DBT Program
(MN State Certified)
If your emotions feel overwhelming, hard to manage, or consistently impact your relationships or daily life, a more structured level of support may help.
Our comprehensive, adherent Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers the consistency, skills, and support needed to create meaningful, lasting change. It is ideal if you are struggling with significant emotion dysregulation, relationship challenges, and difficulty managing distress.
The program is offered in partnership with a DBT team to ensure adherence to the DBT model, with care and creating a supportive, structured, and compassionate environment.
What Is DBT — and Why Does It Work?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan. Originally designed to support individuals experiencing intense emotional pain, suicidality, and self-harm, DBT is now widely used to treat anxiety, depression, PTSD and other emotional health disorders.
If you struggle with intense emotions, overwhelm, or relationship challenges, DBT offers practical, skills-based tools to help you feel more steady and in control.
DBT works by helping you both accept your current emotional experience and build the skills to create meaningful change.
Who This Program Is For
This program may be a good fit if you:
Feel overwhelmed by intense emotions
Experience frequent reactivity or shutdown
Struggle in relationships or fear abandonment
Have tried therapy but still feel stuck
Need more structure, support, and accountability
You don’t have to be in crisis to benefit.
You just need a more supported and consistent approach.
What Does Adherent DBT Include?
Comprehensive, or adherent, DBT includes four core components:
Individual Therapy — personalized support applying DBT to your life
Skills Training Group — structured learning and practice of DBT skills
Phone Coaching — in-the-moment support to use skills in real life situations
Consultation Team — therapists working together to ensure high-quality care
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.
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.