Group Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy – Group skills training
This is an ongoing group which is skills training group that is designed to teach you specific skills to help you better understand and manage your emotions, relationships and build a better life for yourself. This group is much like being in a classroom for 2 hours teaching you skills that, when practiced, will become new and more effective ways of coping with difficult emotions and situations.
DBT Skills Include
Mindfulness: These skills will help you become more aware of your thoughts and emotions, learn to be less judgmental of yourself and others, and become more attentive to the present moment.
Emotion Regulation: These skills will assist you in better managing your emotions by providing strategies for increasing your emotional awareness, decreasing your emotional vulnerabilities, and changing unwanted emotions.
Distress Tolerance: These skills are designed to provide you with a variety of strategies for more effectively managing stressful situations.
Interpersonal Effectiveness: These skills are designed to teach you how to more effectively ask for what you want, building more meaningful relationships, and feeling better about yourself when doing so.
