Do you or a loved one struggle with:

Intense Emotions
Self-Destructive Behaviors
Difficulty in Relationships
Confusion about Yourself

DBT is an effective, Evidence-Based Treatment for persons with these struggles, including persons with chronic suicidal thoughts and actions and other self-destructive behaviors.

DBT teaches skills to handle these “dialectical dilemmas” when you feel the anguish between two equally valid but opposite feelings.  DBT targets four major contributors to this anguish: Emotions – depression, anger, swift and intense mood changes and/or numbness; Behaviors including suicidal actions and thoughts, self-harm, addictive behaviors, sexual impulsivity, spending problems and eating problems; Relationships including unstable, intense relationships, letting others walk all over you, idealizing or despising others, conflict ridden; Sense of Self from low self-esteem to “checking out” completely, from extreme all or nothing thinking to mindlessness.

DBT
Components:

• Individual Therapy with a DBT trained therapist
• Skills Training Group in 16 sessions for
  adolescents & their families.
• Skills Training Group for 24 sessions for adults

What is the
first step?

Call Nancy Parker at River Park Psychology Consultants, 316-616-0260 to schedule an initial screening interview.  We will determine if DBT is the treatment for you and set up Individual Therapy appointments.  Skills training groups start new modules every 4 weeks.  An essential element of DBT is a commitment to the process which includes attending Individual Therapy, weekly Skills Training group for all four modules, and homework.

The end result will be

Empowerment, Relief, and a Life Worth Living!

Skills Training
Schedule:

For now we only have
adolescent skills training groups at this office and collaborate with another
office for adult skills training.

References:

 http://www.dbtselfhelp.com/DBTinaNutshell.pdf

Instead of your feelings
pulling you apart, you learn to be in control. You are in the driver’s seat.