{"id":12062,"date":"2022-09-25T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychotherapyclinic.ca\/?page_id=12062"},"modified":"2024-12-29T07:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T07:02:56","slug":"vaughan-dbt-therapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psychotherapyclinic.ca\/vaughan-dbt-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) in Vaughan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy?<\/h2>

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based psychotherapeutic approach, modified in the pattern of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), that is focused mainly on helping people with borderline personality disorder and other mental health conditions that concern the inability or difficulty to control strong emotions.<\/p>

According to Marsha M. Linehan, an American psychology researcher and the developer of the DBT approach, DBT was designed to aid individuals in improving their capacity for emotional and cognitive self-regulation, by teaching them about the triggers that result in reactive states, and assisting them in determining which coping mechanisms to use in the flow of events, thoughts, feelings, and behaviours to help prevent unwanted reactions.<\/p>

DBT is a form of therapy utilised by medical professionals (performed by a DBT Therapist) to treat patients with a range of mental illnesses which may include:<\/p>