Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Do you or your child have frequent suicidal thoughts?
Does life sometimes feel overwhelming and hopeless?
Have you used unhealthy habits like self-harming or disordered eating to cope with your pain?
Do you often feel alone or struggle with relationships?
If any of this sounds familiar, Dialectical Behavior Therapy may be able to help. Through this unique type of counseling, you will not only take a closer look at the causes of these problems but will learn very specific skills to help improve your interpersonal relationships, tolerate distress, regulate your emotions and find/create meaning in your life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) helps people who may have experienced one or more of the following:
Live chaotic and painful lives
Frequent suicidal thoughts
Have difficulty in relationships
Feel emptiness and pain
Feel out of control of their behavior
Self-harm through cutting, burning, or other destructive behaviors
Feel depressed a lot
Multiple hospitalizations and failed treatment experiences
Through this treatment program, people learn skills to:
Stay in treatment
Reduce self-harming behaviors
Build a life worth living
Stay out of the psychiatric hospital
Improve relationships with family and friends
Decrease conflict
Decrease suicidal thoughts
Improve family functioning
Reduce disordered eating behaviors
Comprehensive DBT includes four components:
Weekly individual therapy for one hour
Weekly 2 hour group skills training
Phone calls with your therapist as needed to help you use the skills
Your therapist participates in a Consultation Team every week
Our DBT Therapists can Provide Adherent, Comprehensive DBT
We believe you deserve really, truly effective counseling. If you’re looking at a DBT page, you’ve probably tried other types of counseling before. And yet, you’re still suffering from depression, struggling with self-harm or other really strong emotional responses. We believe in DBT because we’ve seen it work for countless clients over the years and read all of the amazing research about it.
Participation in the DBT Columbia Consultation Team
But we also believe DBT often needs to be administered exactly as it was designed. While some of our therapists offer “DBT informed” therapy where they use components of DBT, we have several therapists who are able to offer all four components listed above. These therapists sit on the DBT Columbia Consultation team where every single week they are getting a consultation, support, and advice from some of the best DBT therapists in the state of Missouri. We are incredibly proud to partner with DBT Columbia and so thankful for the support they provide our clients and therapists! Client participating in comprehensive DBT services at Aspire Counseling also usually participate in DBT skills training groups through DBT Columbia.
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Suicidal thoughts, cutting, and feeling hopeless are all scary to the one experiencing them and loved ones. Know that there is hope. Good treatment helps. Things can get better.
Begin Counseling in Missouri
We know it can be hard to find good quality, comprehensive DBT services. It’s important to know that because we coordinate with DBT Columbia and these services are in high demand, it can take a little time to get started. Individual therapy sessions are offered through Aspire Counseling whereas the group skills training sessions are offered through DBT Columbia. It is a partnership we really value that has helped many people begin comprehensive DBT services more quickly than waiting on a long list for insurance-based services.
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Reach out to Aspire Counseling
First, you’ll speak to a member of our Client Care team who will ask you a few questions. They will then reach out to the member of the DBT Columbia consultation team to see if they have openings.
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Meet with a DBT Therapist
Because we know how important it is to find someone you feel comfortable with, all of our therapists offer a free 30-minute consultation where you can ask as many questions as you’d like.
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Begin Comprehensive DBT Services
You’ll begin with Orientation and Commitment sessions with your therapists. Then, comprehensive DBT will include phone coaching sessions, individual therapy and group skills training.
DBT helps you create a life worth living.
Not sure if you’re ready to get started? Check out some of these resources:
Blog Posts About DBT Skills
Other Dialectical Behavior Therapy Resources
Clients are often referred to DBT due to the seriousness of their self-harm, suicidal thoughts, eating disorders, or troubles with relationships. However, DBT is more than a suicide prevention program. It is an evidence-based mental health treatment that will help you create a life worth living.
Learn more about DBT Columbia, the program that several of our therapists participate in and through which we offer DBT skills training groups here: www.dbtcolumbia.com
Learn more about DBT and find resources here: https://behavioraltech.org/resources/resources-for-clients-families
Additional self-help DBT resources can be found here: https://www.dbtselfhelp.com/index.html
This article about the founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy gives some insight into her own struggle with emotional dysregulation and suicidal thoughts that inspired the creation of DBT.
Other Mental Health Services
We know life is complicated and you may be struggling with more than one issue. Or perhaps more than one member of your family needs some support right now. Because each therapists at Aspire Counseling specializes in something slightly different, we’re able to offer a wide range of mental health services at our office in Columbia or online anywhere in Missouri. Some of our specialties include depression counseling, trauma therapy/PTSD treatment, counseling for caregiver stress, anxiety treatment, teen counseling, support during chronic illness and more! We’re here to help.