DBT Skills Group For Young Adults and Adults
Are you struggling to manage difficult emotions and unwanted behaviors? Do you feel like you are constantly facing upsetting thoughts and feelings that are holding you back from getting what you want out of life?
Thoughts like:
“I feel worthless” or “I am not good enough”
“Everyone’s against me”
“I’m thinking about hurting myself”
“I feel out of control”
“I can’t stand it when someone’s upset with me!
These thoughts create an overall struggle to build the life you want due to emotions getting in the way. This lack of ability to regulate your emotions may manifest itself by…
– Engaging in unwanted, self-destructive, or harmful behaviors
– Low self-esteem
– Dissatisfaction in your relationships, whether familial, romantic, or friendships
– Difficulty transitioning into a new stage of life and managing change
You are left with feelings of hopelessness, low motivation, and instability.
DBT Skills Group can help
Learn the core skills and concepts of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. These skills help you manage and cope with your struggles in everyday life so that you can build a life worth loving.
With group you can improve your sense of self and increase your autonomy and agency.
It allows you to relate to and experience validation from peers who are experiencing similar life situations, emotions, and difficulties. Studies have shown that this feedback and support has a huge benefit to one’s mental health, recovery and treatment.
We learn to reduce behaviors such as self-harm, self-sabotage or risk taking and impulsive actions.
Finding ways to better love yourself and accept yourself as you are.
Addressing difficulties in our interpersonal relationships more effectively and learning to respect both our own boundaries and others in conflict.
Everyone enters group for their own individual needs and reasons, but one thing is common among all of us:
We are all doing our best and working to improve.
Empower your Mind Therapy has multiple group days and times available!
How is DBT Skills Group structured?
Unlike other groups, DBT Skills groups are centered around learning, improving, and practicing our DBT skills. Group is very structured so that we can really focus on honing our skills and figuring out how to implement them in our daily lives. Each group is led by two therapists as a way to effectively facilitate this structure. Our Co-Leaders make sure to include validation, support and discussion within this structure in order to create a fruitful and positive experience for group members.
Group runs for 6 months, once a week, for one hour. Each group is co-led by two therapists. they are open with rolling admission and ongoing; meaning that you can enter the group during any point in time but still go through all modules part of DBT. Each group session starts and ends with a mindfulness exercise. The rest of the group is to review/practice a past skill and learn a new one.
What Skills Will You Learn (i.e the 4 modules of DBT)?
Mindfulness
Emotion Regulation
Distress Tolerance
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Read more about these modules here. We provide all materials needed, such as handouts. After each group session, you will receive a review email highlighting relevant items covered during the group session and access to a digital copy of any handouts given.
Contact Us
Tiffany Evans
Intake Coordinator
We would love to hear from you!
The quickest way to get group support is by clicking the link below to schedule a call with Tiffany, our intake coordinator. She can answer your questions and help you apply for a spot in one of the groups.
You can also call us at 347-947-7082.
DBT Skills Group at Empower Your Mind Therapy
DBT skills group will help you learn how to better manage stress, emotions, and unwanted behaviors so that you can build the life you want. Groups are held in a group practice in Flatiron District near Madison Square Park. Also serving the Village, Chelsea, Union Square, the Financial District and surrounding areas.