If your emotions run your life instead of the other way around, if your relationships keep blowing up in the same patterns, if you’re in crisis more often than you’d like to admit, or if you just feel like you’re white-knuckling through every day without the tools to actually cope, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills training can help.

Kind Mind Psychology offers Adult DBT Skills Groups as part of our comprehensive DBT program. These groups teach you the full DBT skill set across a 6-month cycle. They’re not support groups where you sit in a circle and share. They’re structured, skills-based classes where you learn specific, evidence-based tools and practice using them so they’re available when you need them most.

DBT was originally developed for borderline personality disorder, but the skills are effective for anyone struggling with emotional dysregulation, impulsive behavior, relationship difficulties, chronic stress, ADHD-related emotional intensity, or difficulty tolerating distress. If you’ve tried other approaches and they haven’t stuck, DBT group skills training may be what’s been missing.

What You’ll Learn

DBT skills training covers four core modules. Each one targets a different dimension of what makes life hard when your emotions feel unmanageable:

Mindfulness is the foundation of everything else in DBT. It teaches you to observe your thoughts and emotions without being swept away by them. When you can notice what you’re feeling in the moment without immediately reacting, you create space between the trigger and your response. That space is where change happens.

Distress Tolerance gives you tools for surviving emotional crises without making them worse. When the pain is acute, when everything in you wants to act on an impulse you know you’ll regret, distress tolerance skills help you get through it without self-harm, substance use, explosive anger, or the other behaviors that provide short-term relief and long-term damage.

Emotional Regulation helps you understand why you feel what you feel, reduce the frequency and intensity of unwanted emotions, and increase your ability to manage emotional responses day to day. This module covers identifying and labeling emotions, understanding what triggers them, and building habits that reduce emotional vulnerability (including the PLEASE skill for physical health and emotional stability).

Interpersonal Effectiveness teaches you how to ask for what you need, say no when you need to, and maintain relationships without abandoning your self-respect. If you tend to either avoid conflict entirely or blow up in the middle of it, this module gives you a third option.

Group Schedule

All groups are virtual and run on a 6-month cycle covering all four skill modules.

Mondays at 6:00 PM ET
Group Leader: Dr. Alexey Breuss

Wednesdays at 6:30 PM ET
Group Leaders: Wenzhen Li, MHC-LP and Dr. Monica Johnson

Thursdays at 6:00 PM ET
Group Leaders: Shay Nabi, MHC-LP and Dr. Monica Johnson

All groups are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and neurodivergent affirming.