Groups

The Fearless Living DBT Skills Group for adults is a 6-month long group teaching practical skills and strategies to manage intense emotions, develop self-control and self-awareness and build more stable relationships. Using established concepts and exercises, participants learn effective ways to live in line with their values and achieve their goals. Topics include mindfulness, effective communication, coping with overwhelming emotions, and handling distress. Using examples from participants’ lives, this group teaches specific skills and strategies for success.

The Fearless Living Alumni DBT Skills Group for adults is for individuals who have completed at least two full rounds of the Fearless Living DBT Skills Group. This group focuses on strengthening, generalizing, and deepening practice of DBT skills and concepts. Topics include mindfulness, effective communication, coping with overwhelming emotions, and handling distress. Using examples from participants’ lives, this group teaches participants to consistently apply specific skills across all areas of their lives.

Break Through is a 15-week DBT skills group for adolescents ages 13-17. This group focuses on helping teens master the challenging bridge from adolescence to adulthood, and teaches practical skills and strategies to manage intense emotions, develop self-control and self-awareness, and build more stable relationships. Using established concepts and exercises, adolescent participants learn effective ways to live in line with their values and achieve their goals. Topics include mindfulness, effective communication, coping with overwhelming emotions, and handling distress. Using examples from participants’ lives, this group teaches specific skills and strategies for success.

The DBT Parenting Skills Workshop is a 2-hour seminar designed to teach parents the techniques and verbal cues to support the ongoing use of strategies their children are learning. This workshop is open to any parents looking for techniques to help their children learn mood regulation and interpersonal skills. Parents of adolescent DBT group participants are required to attend this seminar.