Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
(DBT) in Denver
Change negative behaviors and manage your emotions.
What is DBT?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a structured form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that helps people build practical coping skills for managing traumas and regulating emotional highs and lows. It’s often used for therapy for borderline personality disorder, and it focuses on changing negative thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs to help people manage their emotions.
Extreme emotions often come as a result of experiencing trauma, which can manifest in relationships with spouses, friends, family, and others. When trauma goes unresolved, emotions can run higher and faster than they typically would. We can provide DBT therapy in our offices in Denver, Lone Tree, and Greenwood Village.
DBT can include mindfulness meditation skills, help with managing interpersonal relationships, learning different ways to handle and tolerate stress, and learning how to regulate your emotions. Through therapy, our Denver DBT therapists can help reveal your strengths, help you understand yourself, and develop skills to help you in your everyday life.
Benefits of DBT therapy
- Identifying strengths
Developing your confidence and self-worth. - Interpersonal relationships
Building connections with others. - Mindfulness
Being fully and authentically present. - Understanding beliefs
Discovering the thoughts and assumptions that are creating challenges for you and developing different ways of thinking that can help change them. - Managing distress
Practicing and identifying strategies to handle life’s ups and downs. Developing new ways of coping: Using new ways of handling relationships and conflicts. - Regulating emotions
Creating long-term emotional stability.
Who is DBT therapy for?
While DBT is generally focused on people with borderline personality disorder and suicidal behavior, it can be effective for other people as well, including people with PTSD.
Many people with borderline personality disorder also have PTSD. While the symptoms between the two are different, they often include problems managing emotions, impulsive behaviors, and difficulties managing relationships. Three things that DBT can help with.
DBT can be used to help people with mental health issues that threaten their own safety, professional life, personal relationships, and well-being. It can also help teens regulate their emotions, maintain healthy relationships, and more.
DBT skills
With DBT therapy, we focus on developing four major skills:
Mindfulness: Build presence and self-awareness in a variety of situations.
Distress tolerance: Learn how to manage difficult situations without making them worse.
Emotional regulation: Skills to help you understand and experience feelings in a more manageable ways that aren’t overwhelming.
Interpersonal effectiveness: Strengthen your personal and professional relationships and learn about your patterns.
- Better relationships: Learn how to create and maintain healthy relationships built with respect and trust. These relationships can have far-reaching, positive effects on your life.
- Transform your life: The skills you learn with DBT, including mindfulness, can provide you with new ways to positively change your personal and professional life.
- Improves quality of life: Be able to move forward by making changes that move you in the right direction. Things can be difficult, but learning skills that help you move down the right path can be life-changing.
- Motivate change: Even when negative things or feelings happen, you learn how to continue moving forward to improve your life.
- Learn skills: Discover new ways to lower stress, compulsion, confusion, relationship issues through practical skills that help you regulate emotions and improve relationships.
How DBT works for trauma, borderline personality disorder, and PTSD
DBT has been proven to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which is also treated with EMDR, and borderline personality disorder. It’s an effective trauma treatment that has also been shown to be effective with many other issues.
DBT pays close attention to relationships and helps build skills for PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and more the following ways:
Borderline personality disorder
If you’re looking for therapists with experience working with borderline personality disorder and DBT, our therapists have worked with many clients with borderline personality disorder in Denver.
We approach every client as a unique individual and tailor treatment plans to help regulate emotions, develop healthy relationships, and teach practical skills to help people with borderline personality disorder.
Other Specialties
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Victor Frankl
Meet our therapists
My Denver Therapy is one of the largest woman-owned therapy private practices in Colorado with many of the best, most requested mental health therapists in the Denver Metro area.
As a therapist-owned practice with decades of combined experience, we care about seeing our clients heal, grow, and thrive. We’re one of the only therapy practices in Colorado with licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, social workers, and psychiatric nurse practitioners who actively see new clients. Whether you’re an adult, teen, young adult, couple, or family, our inclusive therapist team is built to specialize in you.
Our practice started with one therapist in a shared office suite, but we’ve grown to help thousands of people in Colorado by providing in-person therapy at our conveniently located Denver Metro area counseling offices in Denver, Greenwood Village, and Lone Tree, plus online therapy for clients throughout Colorado. Because of the way our team works, our therapists also provide consultation for other therapists and private practices in the Denver Metro area.
Our inclusive therapists provide some of the most innovative, effective, and in-demand forms of therapy available today, including EMDR, Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, CBT, and IFS. We also have more therapists trained in Ketamine-assisted therapy, EMDR, and more teen therapists and young adult counselors than nearly every other private practice in Denver.
We know that clients want to find the best therapists in Denver, so our team includes therapists with different backgrounds, specialities, and experiences to help you find the right fit. We’ll match you with one of our therapists who is the best for your goals, location, budget, and schedule to help you get started quickly.
We’re out of network for insurance, Tricare, and are unable to take Medicaid, but most of our therapists’ rates are lower than the local and national averages for therapy.
All of our therapists take a client-focused approach to counseling and approach each session with a commitment to your progress and growth.
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