DBT Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a type of talk therapy utilized for folks who feel emotions intensely and/or experience difficulties with self-harm and thoughts of unaliving. DBT can be helpful for building daily skills and life skills for emotion regulation.

DBT encompasses the word “dialectical”, which means combining opposite ideas at the same time. DBT focuses on synthesizing two or more opposing realities or truths at the same time.

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DBT empowers you by providing skills to navigate many areas of life including relationships, negative thoughts, and emotional distress.

The goal of DBT is to create harmony and balance with contrasting beliefs, lowering thoughts of unaliving, self-harm behaviors, and decrease the intensity of emotional responses.

FAQs

DBT stands for Dialectical Behavior therapy and was created by Marsha Linehan, a psychologist with lived experience with difficulties with intense emotions and navigating self-harming behaviors.
DBT Trainings are easily accessible from various organizations such as PESI, Psychwire, Behavioral Tech Institute, and more. There are different variations including for parents, children, teens, etc. DBT “to fidelity” involves a treatment team and various protocols. In this practice, I engage in DBT-informed treatment on an individual basis.
This will vary from person to person. It varies depending on relationships to many factors. Typically, I blend DBT concepts and skills in a talk therapy and skill practicing therapeutic environment. Sometimes, I use DBT skill building as a part of the process for utilizing EMDR therapy. I use DBT as part of the resourcing and stabilization process.