What is DBT?
Comprehensive Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a type of therapy based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). It is used to help individuals suffering from a variety of mental health concerns learn to manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in healthier ways. This program is perfect for you is you struggle with:
1) Emotion dysregulation: When a person becomes emotionally dysregulated, they may react in an emotionally exaggerated manner to environmental and interpersonal challenges by displaying bursts of anger, crying, accusing, passive-aggressive behaviors, or by creating conflict.
2) Behavioral dysregulation (impulsivity): having strong emotions that are difficult to tolerate in the moment, which leads to engaging in behaviors that have a negative impact on your life. This can include struggling with suicidal thoughts, self-harm, aggression, drinking, drug use, etc.
3) Interpersonal dysregulation: having trouble forming or maintaining friendships, standing up for yourself, keeping your self-respect within relationships, getting what you want from others in a way that you feel good about, or abruptly ending relationships.
4) Self dysregulation: confusion about who you are and what’s important to you. Feelings of emptiness.
5) Cognitive dysregulation: difficulty with understanding other perspectives, extremes in thinking, feeling disconnected from the present moment, or feeling like others are out to get you.