Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Services

DBT Treatment

Have you ever found yourself unable to calm down, use your words, and/or just want to better communicate what you need without the miscommunications that tend to go with it? Well, then Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) might be a form of therapy that is right for you.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a common form of therapy used to assist clients in becoming more aware of their thoughts, behaviors, and informing individuals of the skills available for use to improve daily living skills. Skills utilized in DBT include mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.

Mindfulness begins with gaining an awareness of what is internally or externally going on around you. It gives individuals the capability of learning about and working to improve the many factors playing into their daily life stressors, triggers, traumas, and could improve a person’s overall health.

Treatment Process

Learning about acceptance & mindfulness benefits.

This is used for working with individuals who can be experiencing deregulation with emotions, struggles communicating with others, incorporating self-care into daily routine, and/or those who are experiencing high stress & anxiety.

When working with these individuals first gaining perspective into their daily routine, organizing information and becoming aware of behavioral patterns, needing increase practice skills in and out of session, and also those experiencing mood symptoms or past traumas hindering connection with others.

Most clients can benefit from DBT in training the brain to regulate, be calm, accept, and focus on how to improve our world through skill-building and practice.