This DBT Skills Training Group can help you make mindfulness a part of your daily life, regulate your emotions, increase your interpersonal effectiveness, and help you when you experience distress or crisis.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Group
Enroll now for DBT Skills Training!
The next DBT skills group starts Thursday, November 07, 2024, and runs through Thursday, February 27, 2025, with no group on November 28th, December 26th, nor January 2nd.
Dr. Suzanna Freerksen’s Group Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Training (Zoom) is a great opportunity to learn and practice DBT skills and techniques in a safe environment with other people. You have the opportunity to learn, practice, and receive feedback on skills related to the four pillars of DBT:
- Mindfulness techniques
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Emotion Regulation, and
- Distress Tolerance
DBT Skills Training group is online (Zoom) and meets on Thursdays from 6:00pm–7:15pm PST.
No previous experience with DBT or DBT skills is required.
Dr. Freerksen and Dr. Shields will lead the group during each session.
The skills training group always starts with a short mindfulness exercise, and then we discuss the skills involved with the module we are working on. We then further discuss how we can or have already used the DBT skills in our daily lives. PDF handouts from Marsha Linehan’s book, DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets will be posted on the patient portal for group members after each meeting.
A four (4) week commitment is requested from all group members. Each meeting is $125 for 75 minutes, billed the morning of the session. Discounted to $120 if you pay on the first week of the month for the entire month.
Dr. Freerksen makes sure that all group participants are a good fit with each other, and that DBT group skills training is a good fit for all involved. In order to make this happen, one individual evaluation session (1 hr, $300) is required prior to group participation. We will discuss goals and expectations from group therapy.
If you would like to enroll for this DBT skills group, please book a 50 minute ($300) DBT Group Intake Evaluation with Suzanna Freerksen MD or Leilani Shields Psy.D. Dr. Shields or Dr. Freerksen will talk with you individually about your goals and current symptoms and help figure out if this DBT Skills group is a good fit or you. If you have questions you would like answered prior to signing up for the intake evaluation, please book a free 15 minute phone call appointment with Dr. Shields or Dr. Freerksen to find out more.