Young Adult DBT Skills Group

Do you often struggle with big emotions? Perhaps your emotions get in the way of completing tasks or reaching your goals. Are relationships challenging for you or do you struggle to connect with others effectively? If so, DBT skills might be for you!

Our Young Adult DBT Skills Group covers all four DBT skills modules created by Marsha Linehan: Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, and Interpersonal Effectiveness.

The group is offered as an adjunctive treatment to individual therapy for clients who could benefit from additional skill building in these areas to enhance their work with their individual therapist. Each module varies in its duration of time and includes two weeks of mindfulness skills. 

The young adult DBT skills group covers all four DBT skills modules created by Marsha Linehan: Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. The group is offered as an adjunctive treatment to individual therapy for clients who could benefit from additional skill building in these areas to enhance their work with their individual therapist. Clients can sign up for group on a module-by-module basis. Each module varies in its duration of time and includes 2 weeks of mindfulness skills.

Below is an approximate timeline for completing all four skills modules. *Please note that cancellations, illness and other factors may cause delays or changes in the amount of time it takes to complete the skills group.*

1. Phone Screen and first contact with IFGD intake department
2. Orientation with DBT group facilitator(s)-30-60 minute session
3. Mindfulness- 2 weeks between every module
4. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness focuses on improving an individual’s ability to accept and be present in any given moment. The skills in this module help individuals learn the importance and value of slowing down and taking pause instead of succumbing to intense emotions and acting in destructive ways
   • Distress Tolerance-10-12 weeks
5. What is distress tolerance? Distress tolerance focuses on increasing an individual’s tolerance of negative emotion as opposed to attempting to avoid or escape from it. The skills in this module help individuals learn various techniques for handling crisis (e.g., distraction, self-soothing, improving the moment, etc.).
   • Emotion Regulation- 13-15 weeks
6. Emotion Regulation-focuses on helping an individual identify, name, understand the function of, and regulate their emotions. The skills taught in this module are intended to help an individual learn to decrease the intensity of their emotions, sit with and experience strong emotions that are causing problems in one’s life, without impulsively acting on them.
   • Interpersonal Effectiveness-13-15 weeks
7. Interpersonal Effectiveness-focuses on increasing an individual’s communication strategies. The skills taught in this module help an individual learn to identify what their own needs are in a relationship and develop assertive and effective communication methods to ensure those needs are met in a healthy, nondestructive way. 

 

ESTIMATED TOTAL TIME: 42-48 weeks (not counting holidays & other scheduling interruptions)

Date + Time:

• Day and time will be determined by the group’s preference, held via tele-health

 

Cost: $150 per session

Facilitator:  Alexandra (Alex) Maddox, MA, LMFT, Licensed Marriage + Family Therapist (LMFT 141737) and Alexis Paul, PsyD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Supervised by Vicki Chiang, Psy.D. (PSY21136)

Learn More and Register: Contact our Intake Team at Intake@IFGD.care or 626-585-8075 ext. 108.