Finding Balance

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is appropriate for people who struggle with:

• Self-Harm
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Substance Use
• Emotionally Driven Behavior
• Anger Difficulties
• Suicidal Tendencies
• Relationship Conflicts

DBT uses specific skills and strategies to help people create healthier lives. Using DBT skills on a daily basis can increase self compassion which translates into improved self esteem and more functional relationships with family members, friends, and co-workers. DBT skills teach practical, concrete steps toward better problem solving, conflict management, and overall communication. These skills help people to become better regulated and happier in their lives so that emotions do not drive behaviors any longer and people can freely create lives that are meaningful and enjoyable.

Tween DBT Group

Kids experience so much stress these days! Tweens will bond around how to develop more prosocial, constructive ways of managing social tensions, family challenges, academic pressures, and mood swings. In this supportive group, tweens work on developing much better coping strategies to modulate their emotional responses. We focus on mindfulness/meditation techniques, distress tolerance to surf the urge of emotional ups and downs, and interpersonal effectiveness techniques to improve peer and family relationships. We include parents in the process of treatment to help kids practice the skills more often in their daily lives. 

Teen DBT Group

In this teen DBT group, adolescents develop the ability to balance their emotional responses in stressful situations by using specific coping strategies. We use mindfulness techniques and many other behavioral skills in order to help our clients increase the ability to control destructive impulses. Typical behaviors that we work to modify include cutting, stealing, binging/purging, yelling, angry outbursts, and substance abuse. We also offer a series of online parenting classes to help parents understand DBT and how to respond effectively when your son or daughter is dysregulated or emotionally unstable. Our online classes will be available for purchase on this website very soon. Please call to schedule an initial consultation to consider joining one of these groups.

Adult DBT Group

This groups focuses on the practice of mindfulness and individuals explore the benefits and strategies that promote the integration of these skills into day to day living. Group members learn DBT skills to become better emotionally regulated and to improve the quality of their functioning at work and in relationship with loved ones. Group members learn practical tools that encourage them to become better regulated, less distressed, and live happier, more fulfilling, and richer lives. Please call to schedule an initial consultation to consider joining this group.

Parent Group

This is an 8 week course that offers parents an introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills training, general parenting skills, and mindfulness practice into their daily routines and develop an understanding of the brain benefits that occur for them as well as their teens by engaging in these practices. Specific skills that promote better communication, increase regulation in all family members, and de-escalate dysregulated states will be included in this course.