The Southlake Center offers several content-rich DBT-based therapeutic support groups. Whether you are a participant in one of our traditional or DBT-based eating disorders programs, you are warmly invited to enroll in the eight-week DBT group of your choice.
Men’s DBT Group
As a male in this society, you may find yourself pigeonholed into a “strong, silent type” role that is at odds with your very human needs and wants. Learning how to ask for what you want and need, reaching out for support and understanding, managing conflict with loved ones and peers, and successfully grappling with feelings of loneliness and misunderstanding are vital skills that will greatly enhance your quality of life. In this group, we give you an opportunity to practice these skills in a safe, confidential, affirming setting while in the company of your peers.
Women’s DBT Group
As a woman today, you may find yourself struggling against societal expectations to continually fulfill an other-centered, caretaking role in the lives of your family, friends, supervisors, and peers. But what about what you want? What about what you need? And what happens when what others want and need from you conflicts with what you know you need to be healthy, happy, and whole? In this therapeutic group, you will have the chance to build skills to ask for what you want and need, cope with unavoidable change or resistance, go within to strengthen your core sense of self, and allow yourself to express the full range of your emotions in healthy, productive ways.
Adult DBT Group
Just because you look like an adult on the outside doesn’t mean you always feel like one on the inside. Everyone has moments of stress and strain when it becomes difficult to reach out for connection, sustain intimacy, correctly identify thoughts and feelings, manage worry and anxiety, and refrain from self-destructive habits and behaviors. You are not alone – and this therapeutic group is designed to provide you with a comprehensive set of skills that will equip you with the confidence and ability to match your inside state with your outer expression.
Adolescent DBT Skills Group
Adolescence is a time of intense change and inner upheaval – and not just for parents! If your adolescent is struggling to navigate the often-tempestuous years between childhood and adulthood, this group may be exactly what the doctor ordered. DBT will help your adolescent learn how to safely and confidently express thoughts, feelings, needs, and wants, manage emotions, build social skills and confidence, and foster healthy connections. (NOTE: Each therapy group is offered on an 8-week cycle from 4-5:30 p.m. to accommodate your adolescent’s school schedule.)
