About DBT

Many of our therapists have training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), an evidence-based treatment, that focuses on four key areas when providing therapeutic skills. These four areas include; mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Our goal is to build your skills in all four areas and provide you with tools that you can use outside of the therapy room. Mindfulness will focus on improving an individual’s ability to accept and be present in the current moment. Distress tolerance will aim to increase your tolerance of negative emotions rather than trying to avoid them. Emotion regulation comes in to manage and change intense emotions that may be causing problems in your life, and the last component, interpersonal effectiveness, consists of techniques that allow an individual to communicate with others in a way that is assertive, maintains self-respect, and strengthens relationships. 

Research has shown that DBT has been successfully used to treat individuals experiencing depression, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance use. DBT also lends itself to helping our clients increase their resilience and build the skills to change unwanted behaviors, emotions, thoughts, or events in their life that cause distress as well as how to live in the moment and accept what can’t be changed.

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