DBT Skills Group

DBT History and What it Can Do For You

DBT was developed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. over 50 years ago and continues to be tested and adapted to our current understandings of mental wellness and diversity. It's effective with people from different background and diagnoses because it's grounded in a clients experiences. As a DBT clinician, we don't teach you what we think you should do, we help you develop the ability to guide yourself through the skills.

Originally designed to treat and alleviate the suffering that comes with Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD, it continues to be shown through research to be effective in may other situations including Depression, Bipolar, ADHD, Substance Use Disorders, Eating Disorders, PTSD, Self-harm, Suicide attempts, etc... It is often used successfully to create resiliency, support and stabilize clients before they go through more intensive trauma work and make work less painful. And honesty, if it didn't work, we wouldn't offer it.

DBT is founded on a non-pejorative stance, meaning that it recognizes the importance of accepting our past and present while moving towards future change. It doesn't seek to change who you are at your core but to uncover it for some or lead back others to who they are.

Waystation Counseling offers individual and group therapy for DBT. For individual with life interfering behaviors such as self harm, suicide urges, and behaviors that threaten stability such as reckless driving, substance use, and conflict with support systems; the full protocol of weekly skills group and individual therapy is recommended.

Individuals with an outside therapist are able to join skills groups and keep their current therapist if they like and we work with other therapists to coordinate care.

For individuals with Anxiety or Anorexia, RO DBT is more commonly indicated but an intake with a therapist is needed for a recommendation.

To get started you can us at intake@waystationcounseling.org and we can help you find a therapist suited to your needs, or fill out the contact form below.