Mental Health Treatment Services
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a comprehensive cognitive behavioral treatment for complex and sometimes complicated illnesses. Originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals, Sharon Ash Tancredi from our office has successfully taught these life saving skills to numerous individuals. Dialectics refers to tension. In DBT therapy, it is the tension between validation and acceptance of the client as they are and within the context of simultaneously helping the individual make changes in how they respond to harmful situations. The overarching goal of DBT is to build a life worth living. DBT teaches people to act in ways that support their definition of a life worth living and choose alternative behaviors.