New Virtual DBT Skills Group for Young Adults at Lukin Center Starting January 8, 2025

Updated: Jan 17

Lukin Center is dedicated to always expanding their reach when it comes to helping their clients on their journey to better days ahead. That's why they launched a brand new DBT program for young adults led by professional clinicians, Amy Origlieri PH.D. and Shoshana Levie, LCSW.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a unique form of cognitive-behavioral therapy designed to help people who experience intense emotions. It combines traditional cognitive-behavioral techniques for emotion regulation with concepts of mindfulness, acceptance, and distress tolerance. This powerful combination makes DBT highly effective for treating a range of issues, particularly those related to emotional dysregulation like borderline personality disorder, depression, and anxiety.

Traditional or “comprehensive” DBT consists of four treatment components:

Weekly Skills Group: Provide a supportive environment where patients can learn from and encourage each other.

Individual Therapy: Addresses personal challenges and progress, and helps you integrate the skills learned in groups into your personal experiences.

Phone Coaching: For in-the-moment guidance outside of scheduled sessions, when it's needed most. It is brief (about 5 min!) and focused on reinforcing skills practice.

DBT Consultation Team: A specialized meeting attended by your therapist and group leader to help provide you with the best possible treatment.

What are the four skills modules of DBT?

Mindfulness: Fostering an attentive and non-judgmental awareness of the present moment.

Distress Tolerance: Building resilience to emotional pain without escaping from it.

Emotion Regulation: Understanding and reducing vulnerability to emotions, and increasing positive experiences.

Interpersonal Effectiveness: Navigating relationships more effectively while maintaining good boundaries and self-respect.

DBT is especially effective for people who have not found the relief they want from traditional therapy methods, as well as those dealing with complex emotional or behavioral issues. It's especially effective for people experiencing emotional dysregulation, relationship difficulties, impulse control issues, self-harm behaviors, and suicidal thoughts/ideation.

It is considered the gold standard treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder, chronic suicidality, and self-harm behaviors. It is also widely used to treat: Mood disorders (depression and bipolar), anxiety, other personality disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse issues, ADHD, chronic trauma, PTSD and many other struggles.

Individuals may want to try DBT treatment when:

They feel stuck in traditional therapy and find that it isn’t enough to address complex emotional or behavioral challenges
They have persistent symptoms and want to boost their progress
Preventing relapse to old patterns of behavior

Lukin Center will help you determine what form of DBT treatment will be the best fit for you during your intake assessment (or with your therapist).

CLICK HERE for more information on the DBT Skills Group