I am delighted to announce that the next virtual 14-week Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills (DBT) Group will be meeting on Tuesday evenings, 7:30 – 9 PM EST, February 18 – May 20, 2025. We will be covering both the Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation modules. (This is an ongoing group that has open enrollment periods three times per year.)
[If you would like to receive a copy of the full 14-week curriculum, please request one HERE. (This is a NO-SPAM Zone, so your email will not be added to any list unless you request it.]
The Mindfulness material includes:
- Learning how to be a good observer, describing your feelings, participating more fully in life
- How to become non-judgmental of yourself and others
- Staying in the present moment with more ease
- Practicing being effective for the greater good of your family, workplace, community
- Accessing Wise Mind (aka higher self, higher consciousness)
- Understanding Reality Acceptance and detaching from negative or critical thoughts.
- Shifting from Willfulness to Willingness
The Emotion Regulation module has four sections:
- Understanding and Naming Emotions
- Changing Emotional Responses
- Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind (your highly reactive and difficult emotions)
- Managing Extremely Difficult Emotions
As DBT founder Dr. Marsha Linehan says, “It is difficult to manage your emotions when you do not understand how emotions work. Knowledge is power.”
GROUP ATMOSPHERE: My students are well mannered, high functioning and convivial. For those who occasionally tend to demand more attention, want to give inappropriate feedback and/or act out in any way, I do have a strong “Respectful Communication Policy” in place and several useful group rules which help to maintain a safe, harmonious and cohesive group atmosphere. All are welcome, but there is no allowance for rude or harsh behavior.
Group members will continue to process their unresolved traumas in their individual therapy, not in this group. This is a therapeutic psychoeducation program. (It is NOT group therapy.)
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May this serve you or your loved ones well in their journey towards wholeness and more inner peace.
Onward and Upward🌀
Lisa Wessan
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