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Emotions can be hard to understand and even scary at times.
Especially when you find yourself going from zero to a hundred in a matter of seconds.
When our emotional reactions are extreme and rapidly changing, it’s usually because of unresolved trauma from our past.
Child abuse, neglect, sexual assault, or loss of a loved one are all examples of traumatic situations that can affect your life in the present in ways you may not even realize are connected.
If your emotions often feel out of control, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a research-proven method that can help you develop greater peace, emotional stability, and resiliency.
DBT can help you feel more grounded by teaching you practical and research-proven techniques and coping skills to help you move through your emotional ups and downs and trauma symptoms with greater strength.
Unresolved trauma can make us react in extreme ways, especially toward friends, family, and romantic partners, and can cause our physiological arousal and stress levels to spike faster than the average person.
DBT is a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy specifically developed to target extreme emotions and relational difficulties.
Our DBT therapists will teach you practical, empirically validated skills to help you with intense surges of emotion and the ways they affect your relationships and self-esteem.
DBT was developed by Dr. Linehan in the 1980s when she noticed that CBT—Cognitive Behavioral Therapy—wasn’t quite cutting it with her patients with severe trauma that affects their emotional regulation and relationships.
DBT was specifically created to treat Borderline Personality Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but it is also successful in improving a variety of other mental health issues, such as addiction and Bipolar Disorder.
Plus, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy also helps you develop some crucial life skills, like tolerating distress, practicing mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, and regulating your emotions.
We’re so confident in our extraordinary therapists that we guarantee you’ll love your match – or your money back.
At My LA Therapy, our highly-vetted Anxiety experts are selected not only for their clinical acumen but for who they are.
According to behavioraltech.org, DBT has been proven by research to be effective for the following conditions and mental health concerns:
Let’s dive in deeper to explore exactly how DBT works.
There are many different types of DBT treatment with different focuses. These can include any combination of the following:
Therapy can successfully improve your life by minimizing the anxiety in your life, identifying and changing underlying thought and behavioral patterns that contribute to your struggles, and providing you with strategies to decrease discomfort while restoring an overall sense of peace.
Our therapists are ready to guide you through the DBT process so that you can learn the valuable skills you need to turn negative behaviors into positive and healing ones.
DBT is an evidence-based, scientifically proven intervention that is demonstrated by research to be effective in addressing a wide range of psychological issues such as PTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder, emotional volatility, relational difficulties, addiction, self-harm, and Bipolar Disorder.
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I am blown away! I don’t write testimonials, unless I have been extremely moved by something. I was blessed to work with Brooke on a single session, and before this I was in therapy on and off with multiple therapists for the last 20 years of my life. Brooke was able to do more in one session than many years of work with my previous therapist. She has the true gift of great insight and compassion while also getting straight to the heart of your blind spots and unconscious issues in a way that has truly changed my life.
Skyler J.
There are people who are good at their work there are people like Brooke: who are born to do it. I cannot recommend Brooke more highly. I can only imagine where I would be today if I had started working with her years ago. From the beginning of our session, she knew exactly what tools and questions that would work for my particular psychology and my personal experience. No other therapist has been able to do that or anything close.
What I also really appreciate from our session is Brooke's ability to go directly to the source of the issue while also keeping a very gentle and kind energy with me. I felt very seen, understood, and supported. Everything and more that I could have ever asked for from a therapist. I have a severe trauma history and complex issues she was able to immediately identify and help. If she could help me, I know she can help you too.
Taylor E.
You did more in 45 minutes than my last therapist did in a year.
Jamie
With your help, I've finally started to understand that while my vivid imagination often wants to create terrifying monsters under the bed, in a lot of cases those monsters are nothing more than a heap of decidedly less-terrifying laundry I've avoided for too long that just needs to be aired out and put away. Which is definitely a lot easier than monster slaying. Thank you for shedding light in the dark places I was too afraid to face alone.
Morgan B.
I am extremely fortunate to work with Sydney, who is helping me create real internal change. The talent to listen well is Hall of Fame stuff, and she has that. She then follows with questions, strategies that are organic to the moment. I have come to believe that deep, radical, if occasionally deeply painful change ... and, then, healing can happen. I'm just at the lip of that last part - but would not have gotten there, AT ALL, without Sydney
Ric K.
The best therapist ever! Life-changing 🙂
Catherine H.
Right now, the work is changing my life, sometimes in inches, sometimes in miles.
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