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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

The State of Minnesota - Department of Human Services (DHS) established certification criteria and a process of application for DBT programs to comply with in order to provide DBT to those individuals that have Medical Assistance, Minnesota Care, or a PMAP. Choices Psychotherapy has achieved this certification.

All clients regardless of insurance can be referred for DBT providing they are an adult, 18 + years old.

Dialectical Behavior Training (DBT) was developed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. DBT focuses on balancing logic with feelings to improve coping skills and reduce ineffective behavior. The general goals of DBT include improving relationships, decreasing anxiety and misery, and enhancing the quality of life or “build a life worth living”. DBT helps individuals find effective ways to manage problems and is a combination of individual and group therapy.

Jennifer Vlach, LICSW, Amber Isham, LMFT & Worawan C. Turner, MA, LP are intensively trained and meet the strict guidelines to deliver these services. All of our groups are for adults and we currently offer both evening and day groups as well as women only and coed.

DBT incorporates the following 4 modules:

  1. Core Mindfulness- learning to stay in the moment, observe life around oneself, and use Wise Mind to do what is effective at any given time; full and effective participation

  2. Interpersonal Effectiveness- improving coping skills, learning assertiveness, determining values and priorities in relationships, how to increase the likelihood that needs/wants are met

  3. Emotional Regulation- learning to regulate emotions, name feelings, reduce experiential avoidance and discover a variety of other emotions through emotional growth

  4. Distress Tolerance- developing new skills to soothe oneself and increase ability to tolerate distress effectively, while recognizing that stress/pain is an inevitable part of life
     

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