DBT & CBT

If you are struggling to create the skills necessary for regulating your emotions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) may be for you. With this model, we use a mindfulness approach to help you go beyond developing insights into why you behave, think, and feel the way you do and create new behaviors critical to living a life that feels worth living.

“Behavior” refers to anything a person thinks, feels, or does. DBT and CBT use a variety of techniques to help you change your behaviors and build a “toolbox” of skills. These skills are useful in helping you manage your emotions. These difficulties may manifest in a variety of ways, including self-destructive or self-injurious behavior, anger management problems, binge eating, ongoing relationship conflicts, and self-hatred.

DBT is a mindfulness-based therapy that balances the use of change strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy along with acceptance strategies. DBT asserts that pervasive problems in managing emotions arise, in part, from not having the necessary skills. Therefore, DBT includes weekly skills training designed to remedy those deficits. Skills learned through DBT assist with better management of emotions, relationships, distress, and focusing on the present moment. Most importantly, when in DBT, you work on applying the skills to your particular problems and goals.