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. 

Group sessions (10 weeks)

• Cost: $30 per session (Total $300 for the 10-week program).
• Payment terms: Fees for the group component are payable upfront or in agreed installments.
• Rebate: Please note there is no Medicare rebate available for group sessions.

Individual sessions

• Standard Fee: $140 per session.
• Medicare Rebate: $87.25 per session (available with a valid Mental Health Care Plan).
• Your Gap Fee: ~$52.75 per session.

Concessions and Bulk Billing:

• Health Care Card Holders: Eligible for Bulk Billing for individual sessions (no gap fee) with a valid Mental Health Care Plan.
• Low Income Earners: Reduced rates may be available. Please contact us to discuss your circumstances.

See fees outlined in FAQ here