Village Counseling Services has the longest running comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program in central New Jersey. To uphold the integrity of the DBT treatment model, the program features a structured and selective intake process and all members of the DBT Consultation Team have been intensively trained. The team provides each client with intensive, individualized treatment by maintaining a small therapist-to-client ratio, and by offering DBT skills training in small groups. The DBT program provides services to children ages 9 to 13, adolescents ages 14 to 18, adults, and family members, offering several DBT skills groups per week.
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Substance Dependence and Addiction
Depression Bipolar Disorder Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and other anxiety disorders Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating Disorder |
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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 of reality; preserve worthwhile 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; reach a more stable sense of self; move from incompleteness to completeness; and feel connected.
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DBT skills training group is focused on enhancing our clients' capabilities by teaching them behavioral skills. The group is run like a class where the group leader teaches the skills and assigns homework for our clients to practice using the skills in their everyday lives. Groups meet on a weekly basis and it takes 24 weeks to get through the full skills curriculum, which is often repeated to create a 1-year program. We offer Adult, Adolescent, Family and Advanced Skills Training Groups. Click here to see our weekly schedule.
DBT individual therapy is focused on enhancing our client’s motivation and helping them to apply the skills to specific challenges and events in their lives. Individual therapy takes place once a week for as long as the client is in therapy and runs concurrently with skills groups. DBT phone coaching is focused on providing clients with in-the-moment coaching on how to use skills to effectively cope with difficult situations that arise in their everyday lives. Clients can call their individual therapist between sessions to receive coaching at the times when they need help the most. DBT therapist consultation team is intended to be therapy for the therapists and to support the DBT providers in their work with people who often have severe, complex, difficult-to-treat disorders. The consultation team is designed to help the therapists stay motivated and competent so they can provide the best treatment possible. Teams typically meet weekly and are composed of individual therapists and group leaders who share responsibility for each client's care. Each member of our team has been intensively trained. |
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1. Life-threatening behaviors:
First and foremost, behaviors that could lead to a client's death are targeted, including all forms of suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury, suicidal ideation, suicide communications, and other behaviors engaged in for the purpose of causing bodily harm. 2. Therapy-interfering behaviors: This includes any behavior that interferes with a client receiving effective treatment. These behaviors can be on the part of a client and/or a therapist, such as coming late to sessions, cancelling appointments, and being non-collaborative in working towards treatment goals. 3. Quality of life behaviors: This category includes any other type of behavior that interferes with a clients having a reasonable quality of life, such as mental disorders, relationship problems, and financial or housing crises. 4. Skills acquisition: This refers to the need for clients to learn new skillful behaviors to replace ineffective behaviors and help them achieve their goals. |
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Office Location: 22 Gordon Avenue Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 |
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