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DBT & RO-DBT

We believe that everyone has varied ways of coping that benefit from skills on each end of the dialetic, and that concentrating on only one or the other--JUST DBT or JUST RO-DBT would be unethical in our mission to truly and fully heal people from problematic coping behaviors. 

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RO-DBT

When you can't get outside yourself to function...

and no one can see your pain...

and the impulse is to shut down...

 

when you are emotionally

lonely...

RO-DBT will help.

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DBT

When you can't reign in the chaos...

and you lose everything as you get it...

and your emotions get bigger and bigger... 

 

when you are emotionally dysregulated

DBT

will help.

DBT

WHO CAN BENEFIT?

People with undercontrol symptoms can benefit from DBT. Symptoms include:

  • low inhibitory control--strong impulses,

  • lack of control in emotional intensity

  • lack of control in relationships--chaotic relationships

  • instability in sense of self

  • chaotic coping

  • global focused processing,

  • high reward sensitivity 

PRE-TREATMENT TARGETS:

- agree to stay alive
- agree to stay in treatment
- agree to work towards no self-harm behaviors
- agree to build a life worth living

EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATION DUE TO:

  • emotion sensitivity,

  • heightened and labile negative affect,

  • a deficit of appropriate regulation strategies, and

  • a surplus of maladaptive regulation strategies.

DISORDERS TARGETED

Bipolar

Bulimia

Addictions

Binge Eating

Substance Abuse

Personality Disorders


Borderline Personality Disorder

RO-DBT

RO-DBT

WHO CAN BENEFIT?

People with overcontrol symptoms can benefit from RO-DBT. Symptoms include:

  • rigidity

  • inability to connect

  • too much self-control,

  • inflexible behavioral repertoires,

  • emotional suppression and inhibition,

  • elevated distress tolerance,

  • tendencies towards perfectionism,

  • low reward responding and high threat responding,

  • anxious apprehension, and

  • high detail focused processing

 

IN RO-DBT SKILLS CLASSES

YOU WILL LEARN:

  • Social Signaling: How you are saying things without actually saying them.

  • Your Social Safety System: The biological reasons why you struggle to let go.

  • Emotional loneliness: Why you rarely (if ever!) feel truly connected to others. 

  • Radical Openness: How staying safe can be dangerous.

  • Coping Style: How your way of responding to stress may not all that it seems from the outside.

PRE-TREATMENT TARGETS:

- agree to stay alive
- agree to stay in treatment
- agree to work towards no self-harm behaviors
- agree to build a life worth sharing

EMOTIONAL LONLINESS DUE TO:

  • tendencies to hide expressions of emotion 

  • indirect communication styles 

  • isolation, and misery over problematic internal experiences (e.g., negative emotions, harsh self-judgment, distorted thinking)

DISORDERS TARGETED:

Trauma/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Narcissistic/Paranoid/ Avoidant PD

Severe/Chronic Depression (MDD)

Severe Anxiety (GAD)

Autism Spectrum

Anorexia

6025 Atlantic Blvd Suite A, Norcross, GA 30071, USA

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(770) 452-0786

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