COMPREHENSIVE DBT
Our DBT programs for adolescents and adults are designed to give participants the tools to effectively enact change so that they can begin to pursue a life worth living. Through our approach designed to provide both acceptance and tangible interventions to promote change, we can help you increase your self-awareness, regulate your emotional response, control your impulsive behavior, and effectively manage your relationships.
WHAT THE PROGRAM INCLUDES
Group Skills Training – Clients are taught the DBT skills of mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Ninety minute Skills Training Groups occur once per week for 24 weeks. The adolescent program follows the Rathus and Miller multifamily model so it includes an additional module specifically for families.
Individual Therapy – Skills and strategies of DBT are individualized to the client and applied to help them achieve their specific treatment goals. Individual sessions generally occur once per week for 50 minutes.
Phone Coaching – Individual therapists provide between-session coaching for crisis situations. Generally two coaching sessions per week are provided.
Consultation Team – DBT therapists also participate in a therapist consultation team once per week that is focused on helping them to provide the most effective treatment possible.
Case Management – Consultation with other providers and family members, attendance at school IEP and planning meetings, communication with insurance providers, etc.
WE TREAT
Explosive anger with aggression
Suicidal ideation/threats/gestures/attempts
Non-suicidal self-injury & harm
Relationship dysfunction
Borderline Personality Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Major Depression
Impulsive behavior (e.g. binging/purging, substance abuse, sexual promiscuity)
Intense Anxiety
Trauma
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
DBT SKILLS TRAINING GROUPS
For Adolescents
5 Modules | 24 total weeks
ORIENTATION & MINDFULNESS SKILLS
Skills to allow for full awareness and presence in the moment and to increase self-awareness
DISTRESS TOLERANCE SKILLS
Skills to reduce the intensity of emotional distress
EMOTION REGULATION SKILLS
Skills to effectively regulate emotional responses
INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS SKILLS
Skills to effectively manage relationships
WALKING THE MIDDLE PATH
Skills to help adolescents and their parents to compromise and resolve conflicts
For Adults
4 Modules | 24 total weeks
ORIENTATION & MINDFULNESS SKILLS
Skills to allow for full awareness and presence in the moment and to increase self-awareness
DISTRESS TOLERANCE SKILLS
Skills to reduce the intensity of emotional distress
EMOTION REGULATION SKILLS
Skills to effectively regulate emotional responses
INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS SKILLS
Skills to effectively manage relationships