In this 5 week group participants are introduced to the four main DBT skills: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Participants can expect experiential learning and at home practice. Please feel free to send me an email to learn more about the program and when the next group begins.
Hosted by Rachel Sansone
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in London, ON N6G
ACT, MBCT, & DBT are effective treatments for a variety of mental health challenges including stress, anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, and more.
Do difficult thoughts or feelings prevent you from reaching your potential? Are you looking for practical skills to get you out of your head and into your life? Therapy is about helping you reach your goals, whatever they might be. As a therapist, I build on your inner strengths and resources by providing empathetic and nonjudgmental therapy. Sessions are insight driven and experiential allowing you to discover and develop new ways of understanding yourself while learning practical coping strategies. I work with adults and youth in the community and with Western students on campus.
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Dialectical Behavior (DBT) Support Groups
Who is DBT for?
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is designed for people who experience extreme emotional suffering because they lack the skills of emotion regulation and distress tolerance. The basic affliction can underlie a wide range of conditions, from borderline and other personality disorders to PTSD and treatment-resistant anxiety and depression. The therapy is helpful to those whose emotional reactivity is so intense it is disruptive to everyday functioning and leads to frequent crises.
Why do people need DBT?
The ability to regulate emotions is a core psychological skill that enables people to function in life and pay attention to the world outside themselves; it is consistently associated with well-being. DBT is designed to help people learn how to manage and regulate their emotions. Originally developed to treat people with borderline personality disorder whose extreme emotional suffering led to self-harming behaviour and suicide attempts, the therapy is now applied to other conditions involving emotion dysregulation, particularly when other treatments have failed.
What happens in DBT?
Individuals meet weekly with their therapist to discuss their experiences relating to moods, behaviour, and skills. Using checklists they maintain, they review emotional experiences and positive practices they engage in. The diaries help individuals discern what led up to a specific problem encountered, this is followed by discussion of the consequences of their actions. In addition, individuals may meet in class-like small groups to learn skills such as mindfulness, emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
How long does DBT last?
Because it is intended to establish long-lasting behavioural change among those with persistent problems, DBT is designed to last six months to a year. DBT includes both weekly sessions of individual therapy and weekly skills-training sessions conducted in small groups. Studies of DBT have documented improvement within a year of treatment, particularly in controlling self-harmful behaviour; nevertheless, individuals may require therapy for several years.