DBT Skills Group

Open for Enrollment
This group is for adults who feel things intensely - anger, anxiety, hurt - and for anyone whose impulses move faster than their judgment, and who finds that their reactivity and overwhelm are costing them at work or at home. You don't need a diagnosis to belong here; you need the sense that your emotions are running you instead of the other way around. 

We meet weekly on Sundays for 90 minutes in downtown Chicago. Each session teaches a skill from one of DBT's four modules: 

  • Mindfulness: observe a feeling or an urge without judging it or acting on it. Every other skill starts here.
  • Emotion regulation: understand what an emotion is doing, decrease reactivity, and change an emotion by acting opposite to its urge.
  • Distress tolerance: survive the spike without making it worse; skills for the moment when nothing can be fixed and every option you can think of is a bad one. 
  • Interpersonal effectiveness: ask for what you want and need, say no, and handle conflict while keeping your self-respect, and end relationships that no longer work.
You practice each skill between sessions, so it moves into your actual life.

The benefits/What changes:
  • You react less and choose more
  • Calm you get on purpose, even mid-crisis
  • You say the hard thing - and the relationship gets stronger, not worse
  • You stop fighting yourself: accept who you are and change what isn't working at the same time.
  • A room of people working on the same thing, motivating, not embarrassing
  • Clearer head & steadier relationships


Topics: Anxiety

For: Adults

Wendi Lev
Wendi Lev
LCSW, ACSW, CADC
Psychotherapist

In-Person Group

Group Type: Ongoing

Group Meets:
  • Sunday
Start Time: 4:00 pm America/Chicago
End Time: 5:30 pm
Duration: 90 minutes
Schedule: Weekly
Cost: $75
Group Size: 8-10
Location:
30 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1117
Chicago, IL 60602
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