Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills

Tired of the up and down emotions?

Feel like there's always an emotional rollercoaster?

Impulsive decisions causing consquences?

Too much drama all the time?

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills are very effective skills to help people live a life worth living. DBT skills can help with difficulty regulating emotions, decrease dangerous behaviors, improve communication, making more wise and effective choices, increase awareness to create behavioral change, tolerating distress, and confidence.

DBT Goals are accomplished through these four modules:

Mindfulness
Emotional Regulation
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Distress Tolerance

Heidi Waldoch, MA, LMFT, Gina Daniels, MS, LAMFT Cindy Meyer, MA, LMFT, LADC and Jennifer Knapp, MS, LAMFT, with Bridging Hope Counseling, and Michelle Hunt-Graham, MA, LMFT with Inside Out Life Development, Deb Link, MA, LPCC, LMFT with Link Therapy and Mediation work collaboratively to facilitate DBT Skills Groups for teenage girls, teenage boys and adult female groups.

Current Groups:

Buffalo: Adult Women - Mondays 11:30am to 1:00pm STARTING FEBRUARY 27TH - PLEASE CALL FOR AN INTAKE 763-291-5055

Rogers: Adolescent Girls age 12 - 17 Tuesdays 3:30 - 5:00PM - LIMITED OPENINGS, PLEASE CALL

Rogers: Adolescent Girls age 12 - 17 Mondays 4:00 - 5:30PM - LIMITED OPENINGS, PLEASE CALL

Rogers: Adolescent Boys age 12 - 17 Thursdays 3:30 - 5:00pm - Starts March 22nd - This is a 21 week program This group has openings!! Please call 763-291-5505 for an intake

Buffalo: Adolescent Girls age 12 - 17 Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:30pm - New Group starting March 21st - This group has openings!! Please call 763-291-5505 for an intake

Goals of DBT Skills Group:

Increase Mindfulness
Improve Interpersonal effectiveness
Learn Emotion regulation skills
Increase Distress tolerance abilities
Balance of coping with emotions and solutions
Processing of internal and external information
Balance of feelings and behaviors
Attend to current, near future and distant future

Who Could Attend:

Adolescent girls and boys age 12-17 and Parents will be invited to attend monthly, Adult women's group does not have parent night

Where:

21000 Rogers Drive Suite 200

Rogers, MN 55374

AND

311 Brighton Ave S Suite B

Buffalo, MN 55313

When:

Tuesdays 3:30 to 5:00pm - ran by Heidi & Michelle - Adolescent Girls (Rogers)

Mondays 4:00 to 5:30pm - ran by Deb and Michelle - Adolescent Girls (Rogers)

Thursdays 3:30 - 5:00PM - ran by Jennifer & Cindy - Adolescent Boys (Rogers) - New Group starting March 22nd

Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:30pm - ran by Heidi & Gina - Adolescent Girls (Buffalo) - New Group starting March 21st

Mondays - 11:30am - 1:00pm - ran by Cindy & Jennifer - Adult Women (Buffalo) - Group starting February 27th

Insurance/Cost:

Medical Assistance (MA) Accepted, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Health Partners, Preferred One, TriCare, Behavioral Health Care Providers (UCare, Fairiview, Patient Choice), Medica with an in-network exception, Out-of-Network Insurance Benefits available and Sliding Scale Fee for Service

Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 763-291-5505 to register.

Speaking: If you or your organization is interested in learning more about DBT, we will come to your location to educate about DBT.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
DBT was developed by Marsha M. Linehan to treat people with borderline personality disorder. Research shows that it is also effective to treat people who have difficulty with regulating moods and emotions including self-injury. The four modules of DBT are: mindfulness, emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance. Bridging Hope Counseling Offers DBT groups. Learning and refining skills for changing behavioral, emotional and thinking patterns associated with problems in living or that cause negative consequences, distress or misery.

Questions and resources about DBT:

Bridging Hope Counseling recommends reading...