Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills Training - DBT Skills Group

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills Training - Live Powerfully

About DBT Skills Groups

It is in Skills Group that you learn and practice the core DBT skill modules.

The DBT curriculum taught in Individual Skills Training sessions is identical to the curriculum taught in Skills Group. Whether you choose to participate in Individual DBT Skills Training or a DBT Skills Group is largely based upon personal preference, as well as therapist recommendation.

Core DBT Skill Modules:

1) Mindfulness- you learn the art of focusing your attention on one thing at a time, and how to be fully present in the moment. There is a peaceful and wise place within called "wisemind"... you learn to BE in this place where thoughts and feelings come and go like waves.

2) Emotional regulation- you learn how to experience and express your emotions in a safe and meaningful way. Reducing emotional vulnerability along with increasing your awareness of the value, function and role of emotions is learned and further explored in this module.

3) Distress Tolerance - you learn how to tolerate and manage distressing emotions and situations by practicing new skills and behaviors including self-soothing, distracting, problem-solving and improving the moment.

4) Interpersonal Effectiveness - you learn how to build and maintain healthy relationships, how to balance priorities vs. demands, wants vs. shoulds, and how to achieve a greater sense of mastery, self respect and self regard in life.
*Self Management - you learn how to check in with your self, validate, correct or reinforce your own thoughts, emotions and actions.

Coaching calls

Darcie offers coaching calls in between Skills Groups to help validate and reinforce her client's efforts to practice newly learned DBT skills and more adaptive choices in problematic situations and during stressful events.