DBT - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

Ages 15-17 years

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy used with children, teens and adults who have significant difficulty with emotion regulation. DBT seeks to help people understand and accept difficult feelings, as well as learn skills to manage feelings and create positive change in their life. The four pillars of DBT are mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. The current group will be run by a psychotherapist and will focus on ‘Emotion Regulation’. Emotion regulation skills help teens to feel less emotionally vulnerable and feel more in command of their emotions. This group seeks to help teens understand the emotions they experience, reduce emotional vulnerability, decrease the frequency of unwanted emotions, and decrease emotional suffering. Teens must be comfortable in a group setting of 1:5 ratio