Wellness and Resilience University

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for college students and young adults; ages 18-24. Next session June 6-July 25; Weekly/Friday 9a-1030a.

A brief 8 week summer session with all the same Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills training class components; specifically designed for college students and young adults (ages 18-24). Each week participants learn skills in the 5 core modules: 

  • Dialectics-Helps to balance opposing tensions related to (thoughts, feelings, relationships and experiences)
  • Mindfulness – Helps individuals be present in the current moment.
  • Distress tolerance – Most people try and keep themselves safe from all negative emotions. Distress tolerance is geared toward increasing a person’s tolerance of negative emotions.
  • Emotion regulation – Offers strategies to manage intense emotions that are the root cause of problems in a person’s life. 
  • Interpersonal effectiveness – These techniques allow an individual to communicate with others in a confident, assertive way that maintains self-respect and strengthens relationships.

Small group class objectives include:

  • Practice a variety of wellness and resilience skills, habits, and routines in different areas of your life to minimize stress and optimize well-being

  • Describe why intentionally ‘practicing’ wellness and resilience skills is critical to developing the fluency to use and reap the benefits from them

  • Develop a wellness and resilience toolbox of skills and strategies that serves as the vehicle on your roadmap for your future as a student and in your career

  • Identify values and goals, learn the value of connecting with others in meaningful ways, and identifying unhelpful thought patterns

  • Plan for how to use these skills in your future career and relationships.

Price: $840 (Carecredit accepted and payment plans available; balance due by the start of class)

Includes:

  • 8 Week DBT coaching class

  • Personal manual to include worksheets and handouts

  • Weekly home practice exercises

  • Small group class format 6-8 participants

  • Master list of skills

  • Each class 1.5 hour

Use the link below to register:

https://paperbell.me/katrina-breeden

Financing available