Services
Comprehensive DBT
What is Comprehensive DBT?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a cognitive behavioral treatment that helps clients learn specific skills for emotion dysregulation. DBT was originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). DBT is now recognized as the gold standard psychological treatment for this population. Research has now shown that DBT is effective in treating a wide range of other disorders such as depression, anxiety, substance dependence, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and eating disorders.
The main goal of DBT is to help clients build a life worth living.
What differentiates Comprehensive DBT from DBT-informed therapy?
Comprehensive DBT consists of four main components: DBT skills training group, individual treatment, DBT phone coaching, and consultation team.
- DBT skills training group is focused on teaching clients specific skills for managing ineffective behaviors. There are 4 modules: Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. In DBT mindfulness is taught at the beginning of each of the other three modules. Groups meet on a weekly basis for approximately 2 hours and skills training worksheets are assigned in-between sessions. Click here to learn more about the content of each module.
- DBT individual therapy is focused on helping clients find motivation and teaching clients to apply the skills to specific challenges and events in their lives. Sessions are tailored to each individual client’s values and helps clients determine what makes life worth living.
- DBT phone coaching is focused on providing clients with in-the-moment coaching on how to use skills to effectively cope with difficult situations that arise in their everyday lives. Clients can call their individual therapist between sessions to receive coaching at the times when they need help the most.
- DBT therapist consultation team is intended to support DBT providers in their work with clients.
In order for clinicians to say they are providing a comprehensive DBT program, all four components of DBT must be offered.
Neurofeedback
What is Neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback is a process that utilizes your own brainwaves and brain responses to teach your brain how to function more effectively. Sensors are attached to the scalp which measure the brain’s brainwaves. Through re-training software, your brain learns to manipulate those brainwaves to work in a more efficient manner over time.
Our in-house Neurofeedback expert, Elizabeth Stallings can answer any questions you may have about the process:
801-906-0525
We’d love to answer any questions you may have!
