Description
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Group is designed to help you build practical skills for managing life's challenges more effectively. Whether you're struggling with overwhelming emotions, relationship difficulties, impulsive behaviors, or feeling stuck in old patterns, DBT provides concrete tools that can help you create meaningful, lasting change. Skills are taught in a supportive, encouraging environment where you can learn at your own pace.
This group focuses on the four core DBT skill areas: mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Participants learn how to better understand and manage emotions, navigate difficult situations without making them worse, communicate more effectively, and develop a life that feels more balanced and fulfilling. Each session combines teaching, discussion, and practical exercises that can be applied to everyday life.
No previous DBT experience is required. Whether you're participating alongside individual therapy or simply looking to strengthen your coping skills, this group offers a welcoming space to learn, practice, and grow. Our goal is to help you feel more confident, connected, and equipped to face life's challenges while building a life worth living.
Group Therapist
Becky Hellwig is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist who works with adults navigating trauma, dissociation, overwhelming emotions, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and life transitions. She is particularly passionate about helping individuals with complex trauma, PTSD, dissociative disorders, including DID and OSDD, and borderline personality disorder.
Becky believes healing happens within safe, authentic relationships. Her approach is warm, collaborative, and tailored to each person's unique needs rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all model. She balances practical skill-building with deeper therapeutic work, helping clients better understand themselves, process difficult experiences, and create meaningful change. Clients often describe her as genuine, direct, and deeply engaged in the therapeutic process.
Her work is informed by extensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), trauma treatment, dissociation, mindfulness-based approaches, attachment theory, and parts-oriented therapies. With nearly two decades of clinical experience, Becky is committed to ongoing learning and helping clients build lives that feel more authentic, meaningful, and worth living.
Becky offers in-person therapy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her office was intentionally designed to feel warm, comfortable, and human, with coffee and tea, journals, blankets, weighted stuffed animals, and creative tools such as sand tray therapy available for clients who find that words alone do not always capture their experience. While she primarily focuses on in-person therapy, telehealth services may be available in states where she is licensed, with limited availability and a waitlist for virtual appointments.
