Individual psychotherapy in the DBT Program provides the place to obtain validation and to solve problems in a supportive environment.
Your individual therapist will help you to improve your own ability to solve your problems. Also, your therapist will help you to understand how these problems are arising. You may explore the following questions with your therapist:
- How do your problems happen?
- What is the trigger for your problems?
- What are the subsequent thoughts, feelings and behaviors?
- What needs to be different in your life?
- What works in your life and what is not working?
- How can you function more adaptively so that you lead a more meaningful life?
The therapeutic relationship is collaborative, honest, and well-observed. Having a solid, safe therapeutic relationship is the foundation of the therapeutic process.
The following are the goals of DBT individual psychotherapy:
- Address behaviors which could threaten life
- Address behaviors that might interfere with the therapy work
- Address behaviors that interfere with the quality of one’s work, study, relationships, and overall life
- Address ways to increase skillfulness