental health conditions. Our outpatient practice has helped Children, Teens and Adults achieve full Eating Disorder Recovery and Mental Health Stability for over 25 years.
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Schedule your 15 minute free phone consultation
This phone screening is highly confidential to help determine if coming to the Resilience practice is the best course for you or your loved one.
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Complete an Expert and Comprehensive Intake
During your intake appointment we will gather more information to identify your stressors and needs. And work with you to develop your resilience treatment plan.
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Get connected with Your Personalized Care Team
Meet with a practitioner to get started on your journey of healing and wellness you know you deserve.
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