Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Need help coping with upsetting events, managing your emotions, creating more meaningful relationships, living more in the moment, and building awareness of your values?

DBT may be the right approach for you.

Build a Life Worth Living

The purpose of DBT is to help enhance your capacity to meet life’s challenges effectively while building a fulfilling, worthwhile life. 

You’ll learn skills from the main four modules:

  • Mindfulness: the practice of being fully aware and present in this one moment and to act more intentionally (and less reactively)

  • Distress Tolerance: how to tolerate pain in difficult situations, not change it, and how to not make the situation worse

  • Interpersonal Effectiveness: how to ask for what you want and say no while maintaining self-respect and relationships with others

  • Emotion Regulation: how to change emotions that you want to change

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What is DBT?

DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) is an evidence-based treatment approach that can create measurable and sustainable results for people struggling with a variety of issues, such as depression, anxiety, substance misuse, and disordered eating.

The D in DBT stands for the philosophy of Dialectics, which is the principle that two opposing things, such as beliefs or feelings, can both be true. The main dialectic in DBT is balancing acceptance and change.

The B refers to Behavior. DBT grew out of another evidence-based practice, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which means that it focuses on changing emotions, thoughts and behaviors that are currently interfering with your ability to have the life that you want.

The T is obviously Therapy. And a big part of this type of therapy is Mindfulness, a non-judgmental and acceptance-based practice that helps us allow our experiences without trying to suppress or avoid them.

The reason behind learning Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills is to help you enhance your effectiveness at meeting life’s challenges while prioritizing building a fulfilling, worthwhile life.