What is DBT?
DBT is a life-saving treatment effective for recovery from suicide, self-harm, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, eating disorders and substance abuse.
DBT is a structured therapy that teaches over 100 skills.
Skills for managing overwhelming emotions, building healthy relationships and getting through crises without making things worse.
What's the process? How do I "do" DBT?
What's the process? How do I "do" DBT?
A comprehensive DBT program involves:
You would meet with Diana weekly for one on one sessions, applying DBT Skills to your current life events.
Everyone in full DBT attends our Weekly DBT Groups. Even people who don’t think they’ll like a “therapy group” usually love these classes.
If you are in full DBT (Individual Therapy & Diana’s DBT groups), you get access to phone coaching. This is NOT therapy by phone, but simply help figuring out what skills to use in the moment.
DBT Skills Phone Coaching
Dialectical Behavior Therapy was developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan
She was looking for an effective treatment for suicide and self-harm. Before the development of DBT, Suicide and self-harm were considered untreatable by most professionals.
In 1998, after extensive research and a massive creative undertaking, Dr. Linehan published her seminal work “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder”, a completely manualized treatment for extinguishing suicidality.
In June 2011, Dr. Linehan revealed in the New York Times that she had been applying her genius to try and find a cure for her own mental illness, for she too had struggled with suicide and self-harm. She described being locked in the psych ward at 18 in a straight-jacket to keep her from hurting herself. She made a promise to herself that if she “got out of hell”, she would go back and get other out too.
Over the ensuing decades, extensive research has proven DBT to be a highly effective treatment for depression, borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, substance abuse and eating disorders.
Take a look at the research listed below.
