Transformative Journey Group
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Transformative Journey: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Group
The Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Group is focused on helping clients gain skills and practice tools designed to manage intense emotions effectively.
The main topics include emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance and mindfulness.
Individuals must be pre-screened to determine appropriateness for this cash-only DBT group.
If enrolled, they must also be engaged in individual counseling at the same time.
It requires a commitment of 8 weeks.
This evidence-based psychotherapy program is designed to treat adolescents and adults, who exhibit difficulty regulating their emotions and behavior.
Through a supportive and validating therapeutic environment, behavioral skills are developed to improve impulse control, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and overall functioning.
It replaces harmful ways of thinking and behaving with healthier ones.
Below are the Goals of DBT:
- To decrease behaviors that interfere with treatment (i.e. lack of compliance, passivity).
- To decrease suicidal, non-suicidal self-injury behaviors and other problematic behaviors (e.g., binging/purging, school truancy, substance abuse, etc.)
- To increase the ability to regulate emotions and behavior.
- To teach the ability to “think down the middle,” or to see both sides of an issue.
Is Dialectical Behavior Therapy right for you?
Do you frequently have thoughts that you would be better off dead, or made suicide attempts? Do you engage in frequent impulsive or self-destructive behaviors (cutting, substance abuse, binging and purging, school truancy)? Do you have frequent and intense shifts in mood?
Do you have frequent problems managing anger, or frequent and intense conflict with peers and/or family members? Do you ever dissociate or fear that others are purposely out to harm you? Do you at times have intense feelings of emptiness? Do you have an unclear sense of who you are or where you are headed?
If you answered yes to one, or more, of these questions, our treatment program may help you.
The DBT Skills we implement are:
Mindfulness: The ability to observe and experience the present moment without judgment. Individuals learn to notice their emotions and to experience them— without always acting upon them.
Emotion Regulation: Helping teens and their caregivers learn behavioral and cognitive techniques for reducing their vulnerability to, and enhancing their ability to cope with, overwhelming emotion.
Interpersonal Effectiveness: Assertiveness and communications skills are emphasized with the aim of helping individuals achieve their goals, maintain healthy relationships, and maintain their self-respect even after conflicts.
Distress Tolerance: Helping teens and their families learn ways to get through difficult moments without making impulsive decisions they may regret.
Walking the Middle Path: Learning to live a more balanced life and avoid the emotional and behavioral extremes that frequently lead to stress.