Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) focuses on learning skills to manage intense emotions, improve relationships, increase awareness and tolerate distress. 

DBT is particularly helpful for those who experience difficulties regulating emotions that impact on their own wellbeing and their relationships with others

DBT comprises of four main pillars:

Connect - Interpersonal Effectiveness

Working on building healthy relationships by developing our capacity to communicate and set boundaries. It's how to ask for what you want and say "no" to what you don't, while keeping your relationships (and self-respect) intact.

Observe - Mindfulness

Being present and aware. Before we can change a behaviour, we must be able to see it clearly. It's focusing on the present moment and observing without judgement. 

Regulate - Emotional Regulation

Learning how to understand what emotions are for and tolerating them It's naming emotions and recognising things like the difference between feelings and facts. 

Engage - Distress Tolerance 

Skills for when you can't change the situation, but you need to get through a difficult moment without making it worse.

CORE DBT Skills group program is fast-paced but comprehensive. Over 10 weeks, we cycle through the four pillars of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, giving you a complete "toolkit" for navigating life, including:

• 10 x 90min Group Sessions: learn a new DBT skill, learn and practice it together and review homework
• 10 x 50min Individual Sessions: you meet with Lisa or Emma to apply that weeks skill to your specific life experiences and problem solve any barriers 
• Peer Support: real understanding from someone who has walked this path
• Comprehensive Workbook: your roadmap for the 10 weeks

Both group and individual sessions occur online via telehealth. 

10-week program: $300 for group sessions plus 10 individual sessions at $140 each (Medicare rebates may apply to individual sessions).

Group sessions: $300 for the 10-week program ($30 per session). Group sessions are not eligible for a Medicare rebate. Payment for group component is payable upfront or in agreed installments

Individual sessions: $140 per 50-minute session, 10 sessions across the program. Eligible participants with a Mental Health Treatment Plan may be able to claim a Medicare rebate of $89.50 for these sessions. 

Bulk billing for individual sessions is available if finances is going to be a barrier to engaging, but must have a Health Care Card with a valid Mental Health Treatment Plan. Please contact us to discuss

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