The DBT Center helps people who are experiencing:
Extreme emotional “ups and downs”
Lost time when under stress, or feeling like you “blacked out” when stressed
Feeling “empty” and having thoughts of: “Who am I?” or “Why don’t I know who I am?”
Challenges communicating with loved ones, coworkers, friends, or really ANYone
Not knowing how to make or keep friends
Not knowing how to get out of relationships with destructive people
A LOT of anger, and a fear of abandonment if anyone sees the “real” you
Confusion about why your emotions are so intense and won’t change
Impulsive urges, that are self-damaging, to get rid of pain or loneliness (i.e. using drugs, alcohol, food, shopping, shoplifting, gaming, sex, reckless driving, etc. to “numb out”)
Recurring suicidal thoughts, urges and behaviors
Thinking that self-harm is a good way to punish yourself or get rid of intense pain
Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder, Dissociation, Addictions, Persistent and Major Depression, Social Anxiety, and General Anxiety
…if this sounds like you, we have some solutions for you, and we are here to talk.
At the DBT Center, we use
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
to treat adults, 18 years and over.
This program includes:
At the DBT Center,
we use Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to treat adults,
18 years and over.
This program includes:
Individual Psychotherapy Sessions
(50 minutes each)
Individuals will meet with a DBT-trained therapist at least once per week (additional frequency is determined with therapist).
Weekly Attendance in DBT Skills Groups for Adults
The participant will attend each module of skills groups, twice. This process takes approximately 1.5 years to complete. The three skills groups are as follows:
Distress Tolerance
A 10-week group focused on teaching participants to skillfully tolerate the pain and discomfort of intense feelings and emotional reactions. The skills teach acceptance of the situations that we cannot change, and pain that we experience in our everyday lives.
Interpersonal Effectiveness
A 10-week group focused on teaching participants to skillfully get what they want from, or say no to, someone else without destroying or damaging the relationship. These skills teach participants how to have healthy communications, increase self-respect, get friends, and improve their relationships.
Emotion Regulation
A 14-week group focused on changing or getting rid of unwanted emotions. This group is especially valuable for those individuals who feel emotionally vulnerable. An emotionally vulnerable person: 1) is highly sensitive to emotional triggers or prompting events, 2) has intense emotional reactions to triggers, and 3) experiences a slow return to their emotional baseline (or where they started before they were emotionally triggered). The participant will learn how to identify their emotions and change unwanted emotions while also being effective and skillful.
Mindfulness
Taught and included in the first sessions of each group module. The participants are taught that mindfulness is awareness. They focus on their awareness of themselves, their reactions to their environments, the triggers that the environment creates, physical reactions that they experiences, and many other occurrences in everyday life. Mindfulness is the foundation for skillfulness in all areas of life – which is why it is emphasized in each module.
Telephone Skills Coaching
Available to the participant when they are not in individual or skills group sessions. The coaching call is with the client’s individual DBT therapist. Telephone skills coaching is designed as a way to support the participant during the week in using their skills effectively.
Consultation to the Therapist
A service for the therapist, between therapists, that is used to strengthen and continually improve the DBT therapists’ knowledge and experience in treating participants. At least once per week, DBT therapists meet together to provide consultation to each other on DBT therapy, on particular DBT skills, and as a support in providing excellent psychotherapy services to The DBT Center participant.
Please contact us for a free 15 minute telephone consultation to help you decide if Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a fit for you.
We believe in the power of therapy.
We believe that acceptance and change can happen.
We believe that you can have a life worth living!
