Our therapists offer DBT / dialectical behavior therapy in Pueblo, CO

My go-to approach for helping people in dialectical behavior therapy is to help clients increase their ability to tolerate and effectively manage life's confusions, paradoxes, and ironies. I find the best benefit of using DBT is the four content areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT takes into consideration cultural values, developmental milestones, and the client's worldview.

I teach the following tool in dialectical behavior therapy: the ability to hold two or more things in balance that are in conflict, contrary, or mismatched yet both are real or true. Recovery and a strength-based perspective are the foundation for additional practices like chain analysis, radical acceptance, mindfulness, and meditation.

I know a client is making meaningful progress in dialectical behavior therapy when they are practicing on a daily basis and are able to summarize in session what's going on, how they feel about it, and how they want to respond to it without assigning values to themselves or others.

Clients can supplement their time in dialectical behavior therapy by completing assignments prior to sessions, being ready to review them in sessions, fully participating in the discussion, and identifying thoughts and emotions effectively.

For their first dialectical behavior therapy session, an individual should be prepared to discuss strengths, obstacles for reaching goals, skills that optimize life satisfaction, and motivation for change.