Are you experiencing overwhelming emotions?
Do you want to find a way to reduce your suffering? What would it be like to turn suffering into ordinary pain?
How would your life be different if you could eliminate suffering?That's just what Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is. It is a set of tools to implement a lifestyle change that may ultimately lead to the elimination of suffering. Developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan and her colleagues at the University of Washington, DBT is a contemporary cognitive behavioral clinical treatment that offers evidence-based techniques to improve treatment resistant symptoms and behaviors usually associated with Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar disorders, depression, anxiety, attention & concentration problems, and self esteem.
Ultimately, DBT strives to improve mindfulness; thereby increasing enjoyment here and now in this very moment. Mindfulness is used as a lens to address distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Find out more about DBT directly from The Linehan Institute Behavioral Tech |
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Core MindfulnessCore mindfulness skills are the building blocks of DBT. Mindfulness practice comes from eastern meditative practices that increase your ability to be in the current moment--the here-and-now. Increased mindfulness allows you to effectively reduce your vulnerability to stress.
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Distress ToleranceDistress tolerance skills are practices that reduce our vulnerability to crises. In short, they are crisis survival skills. These skills allow us to make it through the crisis without making the problem or situation worse. In developing distress tolerance skills, many people find they gain tools to increase acceptance. These skills allow you to develop mindful practices that give you mini-breaks from crises you cannot control.
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Emotion RegulationEmotion regulation skills are essential to decreasing our vulnerability to painful or difficult emotions. Emotions are valuable, and learning how to decipher the messages emotions give you is an important part of soothing and or managing emotions. Emotion dysregulation perpetuates suffering. By finding ways to balance emotions with mindfulness you may be able to make decisions and behave more effectively.
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Interpersonal EffectivenessIt's difficult to navigate effective relationships with ourselves, let alone other people . There are barriers to interpersonal effectiveness that get in the way of our relationships, for example our inability to trust ourselves, past disappointment in relationships, or our tendencies to prolong destructive relationships for fear of being alone. Interpersonal effectiveness skills focus on improving, maintaining relationships, and even ending destructive relationships.
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