Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Do you feel your mind is being pulled in a hundred different directions at once? Do you have a hard time handling some of your emotions, and does this cause any problems in your relationships? Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers individuals comprehensive skills to manage painful memories and emotions and decrease conflicts in their relationships.Many of us live our daily lives with a constant stream of uncontrollable negative emotions right under our awareness.

DBT offers robust and comprehensive skills for coping and managing difficult emotions or circumstances. Most of my work involves gentle and deep exploration, without much agenda for outcome. However, when clients are needing something more concrete to hold onto, I appreciate how effective and grounding it is to incorporate skill building.

DBT is a wonderful resource to strengthen identity while reduce self harming behaviors. We learn life skills and how to manage emotions. Through DBT, you learn how to slow down your thoughts so you can be more present life.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, is a highly researched set of skills/techniques that is useful with a variety of mental health struggles. It is commonly used in the treatment of personality disorders, but also is very useful with various mood difficulties, as well as chronic stress. I am trained in DBT, and work with client's on developing the specific set of skills that will work for each individual. I also help client's with not only learning the skills, but specifically how to implement them.

utilizing an electric approach including principles from humanistic or person-centered therapy (PCT), cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical-behavioral therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based therapy (MBT).

I facilitated a DBT skills group for two years with a large number of clients. While I do NOT formally practice DBT, I integrate DBT skills into my work because they're so helpful. So if you don't need full formal DBT with groups and diary cards, but have heard about it and are curious about what's in it, I can help you there.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy brings together two ideas: accepting things as they are (what we cannot control) while also motivating us to own our power to change things for the better (what we can control). The goal is to develop ‘wise mind’, or the capacity to be realistic and mindful of our situation rather that succumb to reactive behavior. DBT combines Cognitive-behavioral tenets (looking at how emotions and thoughts affect our behaviors) with Buddhist meditative practices to help people struggling with suicidality, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and more. The main points of DBT are: mindfulness/meditation; communicating effectively in relationships, how to better tolerate distress and cope with triggering emotions. Whether it’s learning to meditate, trying out positive self-talk, exposing themselves safely to challenging emotions, or practicing difficult conversations they want to have with loved ones, my clients find much practical use of DBT.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy combines mindfulness and emotion regulations to help you manage difficult feelings to change your behavior when coping with painful emotions. This process can help p frees you from using these unhealthy coping behaviors that cause more pain in your life.

DBT combines standard cognitive-behavioral techniques along with acceptance, mindfulness and distress tolerance. DBT can help with treating anxiety, trauma, PTSD and substance use. DBT can help provide steps and ways to cope with any negative feelings and thoughts that may be coming up for you. DBT is evidence-based therapy modality that can provide healthy ways to manage your emotions, thoughts and beliefs.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an approach I draw upon where appropriate to help clients manage overwhelming emotions, navigate relationships, and increase mindfulness. DBT provides practical tools for building emotional resilience and healthier coping mechanisms. By balancing acceptance and change, we address immediate challenges while creating space for meaningful growth and self-awareness.

Sometimes we all need a structured cheat sheet for basic and advanced human interactions. DBT can offer us simple tools and skills for a variety of situations. It is an evidence based treatment that has been highly effective in helping folks take a wise approach to our triggers.

Why ruminate when you can free your mind and soul to be in the moment? Can you tell I have a thing for mindfulness. DBT is where mindfulness and CBT meet. The main goals of DBT are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with self and others.

A fundamental premise of DBT is building a life we want to live in. It's goal-oriented and focuses on skills we can use and actions we can take to better our lives. DBT focuses on 4 core elements we can all learn more about: mindfulness, interpersonal-effectiveness, emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance.

DBT is essential to my work in helping people gain mastery of their lives. Skills in mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance and emotional regulation are elements that help a people with functioning effectively and in a satisfying manner.

We teach DBT skills in a flexible way tailored to our clients. These are skills that are helpful for all of us (why didn’t we learn them in middle school?) to support emotional awareness and regulation, develop healthy communication and assertiveness, and be able to get through intense moments in our life. These skills can also be helpful for clients to gain more self-reliance between therapy sessions, and trust themselves to make wise choices!

I enjoy working with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help both individuals & couples learn to emotionally regulate. DBT is also beneficial for treating: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Bipolar disorder, Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), Major depressive disorder, Substance use disorders. DBT is effective to help individuals and couples understand & accept difficult/intense feelings. DBT helps clients gain emotional intelligence & learn to manage their emotions.

DBT closely resembles that of the ACT approach. It has been shown to be most effective when treating personality disorder such as borderline personality disorder. The purpose of DBT is to strengthen one's tolerance and flexibility to stress.