DIALECTICAL BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (DBT) SKILLS TRAINING
At Wisdom Traditions, our DBT Skills Training group offers a unique, holistic approach to managing life’s challenges with resilience and clarity. DBT is a structured, psycho-educational program that empowers you to navigate both internal and external stressors with confidence and calm. Through DBT, you’ll learn to focus on the present, quiet persistent rumination, and transform limiting beliefs into opportunities for growth. This journey will build your resilience, increase distress tolerance, and strengthen your ability to communicate assertively—allowing you to express yourself with authenticity and advocate meaningfully for your needs.
Backed by research, DBT has proven highly effective in supporting individuals managing mood disorders, PTSD, and other mental health challenges. This approach enables participants to develop tools that foster mental and emotional balance, allowing them to lead more grounded and fulfilling lives.
Our DBT program requires a 25-week commitment to support lasting change and personal growth. We currently offer two group options: online sessions (Tuesdays from 6–9 pm) and in-person sessions (Wednesdays from 12–2 pm). Each group also integrates Tai Chi practice, using mindful movement to deepen self-awareness and support the principles of DBT.
This is more than a skills group—it’s a commitment to living with purpose, resilience, and a renewed connection to self. Join us in building a balanced life where Mind & Body are all aligned!
DBT incorporates a philosophical process called dialectics which asserts:
Everything is composed of opposites.
Change occurs when there is a "dialogue" between opposing forces.
Dialectical assumptions:
All things are interconnected.
Change is constant and inevitable.
Opposites can be integrated to form a closer approximation of the truth.
“The day when I was sitting in the piano room by myself, a lonely soul in the midst of other lonely souls in the unit, I am not sure what made me do what I did next. Whatever it was, there and then I made a vow to God that I would get myself out of hell and that, once I did, I would go back into hell and get others out. That vow has guided and controlled most of my life since then.”
Some other DBT assumptions are:
Problems exhibited by individuals are caused by skills deficits.
Failure to use effective behavior is often a result of not knowing skillful behavior, or when / how to use it.
Skills Training teaches the individual a set of behavioral skills to strengthen their ability to use those skills in their everyday lives.
These skills are Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance.
“This is one of the most powerful and transformational groups I have ever had the privilege of facilitating - twenty-four weeks of pure wonder, listening and responding non-judgmentally in the present moment to your own emotions, mind, heart, and soul. If any of the above speaks to you, if you are tired of pain and isolation, learning these skills might be the next best step in your path toward wellness.
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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills Training is a psycho-educational group helping individuals develop specific skills to cope with daily internal and external stressors. DBT focuses mindfully on the present moment, quieting rumination, identifying and reframing core beliefs and thinking errors, decreasing stress, increasing distress tolerance, regulating emotions, communicating assertively with no self-betrayal and with the ability to say yes or no as one pleases. DBT was developed specifically for people with Borderline Personality Disorder, but studies have shown it is also effective with mood disorders, and PTSD.