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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills

 

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.

Michelle Hunt-Graham, MA, LMFT with Inside Out Life Development, Deb Link, MA, LPCC, LMFT with Link Therapy and Mediation, and Heidi Waldoch, MA, LMFT with Bridging Hope Counseling team up to offer 20-week DBT Skills Groups for teenage girls and adult female groups.

 

Openings:

 

Adolescent Girls age 12 - 17

We currently have openings for an adolescent girls DBT skills group.  Groups are held on Tuesdays from 3:30 - 5:00pm.   

 

Current Groups:

 

Currently, we have 2 adolescent girls group.  We have a Monday night group from 4:00pm to 5:30pm.  This group is ran by Michelle Hunt-Graham and Deb Link.  We also have a group on Tuesday from 3:30pm to 5:00pm.  Please inquiry if interested.

 

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

 

 

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 age 11-17 and Parents will be invited to attend monthly

Where:

21000 Rogers Drive Suite 200

Rogers, MN 55374

When:

Tuesdays 3:30 to 5:00pm, started November - Adolescent Group

Mondays 4:00 to 5:30pm, started December - Adolescent Group

Insurance/Cost

Medical Assistance (MA) Accepted, Health Partners, Out-of-Network Insurance Benefits available and Sliding Scale Fee for Service 

 

 

Michelle Hunt-Graham, MA, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.  Her website is www.insideoutlifedevelopment.com and her phone number is 612-750-0011.  She can be contacted to register for groups as well.

 

Deb Link, MA, LPCC, LMFT is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.  Her website is www.linktherapyandmediation.com and her phone number is 763-269-6048.  She also can be contacted to register for the groups.

 

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

 

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.

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