Dialectical Behavior Therapy Group

Our Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group spans over a course of 12 weeks, incorporating all four modules, 60-90 minutes in length, and run consecutively. Each week, an e-mail including worksheets and other helpful content will be provided. The class will begin with a mindfulness exercise, a review of the previous class, followed by a check-in of homework, then after coming back from break, we will explore new materials and skills.

DBT includes four behavioral skill modules, with two acceptance-oriented skills (mindfulness and distress tolerance) and two change-oriented skills (emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness).

• Mindfulness: the practice of being fully aware and present in this one moment

• Distress Tolerance: how to tolerate pain in difficult situations, not change it

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

• Emotion Regulation: how to decrease vulnerability to painful emotions and change emotions that you want to change