DBT Skills Training Group
DBT Skill Modules
🌿 Mindfulness
The foundation of all DBT skills, mindfulness teaches you how to stay present in the moment without judgment. You’ll learn to observe your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations with greater awareness, which helps create space between feeling and reacting.
🔥 Distress Tolerance
These skills help you get through emotional crises without making things worse. You’ll learn how to tolerate pain, manage urges, and cope with intense feelings in healthy, effective ways — especially when you can’t change the situation right away.
💛 Emotion Regulation
Emotion regulation skills teach you how to understand, name, and shift overwhelming emotions. You’ll learn how to reduce emotional vulnerability, respond more effectively, and increase experiences of positive emotion.
🤝 Interpersonal Effectiveness
These skills help you navigate relationships with more confidence and clarity. You’ll learn how to ask for what you need, set boundaries, manage conflict, and maintain healthy connections — without losing yourself in the process.
⚖️ Walking the Middle Path
This module is especially helpful for individuals struggling with all-or-nothing thinking. You’ll learn how to balance acceptance with change, hold multiple perspectives at once, and move away from extremes. Middle Path skills help you build flexibility, compromise, and mutual understanding in relationships — and within yourself.
DBT Skills Group
DBT skills group is a structured, supportive space where you’ll learn how to manage intense emotions, reduce distress, and improve your relationships — all while building a life that feels more grounded, intentional, and fulfilling.
The purpose of skills group is to help you develop new ways of thinking, feeling, and responding to life’s challenges. If your current patterns are causing emotional pain, conflict, or overwhelm, DBT skills can help you change those behaviors in practical, life-affirming ways.
This is not a traditional therapy group. It’s an in-depth learning experience, where you’ll be introduced to over a hundred powerful, evidence-based skills over time. Each session begins with a brief mindfulness practice, followed by time to share your experience using the previous week’s skill. After a short break, we’ll move into learning new skills through engaging teaching, group discussion, and weekly practice assignments.
You'll be positively supported as you integrate these tools into your daily life — and begin to see meaningful change in how you respond to emotions, relationships, and stress.
If you're enrolled in comprehensive DBT, weekly participation in the skills group is a required and essential part of treatment. However, if you’re primarily interested in learning DBT skills and don’t need full DBT treatment, you’re welcome to join the group on its own.