A free course for taking control of your thoughts, emotions, and relationships.
40+ lessons with guides, videos, and worksheets.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a structured therapy that focuses on teaching four core skills (mindfulness, acceptance & distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness) to help you create a good life for yourself. You work on those skills through a series of lessons and then start applying them to your life.
This free guide has approximately 40 short DBT lessons. Each lesson includes a short video and then an exercise with an accompanying worksheet. Many readers use them between sessions with their therapist or you can use them as a self-study course to do on your own. Many readers use these at-home exercises in conjunction with a therapist and many readers use them as a self-study guide.
DBT is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) . CBT focuses on helping people change unhelpful thought
patterns. DBT takes those CBT ideas or challenging unhelpful thought patterns, but also adds additional elements like mindfulness, acceptance and distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to give you more tools for dealing with hard situations. Dialectical (the D is DBT) meets opposites, and comes from the idea of combining two of those ideas - change and acceptance.
