Description
GROUP DESCRIPTION
DBT was created by Martha Linehan to treat people struggling with Borderline Personality
Disorder, which had previously been deemed untreatable. We find that DBT skills (including
Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotional Regulation, and Distress Tolerance) are useful
to everyone. Including us! Group participants will receive psychoeducation on the skills, discuss
how they utilize them in daily life, and empathize and troubleshoot challenges with one another.
REQUIREMENTS
- Clients must be in individual therapy
- Client must sign release for group therapist to speak to individual therapist
- A free 15-minute screening with clinical director to determine if group is
- A 60-minute intake with group leader
- Attendance at all 12 sessions (baring true emergency)
- Willingness to participate in group and practice skills during the week
CURRICULUM
Week 1 DBT Skills Group & Behavior Chain Analysis
Week 2 Distress Tolerance Skills I: Crisis Survival Skills
Week 3 Distress Tolerance Skills II: Radical Acceptance
Week 4 Distress Tolerance Skills III: Willingness
Week 5 Distress Tolerance Skills IV: Changing Unhealthy Behavior
Week 6 Mindfulness Part I: What & How Skills, Wise Mind & Dialectics
Week 7 Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills I: Myths DEARMAN GIVE FAST
Week 8 Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills II: Building and Ending Relationships
Week 9 Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills III: Balancing Acceptance and Change
Week 10 Emotional Regulation I: Overview Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind
Week 11 Emotional Regulation II: Understanding & Naming Emotions
Week 12 Emotional Regulation III: Changing Emotional Responses
Group Therapist
Our team feels privileged to bear witness to the story of your roots as you branch out towards your goals. It is our mission to serve a diverse client base by offering insight, empathy, honest feedback, and practical tools to help you overcome obstacles and difficult circumstances. We utilize evidence-based treatments and our team of skillful practitioners is diligent in their own continuous professional development to serve you better. Our mission is to empower our clients to courageously pursue lives of genuine connection, professional fulfillment, wondrous adventure and mindful acceptance.
