Solution for Troubled Teens: DBT Therapy May Be the Answer
Being a teen is not easy. In fact, experiencing adolescence has become more complicated and difficult than ever. Troubled teens […]
Being a teen is not easy. In fact, experiencing adolescence has become more complicated and difficult than ever. Troubled teens […]
“It’s hard to be happy without a life worth living. This is a fundamental tenet of DBT. Of course, all lives
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. Its main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, cope healthily with stress, regulate emotions, and improve relationships with others.
In order to describe your internal experiences, you must have some capacity to observe, by witnessing without acting, your feelings, thoughts, urges, impulses, and emotions.
Anger is often a conflicting emotion. The conflict, not the emotion, causes suffering. Biologically it produces the urge to reject, push away, or destroy.
You are not alone in this struggle, learn how DBT group therapy could help you in this situation.
In response to 13 Reasons Why, our practice chose to ask our clients why they choose life. We asked them to write anonymously on post-it notes and put their answers on display in our lobbies on our (More than) 13 Reason’s Why Not posters.