Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a skills-based therapy that helps individuals to increase self-compassion, learn to work with difficult emotions and live healthier, more stable lives. DBT clients learn to lead themselves through whatever difficulties life brings. This evidence-based therapy helps people to better understand their emotions and work with these emotions to feel more grounded in themselves, their relationships and at work. Our clients learn practical tools to become more emotionally regulated, to skillfully manage times of distress and to create longer lasting and deeper relationships.

Is DBT Right For Me?

DBT would be a very helpful therapy for people who struggle with:
  • Overwhelming anger, anxiety, fear or sadness that interferes with life at home or at work
  • Difficulty building and maintaining stable relationships
  • Feelings of emptiness, hopelessness, loneliness or fear of being alone
  • Ruminating thoughts about the past and what you should have done
  • Difficulty seeing the positive aspects of life

How can DBT help me?

Distress Tolerance

Distress Tolerance skills help individuals to cope with painful events and to soften the effects of upsetting circumstances. Instead of learning to avoid stressful situations, DBT helps individuals to accept, find meaning for, and effectively work through difficult situations.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find 
all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

How effective is DBT?

DBT is a highly researched, evidence-based treatment. Research has shown DBT to be effective in reducing depression, anxiety, worthlessness, low self-esteem, anger, suicidal behavior, self-harm, psychiatric hospitalization, and improving social and global functioning.