Dialectical Behavior Therapy: (DBT) Counseling and Therapy Services in Orlando, Central Florida, Winter Park, Clermont, Lake Mary & East Orlando Florida
Get healing now for Borderline Personality Disorder. Increase your self-awarness and relaxation with the help of our expert DBT counselors. Our Florida Counselors perform DBT and is the most effective for attachment disorders, trauma disorders, eating disorders, depression disorders and anxiety disorders.
What is DBT? Developed by Marsha Linehan, is effective at helping people manage overwhelming emotions. This therapy was designed to assist people with handling distress without losing control or acting destructively or avoidant. The main propose of DBT is to build a LIFE WORTH LIVING. There is a good amount of research to suggest that the likelihood of intense emotions, overwhelming feelings are hardwired from traumatic experiences from childhood. Trauma and neglect during childhood critically affects our body development and brain structure. DBT therapy can help to build effective skills to manage emotions, thought structure and behavior actions in a long term effect.
What is dialectical behavior therapy and how does it work?
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) treatment uses an arsenal of practical skills that will help the person to engage more mindfully with the whole body (sensations, thoughts, urge of actions), and in a healthy and assertive way, the person will regulate their total body condition by the practice of self-awareness. DBT treatment is a type of psychotherapy/talk therapy, with a cognitive-behavioral approach. Highlighting the psychosocial aspects of treatment.
The theory behind this approach is that there are some people who are more prone to react in an intense and out-of-the-ordinary manner toward particular emotional situations, mainly those dealing with any sort of romantic, family or friend relationships. DBT theory suggests that some people’s arousal levels increase quicker than the average person’s in certain situations. Reaching a higher level of emotional stimulation, and also taking a more significant amount of time to reach baseline arousal levels.
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HOW DOES IT WORK?
In order for this therapy to work effectively, client and therapist need to build a good and healthy rapport based on good boundaries and responsibilities. This therapy must have a clear layout of cooperation and engagement from both parties. It was designed initially for clients with BPD ( Borderline Personality Disorder), to decrease incidence of suicidal clients, nonetheless,, this therapy has proven to work efficiently with so many other disorders, specially trauma. Client will work on awareness of the total body, cognitive restructuring and decrease suicidal ideation. In more critical cases, often BPD cases, this approach is more effective with a combination of therapies modalities, group therapy, weekly individual session and phone crisis intervention.
Skills devloped with DBT:
• Distress Tolerance
• Emotional Regulation
• Mindfulness
• Interpersonal Effectiveness
•Self-awareness
• Effective Boundaries
• Decrease Self-Harm
• Relaxation
