I offer three DBT skills groups. The Parenting group meets virtually on Mondays from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for 10 weeks on a rotating two-weeks-on, two-weeks-off model with optional family sessions. The Teen group meets in person on Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:05 PM for 18 weeks. The Adult group meets in person on Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 12:05 PM for 18 weeks. All groups cover the five DBT modules: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Middle Path, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Registration is required. Visit www.veryuniquewellness.com/dbtgroups
I offer three DBT skills groups. The Parenting group meets virtually on Mondays from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for 10 weeks on a rotating two-weeks-on, two-weeks-off model with optional family sessions. The Teen group meets in person on Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:05 PM for 18 weeks. The Adult group meets in person on Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 12:05 PM for 18 weeks. All groups cover the five DBT modules: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Middle Path, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Registration is required. Visit www.veryuniquewellness.com/dbtgroups
This small group aims to provide education about healthy methods of communication & boundary setting, as well as tools to build more fulfilling relationships with others & yourself. For adults to help you identify your personal communication style, learn how to express needs within relationships, better navigate emotions & interpersonal challenges and group discussion gives real life practice. Cost is $40 per group.
Hosted by April Lynn Jones
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, MS, LPCC-S
Group meets in Florence, KY 41042
This small group aims to provide education about healthy methods of communication & boundary setting, as well as tools to build more fulfilling relationships with others & yourself. For adults to help you identify your personal communication style, learn how to express needs within relationships, better navigate emotions & interpersonal challenges and group discussion gives real life practice. Cost is $40 per group.
Online Groups
In DBT Skills Group you’ll learn: Core Mindfulness Skills, Emotion Regulation Skills, Distress Tolerance Skills, Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills. For those struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma/PTSD, substance misuse, relationship challenges, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, or with other difficulties managing emotions and relationships, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment that can help you reduce your distress, cope more effectively, and create a life worth living.
In DBT Skills Group you’ll learn: Core Mindfulness Skills, Emotion Regulation Skills, Distress Tolerance Skills, Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills. For those struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma/PTSD, substance misuse, relationship challenges, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, or with other difficulties managing emotions and relationships, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment that can help you reduce your distress, cope more effectively, and create a life worth living.
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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.