Possibilities Therapeutic Services, P.A.
Possibilities Therapeutic Services, P.A.
Individual, Couples and Family Therapy - Assessments
Individual, Couples and Family Therapy - Assessments
What is DBT and how can it help me?
Designed in the early 1990's, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) gives hope and confidence to clients. Developed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., DBT was originally used to treat chronic suicidal individuals. However, now therapists across the country use it to help treat a wider range of mental health issues including but not limited to Borderline Personality Disorder, eating disorders and addictions. The individual skills programming is divided into four sections of skills which help clients to learn how to effectively manage urges to use chemicals, gamble, binge eat or self-harm.
Core Mindfulness Skills:
The "Core" Skills of DBT skills training
Become more mindful of thoughts, feelings and urges and acting with intuition
Decrease the amount of judgments clients make about themselves and others
Participating and "throwing yourself in" (with wise mind)
Distress Tolerance Skills:
Tolerate and survive a crisis (without making it worse)
"Distract" themselves in their attempts to regulate their emotions
Self-soothing the fives senses in times of a crisis
"Radically Accepting" the crisis as it is and letting go of the struggle
Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills:
Skills to help clients make requests and say NO (and have it stick)
Teaching clients how to improve and attend to relationships
Self-respect in the client and the respect others have for them
Emotion Regulation Skills:
Regulate or even change intense emotions
Decrease emotional vulnerability in clients
Decrease negative emotions and increase the positive
"Building a Life Worth Living"- recreational, leisure/pleasant activities schedules and or planning to prevent relapse on skills training.