The goal of DBT Skills Training is to help clients learn how to change behaviours, emotions, and thoughts. Emotion Regulation teaches clients why emotions are important, how to identify exactly what emotion you are feeling, and how to change unwanted emotions. This module is 9-weeks in duration.

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About

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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a cognitive behavioural style of treatment that is recognized as the gold standard psychological treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Skills training groups teach the client new skills to manage emotions, urges, and interpersonal interactions more effectively. Each group skills training session is run like a class. After a brief mindfulness practice, the previous weeks’ content is reviewed, homework (to practice skills) is shared, new skills are taught, and new homework is assigned. Individual therapy helps the client apply the skills learned in the group more effectively in their own lives, using a specific framework to do so. Phone coaching gives the client access to support from their individual therapist through the week outside of sessions. Phone coaching sessions typically last approximately 5 minutes.

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Times and Dates

 

The next group for Emotion Regulation (ER) will be offered in October 2023; see the schedule below:

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• Monday nights: Oct 23 - Dec 10  | 6:30 - 8:30 pm 
   

• Friday mornings: Oct 20 - Dec 15 | 9:00 - 11:00 am 

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For more information or to begin the intake process, please click here to be directed to our self-referral form, or give us a call at 902.431.1721.