We run an online 24-week DBT Skills Group for Adults. In the group we teach skills related to mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal skills, and mental flexibility. DBT is the gold standard treatment for people with BPD. And has been found to be effective for people coping with ADHD, emotional dysregulation, biopolar depression, and eating disorders. If you are interested in enrolling or have questions feel free to contact us.
Hosted by Wise Mind Psychological Services, Toronto
Psychologist, MEd, CPsych
Group meets in Toronto, ON M6S
We run an online 24-week DBT Skills Group for Adults. In the group we teach skills related to mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal skills, and mental flexibility. DBT is the gold standard treatment for people with BPD. And has been found to be effective for people coping with ADHD, emotional dysregulation, biopolar depression, and eating disorders. If you are interested in enrolling or have questions feel free to contact us.
At Dialectical Living our online DBT psycho-ed groups are powerful ways to learn DBT skills while meeting others who share in similar struggles. We pride ourselves on making learning DBT fun and interactive using: PowerPoints, videos, role-plays, white boarding, discussions, activities and games. Our online group is no less interactive using Zoom Telehealth where we have breakout rooms with smaller group discussions and activities. The group facilitators are passionate about their work and truly enjoy helping clients make positive changes in their lives. You can have joy and peacefulness in your life once you've learned DBT skills.
Many of my clients have BPD traits, depression and anxiety and may have experienced trauma in their lives.
At Dialectical Living our online DBT psycho-ed groups are powerful ways to learn DBT skills while meeting others who share in similar struggles. We pride ourselves on making learning DBT fun and interactive using: PowerPoints, videos, role-plays, white boarding, discussions, activities and games. Our online group is no less interactive using Zoom Telehealth where we have breakout rooms with smaller group discussions and activities. The group facilitators are passionate about their work and truly enjoy helping clients make positive changes in their lives. You can have joy and peacefulness in your life once you've learned DBT skills.
12 week x 90 minute online DBT skills group for high emotional dysregulation that negatively affects your life: Learn to read your body like it's a stress barometer, identify 'in the moment' urges and ways to overcome them, and ultimately identify and deconstruct triggers so you can know yourself better. New groups start regularly and include all materials. An audio record will be provided if you miss a session. Fees are billed weekly at $75 each week for 12 weeks; receipts may be turned in to your insurance provider.One individual session (not included in price of group) is required for assessment pre-group.
I work with people who have a high degree of emotional dysregulation - BPD, PTSD, Addictions
12 week x 90 minute online DBT skills group for high emotional dysregulation that negatively affects your life: Learn to read your body like it's a stress barometer, identify 'in the moment' urges and ways to overcome them, and ultimately identify and deconstruct triggers so you can know yourself better. New groups start regularly and include all materials. An audio record will be provided if you miss a session. Fees are billed weekly at $75 each week for 12 weeks; receipts may be turned in to your insurance provider.One individual session (not included in price of group) is required for assessment pre-group.
This group is a safe space for those who struggle with Borderline Personality traits. We offer many varied dropins from learning DBT, social events, mental health community events, art nights and movie nights.
DBT is an evidenced based therapy for persons with BPD traits and other disorders where emotion regulation is a challenge.
This group is a safe space for those who struggle with Borderline Personality traits. We offer many varied dropins from learning DBT, social events, mental health community events, art nights and movie nights.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) helps people who experience unstable and intense negative emotions. DBT Skills Groups teach a range of skills that you use to better regulate your emotions and behaviours. You are taught how to identify and label intense emotions and how to manage your feelings with behavioural strategies.
Hosted by Dr. Shelley McMain - Centre for MindBody Health
Psychologist, PhD, CPsych
Group meets in Toronto, ON M5N
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) helps people who experience unstable and intense negative emotions. DBT Skills Groups teach a range of skills that you use to better regulate your emotions and behaviours. You are taught how to identify and label intense emotions and how to manage your feelings with behavioural strategies.
DBT Virtual's online 12-week group program is designed to provide you with effective, practical coping strategies to regulate intense emotions and replace unhealthy, problematic behaviours. You will learn DBT skills aimed at managing emotional and interpersonal difficulties, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Group members are expected to complete weekly homework tasks that help them solidify their skills practice. Adult and adolescent groups available. To register contact us or visit www.dbtvirtual.com/dbt-skills-group. Sliding scale rates available upon request for those in financial need.
Hosted by DBT Virtual - DBT Program in ON, BC, AB & NS
Registered Social Worker, MSW
Group meets in Toronto, ON M4W
DBT Virtual's online 12-week group program is designed to provide you with effective, practical coping strategies to regulate intense emotions and replace unhealthy, problematic behaviours. You will learn DBT skills aimed at managing emotional and interpersonal difficulties, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Group members are expected to complete weekly homework tasks that help them solidify their skills practice. Adult and adolescent groups available. To register contact us or visit www.dbtvirtual.com/dbt-skills-group. Sliding scale rates available upon request for those in financial need.
In our DBT skills group, we teach the following skills: Distress Tolerance (surviving crisis situations without making them worse), Emotion Regulation (improving management of emotions over the long-term), Interpersonal Effectiveness (achieving your goals in relationships), and Mindfulness (improving control over your attention and activity of your mind).
In our DBT skills group, we teach the following skills: Distress Tolerance (surviving crisis situations without making them worse), Emotion Regulation (improving management of emotions over the long-term), Interpersonal Effectiveness (achieving your goals in relationships), and Mindfulness (improving control over your attention and activity of your mind).
DBT Virtual's online 12-week group program is designed to teach adolescents (ages 14-17) and parents/guardians effective, practical coping strategies to regulate intense emotions and replace unhealthy, problematic behaviours. You will learn DBT skills to manage emotional and interpersonal difficulties, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Our program involves educating adolescents and caregivers on coping skills to assist the adolescent in using their skills and promote best outcomes in their therapy. To register contact us or visit www.dbtvirtual.com/dbt-skills-group. Sliding scale rates available upon request for those in financial need.
Hosted by DBT Virtual - DBT Program in ON, BC, AB & NS
Registered Social Worker, MSW
Group meets in Toronto, ON M4S
DBT Virtual's online 12-week group program is designed to teach adolescents (ages 14-17) and parents/guardians effective, practical coping strategies to regulate intense emotions and replace unhealthy, problematic behaviours. You will learn DBT skills to manage emotional and interpersonal difficulties, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Our program involves educating adolescents and caregivers on coping skills to assist the adolescent in using their skills and promote best outcomes in their therapy. To register contact us or visit www.dbtvirtual.com/dbt-skills-group. Sliding scale rates available upon request for those in financial need.
Informal peer group
Many of my clients have BPD traits, depression and anxiety and may have experienced trauma in their lives.
Informal peer group
*TBD, please waitlist yourself for registration.* The Family and Friends Group is a 13-week group designed for those who have relationships with individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder ( BPD) or are otherwise challenged with emotional dysregulation. Through education, skills training and network building, you will learn how to navigate your relationships and support your own and your loved one's well-being.
Hosted by Dr. Shelley McMain - Centre for MindBody Health
Psychologist, PhD, CPsych
Group meets in Toronto, ON M5N
*TBD, please waitlist yourself for registration.* The Family and Friends Group is a 13-week group designed for those who have relationships with individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder ( BPD) or are otherwise challenged with emotional dysregulation. Through education, skills training and network building, you will learn how to navigate your relationships and support your own and your loved one's well-being.
This group is for family members who have loved ones with Borderline Personality Disorder. We support families who are often left feeling helpless and frustrated with their loved ones. We help you to find compassion for yourself and your loved one and teach skills to help you cope.
DBT is an evidenced based therapy for persons with BPD traits and other disorders where emotion regulation is a challenge.
This group is for family members who have loved ones with Borderline Personality Disorder. We support families who are often left feeling helpless and frustrated with their loved ones. We help you to find compassion for yourself and your loved one and teach skills to help you cope.
In our DBT skills group for adolescents, we teach the following skills: Distress Tolerance (surviving crisis situations without making them worse), Emotion Regulation (improving management of emotions over the long-term), Interpersonal Effectiveness (achieving your goals in relationships), Mindfulness (improving control over your attention and activity of your mind), and Walking the Middle Path (navigating difficulties that come up in adolescents and their families). Each adolescent attends the group with a parent/caregiver, ensuring that their family environment also learns how to support the adolescent in skills use.
In our DBT skills group for adolescents, we teach the following skills: Distress Tolerance (surviving crisis situations without making them worse), Emotion Regulation (improving management of emotions over the long-term), Interpersonal Effectiveness (achieving your goals in relationships), Mindfulness (improving control over your attention and activity of your mind), and Walking the Middle Path (navigating difficulties that come up in adolescents and their families). Each adolescent attends the group with a parent/caregiver, ensuring that their family environment also learns how to support the adolescent in skills use.
Join our free biweekly Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills webinars led by our trained DBT experts, who will review a new DBT skill each session to help you gain better emotion control, improve your relationships, and increase your overall well-being — all for free! This is part of our mission to increase access to DBT services, including for those who do not have access to therapy. Visit www.dbtvirtual.com/free-dbt-skills to register. Please note that these webinars do not qualify as or replace therapy. Looking for therapy instead? Visit www.dbtvirtual.com.
Hosted by DBT Virtual - DBT Program in ON, BC, AB & NS
Registered Social Worker, MSW
Group meets in Toronto, ON M4W
Join our free biweekly Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills webinars led by our trained DBT experts, who will review a new DBT skill each session to help you gain better emotion control, improve your relationships, and increase your overall well-being — all for free! This is part of our mission to increase access to DBT services, including for those who do not have access to therapy. Visit www.dbtvirtual.com/free-dbt-skills to register. Please note that these webinars do not qualify as or replace therapy. Looking for therapy instead? Visit www.dbtvirtual.com.
We have several groups at Dialectical Living including: for persons with emotion dysregulation, family and friends of, DBT for Couples and a FREE DBT Aftercare group. Our core skills groups are about learning practical life giving skills vs. talking about traumas or problems. We believe learning DBT should be fun and interactive and engaging and we use videos, small group breakouts, home practice teams, games, quizzes and more to keep thing lively, memorable and clients tuned in.
DBT is an evidenced based therapy for persons with BPD traits and other disorders where emotion regulation is a challenge.
We have several groups at Dialectical Living including: for persons with emotion dysregulation, family and friends of, DBT for Couples and a FREE DBT Aftercare group. Our core skills groups are about learning practical life giving skills vs. talking about traumas or problems. We believe learning DBT should be fun and interactive and engaging and we use videos, small group breakouts, home practice teams, games, quizzes and more to keep thing lively, memorable and clients tuned in.
*TBD, please waitlist yourself for registration.* The DBT Graduate Group is a 13-week group for those who have completed at least one full round of a DBT Skills Group (minimum 6 months) and are committed to maintaining their gains, building upon the skills they’ve learned and mastering advanced DBT skills.
Hosted by Dr. Shelley McMain - Centre for MindBody Health
Psychologist, PhD, CPsych
Group meets in Toronto, ON M5N
*TBD, please waitlist yourself for registration.* The DBT Graduate Group is a 13-week group for those who have completed at least one full round of a DBT Skills Group (minimum 6 months) and are committed to maintaining their gains, building upon the skills they’ve learned and mastering advanced DBT skills.
This 6-week Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group is designed to help individuals build emotional resilience, improve interpersonal relationships, and manage distressing emotions effectively. Participants will gain practical tools and insights to navigate life’s challenges and create a more balanced, fulfilling life. This group will take place from March 3 - April 7th. Total Cost = $240.00 ($40/Session)
Hosted by Lindsey Salloway
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), BComm, MACP
Group meets in Toronto, ON M4P
This 6-week Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group is designed to help individuals build emotional resilience, improve interpersonal relationships, and manage distressing emotions effectively. Participants will gain practical tools and insights to navigate life’s challenges and create a more balanced, fulfilling life. This group will take place from March 3 - April 7th. Total Cost = $240.00 ($40/Session)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) helps people who experience unstable and intense negative emotions. DBT Skills Training Group uses a range of strategies for you to learn coping skills that improve the regulation of your emotions and behaviours. You are taught how to identify and label intense emotions and how to manage your feelings with behavioural strategies. There are four skills modules within the group: emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness and interpersonal effectiveness. The completion of all skills modules takes 24 weeks.
Hosted by Dr. Shari Geller - Centre for MindBody Health
Psychologist, PhD, CPsych
Group meets in Toronto, ON M5N
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) helps people who experience unstable and intense negative emotions. DBT Skills Training Group uses a range of strategies for you to learn coping skills that improve the regulation of your emotions and behaviours. You are taught how to identify and label intense emotions and how to manage your feelings with behavioural strategies. There are four skills modules within the group: emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness and interpersonal effectiveness. The completion of all skills modules takes 24 weeks.
Do you often find yourself on an emotional rollercoaster, struggling to get a hold of strong urges and stay in control? This online 12-week DBT skills group is designed to help people with intense emotions, self-defeating thoughts and unhealthy behaviours that get in the way of them feeling and functioning at their best. You will learn DBT skills aimed at managing emotional and interpersonal difficulties, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Group members are expected to complete weekly homework tasks that help them solidify their skills practice. Adult and adolescent groups available.
Do you often find yourself on an emotional rollercoaster, struggling to get a hold of strong urges and stay in control? This online 12-week DBT skills group is designed to help people with intense emotions, self-defeating thoughts and unhealthy behaviours that get in the way of them feeling and functioning at their best. You will learn DBT skills aimed at managing emotional and interpersonal difficulties, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Group members are expected to complete weekly homework tasks that help them solidify their skills practice. Adult and adolescent groups available.
This skills group is divided into four modules: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Clients will learn skills to help them get through crisis situations, to accept the most challenging parts of their lives, to respond rather than react to their emotions, and to ask for things and say no to things in a way that balances taking care of their relationships, while also honouring self-respect. Each session begins with a brief mindfulness exercise, followed by a review of how participants practiced skills during the week, and an interactive lesson to teach a new skill.
Hosted by Equilibrium Mental Health and Wellness
Psychologist, PhD, CPsych, RSW, RP
Group meets in Toronto, ON M6J
This skills group is divided into four modules: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Clients will learn skills to help them get through crisis situations, to accept the most challenging parts of their lives, to respond rather than react to their emotions, and to ask for things and say no to things in a way that balances taking care of their relationships, while also honouring self-respect. Each session begins with a brief mindfulness exercise, followed by a review of how participants practiced skills during the week, and an interactive lesson to teach a new skill.
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Borderline Personality (BPD) Support Groups
What is the most successful approach to treating borderline personality disorder?
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is considered the gold standard of treatment for borderline personality disorder. An evidence-based treatment, it addresses the extreme emotional reactivity, the relationship difficulties, and the acts of self-harm that create so much distress for BPD patients. DBT is a comprehensive program that includes both regular individual psychotherapy sessions and weekly group sessions of skills training.
What happens in treatment of borderline personality disorder?
Treatment typically consists of weekly individual therapy sessions that last an hour and group skill-focused instructional sessions that may last up to two hours. Patients are typically given homework “assignments” in which they are asked to practice in their daily life the skills they acquire in therapy. Patients also keep a diary tracking their emotions and impulses as a way to know which situations are most problematic and to help them gain control over their own behavior. Difficult situations and feelings are typically reviewed in therapy sessions and more constructive solutions found.
What kinds of problems does BPD treatment help with?
DBT was initially developed to dampen the self-destructive impulses of chronically suicidal patients. It is now the treatment of choice for borderline personality disorder, a serious condition marked by extreme emotional reactivity, relationship instability, and self-injurious behaviors. Treatment of BPD helps patients tolerate the flux of emotions without acting on them, often with a specific focus on tolerating negative emotions. DBT addresses the core problems of BPD—fear of abandonment, low self-esteem, and impulsivity.
What is the goal of treatment in borderline personality disorder?
The goal of treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD) is to relieve the extreme emotional distress that patients experience—to curb their emotional reactivity, to minimize their inclination to self-harm, and to reduce their impulsivity. Toward these ends, patients are not only taught an array of new coping skills and techniques for emotional regulation, they are given opportunities to practice them. Another major goal of treatment is interpersonal effectiveness; patients learn and problem-solve ways to effectively communicate in relationships, especially how to ask for what they need as a way to minimize hurt feelings.