When emotions feel like they're running your life, DBT can help you take back the wheel
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy gives you practical, evidence-based skills to manage intense emotions, tolerate distress, and build the relationships you want.
What is DBT?
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is an evidence-based treatment developed by Dr Marsha M. Linehan. It's founded on the principle that seemingly contradictory concepts — acceptance of your current self and the drive for personal improvement — can coexist as valid truths.
DBT provides a skill-based toolkit with four primary components, each designed to help you build a life worth living:
Core Mindfulness
Internal observation and emotional awareness to quiet mental noise and find your centre. Learning to be present without judgement.
Distress Tolerance
Building resilience during challenging moments without reactive responses. Surviving crises without making things worse.
Emotion Regulation
Understanding emotions as natural phenomena and learning to navigate their intensity. Reducing vulnerability to painful emotions.
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Developing conflict resolution abilities while maintaining healthy relationships and self-respect. Asking for what you need while keeping relationships intact.
Who is DBT for?
While DBT was originally developed for Borderline Personality Disorder, it has proven effective for anyone experiencing:
- Chronic emotional dysregulation
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Self-harming behaviours
- Suicidal thoughts
- PTSD and trauma
- The emotional component of ADHD
- Extreme anger, shame, or guilt
- Substance use and maladaptive coping
- Relationship difficulties
- Over-control or under-control of emotions
My Approach to DBT
I deliver comprehensive DBT across all four modules — not just techniques borrowed from DBT, but the full evidence-based programme. My approach combines the structured skill-building of DBT with the warmth and understanding that makes therapy feel safe.
In my practice, I often see clients who have tried other forms of therapy without the results they were hoping for. DBT offers something different: concrete, learnable skills that you practise between sessions and carry with you for life.
What to Expect
Programme Structure
A standard DBT programme includes weekly individual therapy sessions, weekly skills group sessions, coordinated homework assignments, and between-session coaching access.
Duration
Commitments are usually in six-month intervals. Most clients complete the programme within a defined timeframe and transition to independent functioning with the skills they've built.
Between Sessions
DBT is skills-based, which means you'll practise what you learn between sessions. Homework and skill practice are a core part of the programme — this is where the real change happens.
What DBT Clients Say
"DBT has been transformative. The mindfulness and distress tolerance skills have given me tools I use every single day. I finally feel like I have a safe space to process things."
"I never thought there would be a day where I didn't have panic attacks. I thought being depressed and having panic attacks were a part of life. You helped me to get to know myself more."
"The skills group was the part I dreaded most, but it ended up being the most valuable. Practising with other people who get it made everything click."
"I used to blow up at the smallest things. Six months into DBT, I have actual tools to pause before reacting. My relationships have completely changed."
"Jared explained DBT in a way that made sense from day one. No jargon, no judgement — just practical skills I could use immediately."
"Distress tolerance was the module that saved me. For the first time I could sit with pain without making it worse. That alone was worth everything."
Frequently Asked Questions
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