Individual Skills Training
It is in Individual DBT Skills Training 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 Individual Skills Training sessions to help validate and
reinforce her client's efforts to practice newly learned DBT skills and
make more adaptive choices in problematic situations and during
stressful events.
