DBT Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a behavioral treatment method developed by Marsha Linehan, PhD, ABPP. It's the therapeutic platform from which we provide individual psychotherapy and group skills training sessions which are designed to ensure clients learn and use new skills and strategies to cultivate a life worth living. At The Redpoint Center, our therapeutic goal is to develop skills like mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness for each of our clients, and subsequently empower them to create a new reality for themselves.

The clinical team at the Redpoint Center knows that clients need to apply new recovery skills in order to modify behaviors and establish healthy habits. This is why our clients participate in experiential groups. These groups take an individual out of education and into the application. Common examples found in our treatment setting include equine therapy, adventure-based therapy, yoga, mindfulness-based activities, and role-play exercises in psychodrama therapy.

Relapse, like recovery, is not a singular event; it is a process. Taking on a new way of thinking is no small task. In response to this, our team teaches mindfulness-based skills to our clients to ensure behavior modifications stick. Mindfulness serves as a powerful anchor to the present moment and to the reality that an individual is safe in the here and now. This is key when it comes to addiction and substance abuse as using substances as a way to escape the present moment will not fix but only accentuate a distressful presenting issue.