Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

I have extensive clinical experience, coursework, and additional ceu training and certification in using DBT for a variety of clinical concerns.

DBT equips individuals with tools to manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and practice mindfulness. My expertise in DBT allows me to help clients build emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills, fostering lasting personal growth and resilience.

While working in a PHP/IOP setting, I was taught how to utilize DBT as a treatment modality. I provided interventions through DBT both "informally" as well as in a traditionally structured setting in DBT skills groups, individual therapy with diary cards, and attending DBT Consultation.

I facilitated a DBT skills group for two years with a large number of clients. While I do NOT formally practice DBT, I integrate DBT skills into my work because they're so helpful. So if you don't need full formal DBT with groups and diary cards, but have heard about it and are curious about what's in it, I can help you there.

I've participated in comprehensive DBT training, and have over two years experience co-facilitating and teaching weekly DBT skills group in community mental health. I've used DBT to successfully treat borderline personality, suicidal ideation, PTSD, and other hard-to-treat conditions. Challenging clients to think dialectically, I provide clients a variety of coping skills to better tolerate distress & regulate emotions, which allows clients opportunities to engage in new behaviors.

I have extensive clinical experience, coursework, and additional ceu training and certification in using DBT for a variety of clinical concerns.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a specialized form of cognitive-behavioral therapy designed to help individuals manage intense emotions and improve interpersonal effectiveness. DBT focuses on teaching practical skills in four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Mondays I work with Kristen Lund in St. Paul as a DBT therapist, helping those struggling with emotional regulation. Difficulty regulating emotions often stems from past trauma and from not being taught these skills as young children. Part of your treatment can include participation in DBT group in order to learn and practice concrete skills needed to be effective in your life moving forward.

As a therapist trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), I'm skilled at helping clients contextualize, understand, and manage unwanted behaviors and difficult emotions. Many of my clients tend to be people who experience this world, and their emotions, intensely. DBT is a tool I bring into sessions to help clients develop confidence in their own abilities to be with difficulty emotions and build more effective relationships with the people in their lives that matter.

Our practice runs a DBT and RO DBT program with weekly skills group. Originally it was designed for people with Borderline Personality Disorder, which it's excellent at treating, but it's been shown through many studies to be helpful for many people. DBT helps us learn the skills to be more effective in life, have more control over our emotions while keeping them from having so much control over us, and helping us to be present with ourselves in the day to day.

I use DBT to help you identify and shift negative thinking patterns, while incorporating mindfulness based skills that will help you regulate your emotions, implement/set boundaries, and communicate effectively.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an approach I draw upon where appropriate to help clients manage overwhelming emotions, navigate relationships, and increase mindfulness. DBT provides practical tools for building emotional resilience and healthier coping mechanisms. By balancing acceptance and change, we address immediate challenges while creating space for meaningful growth and self-awareness.

I have extensive training and experience in using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help people build skills to manage emotion regulation, improve relationships, and improve a positive sense of self. This treatment offers practical skill building to improve mindfulness of the experience of emotions, and tools to change emotional reactivity. DBT is useful in reducing suicidal thoughts, reducing substance use, improving mood and decreasing anxiety.

I have extensive training and experience with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). I originally led an inpatient DBT-informed program. Since transitioning to private practice, I have been specializing in DBT applications for anxiety and panic disorders.