This group knits together a quality group experience -- characterized by self-reflection, courage, and support-- with skills from a range of therapies with research support for trauma, depression, anxiety, and BPD. You'll learn DBT skills, CBT skills, and how to think and feel your way through difficult interpersonal dynamics. I'm actively seeking participants who are curious about this group format, and the details of when we will meet are TBD. I'd love to hear from you if you'd like to learn more.
I am committed to helping those who seek greater understanding, connection, and stability in relationships with self and others. Specialty areas include depression, anxiety, attachment, young adult development, leadership, and BPD spectrum. I love applying advances in research to how I think about my patients' care. My work is informed by relational psychodynamic and cognitive/behavioral approaches (including ACT, DBT, CBT), and by my background in yoga, somatics, and mindfulness. Above all, I think my job is to listen really well, while bringing curiosity, challenge, and kindness toward your unique human experience.
We are a person-centered trauma focused practice that provides narrative therapies, EMDR, IFS work combined with a wide array of holistic practices including Yoga, Breathwork, Reiki, Acupuncture and Cranial Sacral therapies to name but a few. We offer individual, groups, couples and Intensive Outpatient services.
Hosted by Institute for Trauma Recovery & Resiliency
Treatment Center, BS
Verified Verified
Group meets in Colchester, VT 05446
We are a trauma informed practice that treats trauma and the associated complexities such as addiction and mental health with a variety of narrative approaches such as EMDR, DBT and CBT.
If you have past trauma that has led to feelings of lessened self-worth, despair and hopelessness, if your trauma has led you to various addictive behaviors and other mental health diagnoses such as depression and anxiety, if you want to move to a healthier happier place in your life, if you are committed to individual outpatient therapy or intensive outpatient services then the Institute for Trauma Recovery and Resiliency is for you.
Struggling to co-parent with your ex? Wanting to work to make it easier for each other and the kids? In this 13 week virtual group, participants will learn DBT skills for Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness and Crisis survival that can help to improve communication, de-escalate stressors and improve co-parenting.
I utilize an integrated approach to therapy and am trained in a variety of treatment modalities including; Psychodynamic, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
In our work together, I will create a non-judgmental, affirming, explorative and collaborative space. I practice from a relational approach, bringing my whole self to our therapy and am not simply a "blank slate". I believe in therapy as a space for change and will work with you to identify your goals and very intentionally move toward them together.
Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) is a new evidence-based treatment characterized by excessive self-control, often referred to as overcontrol (OC). RO DBT develops a skill set which increases Openness to new experience, Flexible-control in order to adapt to changing environmental conditions and Intimacy and social-connectedness. The class will be offered in-person and via Telehealth. It will start in July 2025. The length of the class is approximately 6 months.
Hosted by Elena Nichols
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Burlington, VT 05401
I work with people with multiple cultural backgrounds and have led therapeutic Gaming group, Women’s empowerment group, Grief groups and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy classes.
At this moment, I accept only clients who are interested in Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy class. I don't have availability for individual therapy.
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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.