What is DBT?

DBT is a framework of skills developed to help you regulate your life by empowering you with tools so you can regain emotional and situational control. DBT is so effective because it gives you tangible skills in each session that through daily practice, you customize and make your own. 

DBT consists of 4 learning modules which include:

  1. Mindfulness

  2. Distress Tolerance

  3. Emotion Regulation

  4. Interpersonal Effectiveness

With each DBT module you will adopt and refine new skills so that you are able to balance and manage new thoughts as they occur. You'll become so comfortable and familiar using these skills that you integrate them into your daily life which will help you feel stronger and more satisfied.

DBT challenges you to step away from your life's edge and get comfortable seeing things with a compromise of acceptance and change. DBT doesn't ask you to stop doing anything, only to pause and question if your participation in the emotion or situation is yielding you your desired result.

DBT pushes you to grow by changing both your mindset and behaviors. It urges you to learn to accept the things you cannot change and understand that just because you accept something doesn't mean you have to agree with it.

With the skills you learn in DBT, you will feel confident knowing that you can successfully navigate any challenges you encounter in life.

SOURCE: THE LINEHAN INSTITUTE / BEHAVIORALTECH