Do you feel like you can’t control your emotions? Are you feeling stuck in certain patterns of behavior or ways of thinking? Do your relationships feel like they’re always in conflict? Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a skills-based treatment that helps people improve their emotions, behaviors, and relationships by focusing on four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

 

In DBT you can expect to learn skills that will help you manage difficult situations, change emotions that are causing you trouble, ask for help and/or set effective boundaries, and improve your awareness of the present moment. All DBT skills are taught with the goal of being as effective as possible when faced with challenging emotions and situations.

Change in happens when your emotions feel more in your control, when you're taking care of yourself and your needs on a regular basis, and when you are feeling more aware and capable of managing difficult situations.