Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Group

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills group has a class-like format and is designed to enhance your abilities to manage painful emotions and develop more effective coping skills. The course follows Marsha Linehan’s DBT skills curriculum.

The course will cover four modules:

Mindfulness: Skills to focus on the present, reduce judgement of thoughts, and gain greater control over your thinking. Mindfulness skills are at the core of each of the modules.
Emotion Regulation: Skills to improve your ability to change and cope effectively with emotions, rather than being controlled by your emotional state.
Distress Tolerance: Skills to manage your crises and sit with difficult emotions without making the situation/your problems worse.
Interpersonal Effectiveness: Skills to get your needs met in relationships while attending to and improving those relationships.

DBT groups can be helpful for people who struggle with mood swings, coping with strong emotions, have frequent difficulties in their relationships and have thoughts they cannot stop. They can also be especially useful for people who engage in destructive or impulsive behaviors, such as substance abuse, self-harm, overspending, etc.

The group will focus on learning and applying the skills reviewed, rather than processing stressors. There will be assignments to complete over the week in order to practice the skills and these assignments will be reviewed in the following group to address any barriers getting in the way of doing the work.

Group members come away with new skills to better their day-to-day life and a binder full of reference materials.

The group will be led by Dr. Joey Sergi, who has extensive training and experience facilitating DBT skills groups. All prospective participants will undergo a brief screening to gauge if the group will be a good fit for their particular goals.

Group runs Tuesdays 6:30PM-7:45PM
Virtual
$150/session
7 month total duration
Cycles every 7 months with rolling start dates, please inquire about current availability