Grounded in mindfulness and behavioral therapy, DBT teaches skills to manage intense emotions.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective, evidence-based approach designed to help individuals manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and navigate life’s challenges with greater ease. Originally developed to treat borderline personality disorder, DBT has evolved into a versatile therapy that benefits people experiencing a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and stress.
DBT combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices to help individuals balance acceptance and change. Through DBT, clients learn practical skills in four key areas:
Mindfulness: Developing awareness of the present moment and cultivating non-judgmental acceptance.
Distress Tolerance: Building resilience to cope with difficult emotions and situations without making them worse.
Emotion Regulation: Understanding and managing intense emotions more effectively.
Interpersonal Effectiveness: Navigating relationships with clarity, assertiveness, and respect.
At Simply Centered Therapy, we offer DBT in a compassionate, validating environment where you can build the tools to create meaningful change in your life. Whether in individual sessions, group therapy, or workshops, our goal is to support you in finding balance, achieving growth, and living fully.
We provide the following DBT Therapies
Adult DBT
Adults who may benefit from DBT engage in problematic behaviors that may or may not be risky, interfere with relationships, cause harm to self and or others. These behaviors may result in conflict, avoidance, substance use, unstable relationships, spending, and misuse of food.
Teen DBT
Teens who may benefit from DBT engage in problematic behaviors that may or may not be risky, interfere with relationships, cause harm to self and or others. These behaviors may result in conflict with family/friends/teachers, lying, avoidance of school/work/parents/friends , substance use, unstable relationships, spending, sneaking out, misuse of social media, and misuse of food.
*Both Adult and Teen DBT include weekly individual and group skills participation.
Child DBT
Children who may benefit from DBT engage in problematic behaviors that may or may not be risky, interfere with relationships, cause harm to self and or others. These behaviors may result in temper tantrums, outbursts, conflicts with family/friends/teachers, avoidance of chores/hygiene tasks/parents/friends, excessive gaming, difficulty going to sleep alone, lying, hiding, spending, and misuse of food.