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Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Village Counseling Services’ Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a highly practical and direct form of therapy that emphasizes working on creating a life you want to live by integrating cognitive behavior therapy with mindfulness and acceptance. This approach has been demonstrated to be highly effective for adults and adolescents who have difficulty regulating or managing their emotions. This treatment validates how difficult it is to have conflicting and intense emotions while supporting your desire to make important changes. Many of the group participants suffer with Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), other Anxiety Disorders, and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Program members must be participating in concurrent weekly individual DBT therapy and participate in phone coaching.

You will learn to: control your emotions, instead of your emotions controlling you; reduce and then eliminate life-threatening behaviors; decrease behaviors that destroy the quality of your life and build a life worth living; focus on the present moment; notice judgments and practice acceptance; preserve your relationships and end destructive ones; tolerate distress and get “unstuck” from extreme views; experience feelings without dissociating or avoiding life; build an ordinary life and solve ordinary problems; move from incompleteness to completeness and feel connected.

Intake appointments may be scheduled by calling 609-844-0452, extension 713 or by emailing us at intake@vcsnj.info.

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