Wisdom Tradition is excited to now offer a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy ( DBT) group, largely CBT skills-based group therapy. Research indicates it is highly effective in helping people who experience a variety of symptoms and behaviors associated with personality disorders, self-injury, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and other mood disorders. You will learn specific skills that are broken down into four modules: mindfulness skills, distress tolerance skills, emotion regulation skills, and interpersonal effectiveness skills.
Hosted by Wisdom Traditions Counseling & Wellness
Counselor, PhD, LPCS, CDCS, MAC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Anchorage, AK 99518
Our specialties include, CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, and Trauma-sensitive Care.
The world grows more complex every day, changing how we live our lives, and it's bringing up a lot of stress and anxiety. We get it. The Wisdom Team provides highly respectful, confidential and individualized treatment choices for you or your family member. We also have counselors specifically dedicated for marriage and family issues. Our Addiction Recovery program is nationally accredited, and provides a warm, informal and rewarding experience for personal growth. We are in this together. Our vision is to positively impact our community; one person...one family at a time.
This group is an online group that will provide an opportunity to share with other folx who identfy as on the trans fem spectrum. Come meet other folx and share with each other. This group meets biweekly and explores gender identity in a safe small psychotherapy group.
Hosted by Margie Thomson (She Her Hers)
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Juneau, AK 99801
Are you looking for a safe place to explore your gender identity? Are you a parent or partner adjusting to the identity of your loved one? We offer a gender affirming, safe and confidential place for folx to explore and discover their journey and authenticity. I hope to create a safe space for you to work with some of the issues or situations that have entered into your life, or make sense of things that have happened in the past. Working from a gender affirming, strength based approach, I believe that we all can reach our goals and aspirations with support and be empowered to be our authentic selves.
This process group is for youth ages 12-18, and those who identify as transgender, gender expansive, gender queer. Come meet others in our Juneau community! It will be and interactive closed group for the confidentiality and safety of the group members.
Hosted by Margie Thomson (She Her Hers)
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Juneau, AK 99801
Are you looking for a safe place to explore your gender identity? Are you a parent or partner adjusting to the identity of your loved one? We offer a gender affirming, safe and confidential place for folx to explore and discover their journey and authenticity. I hope to create a safe space for you to work with some of the issues or situations that have entered into your life, or make sense of things that have happened in the past. Working from a gender affirming, strength based approach, I believe that we all can reach our goals and aspirations with support and be empowered to be our authentic selves.
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Dialectical Behavior (DBT) Support Groups
Who is DBT for?
Dialectical Behavior 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 behavior 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, behavior, 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 behavioral 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 behavior; nevertheless, individuals may require therapy for several years.