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DBT LifeSkills Training

DBT is referred to as LifeSkills 101 because these are basic skills that all individuals need. They will help you to interact with yourself, your family, the environment, and society. Are you in need of intensive coping skills combined with daily strengthening and support? If so, then DBT LifeSkills Training has been developed for you. You may benefit from DBT LifeSkills Training if you are struggling with an inadequate sense of self, low self-esteem, emotional instability, unstable relationships, impulsive self-damaging behavior and/or suicidal behavior.

From a mind, body, and spirit perspective utilizing a psychoeducational and life-coaching approach to teach you effective lifeskills. DBT LifeSkills Training is based on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), which emphasizes the fundamental interrelatedness or wholeness of reality. As well, as incorporating the concepts of Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Helping You Gain Skills for Life (HUGS™). A life enrichment program focused on helping you build a life that you actually want to live by teaching you lifeskills to resolve challenges and crises, while simultaneously supporting your self-esteem and encouraging your positive and healthy choices. It is a skills building program, which focuses on helping you to identify unhealthy behaviors that interfere with your activities of daily living. DBT LifeSkills Training provides you with tools and skills to handle the difficulties, challenges and opportunities that occur in your life; thereby enhancing and enriching your life ... giving you an authentic and meaningful life
that you feel is worth living.

DBT LifeSkills Training: The general goal of DBT LifeSkills Training is to learn and develop skills in changing behavioral, emotional, and thinking patterns associated with problems in living, that is, those problems that are causing you anxiety, misery, pain, and distress. The focus is to decrease behaviors of interpersonal chaos, abrupt changes in emotions and moods, impulsiveness, and confusion about yourself, as well as cognitive uncertainty defined as the inability to recognize, understand, remember, or evaluate information appropriately for the situation. DBT LifeSkills Training focuses on behaviors to increase through lifeskills training and development in the following areas.

• Mindfulness in Everyday Living: Awareness of Self and Surroundings

• Intrapersonal Effectiveness: Learning to Love Yourself

• Interpersonal Effectiveness: Winning at Relationships

• Emotional Regulation: Identification and Effectiveness

• Distress Tolerance Skills and Clutter Clearing: Emphasizing the Five Senses

• Balanced LifeStyle: Acceptance in Change

 

DBT LifeSkills Training is available In-Person, as well as OnLine. If you live within the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area of Minnesota__DBT LifeSkills Training groups are available. Each module runs for 10 weeks, at a cost of $60 ($US) for each session. Most insurances are accepted, including Medicare and Medicaid (Medical Assistance). OnLine DBT LifeSkills Training is $450 ($US) for each module, includes a 150+ page manual valued at $75 ($US). Currently insurance companies do not reimburse for online services.

DBT Launch: Groups for DBT LifeSkills Training often have long waiting lists, therefore DBT Launch was designed to help you connect to DBT training within two weeks. DBT Launch are introductory individual sessions (or groups) meeting weekly for one hour -- to assist you in getting acquainted with DBT LifeSkills and learn how they can begin to be implemented into your daily life ... you will be transferred to a DBT LifeSkills Training group, when an opening becomes available. DBT Launch has four primary purposes:

• Introduction to DBT LifeSkills

• Weekly Goal Setting

• Basic Mindfulness Skills

• DBT Daily LifeSkills Journal and Self-Reflection