Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
We are pleased to announce our new Dialectical Behavior Therapy group. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based group psychotherapy for people who experience emotions very intensely. It aims to help people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviors, while also learning to change maladaptive coping strategies in order to manage negative emotions, and troublesome symptoms such as self-harm.
What are the benefits of Dialectical
Behavioral Therapy?
Studies indicate that Dialectical Behavior Therapy can help with the following:
- Improve your personal and professional relationships
- Improve your overall quality of life
- Help lower the arousal state with specific, often simple techniques
- Help regulate your emotions to put those feelings into words
Who is this group for?
The group can accommodate 6-8 patients who meet some or all
of these criteria:
- Having trouble managing moods frequently
- Having frequent conflicts with others (family, friends, coworkers, bosses) in which they recognize that their responses are contributing to the conflicts
- Actively engaged in individual psychotherapy with a clinician at RIVIA, and is consistent in keeping appointments. If you are not currently a patient with us, we will pair you with an additional individual clinician during this time. Please contact us directly at: info@riviamind.com or (212) 203-1773
- Willing and able to commit to the group details below
- OPEN AND WILLING TO CHANGE!
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Group Details.
Our (DBT) sessions will be 60 minutes for 16 weeks (4 weeks per module). We will meet on Thursdays at 12:30PM, Nov. 3rd - Mar. 9th (group will not meet on 11/24, 12/29, or 2/16).
- Virtual sessions, camera must be on
- Patients must commit to the first 2 sessions before dropping the group. Once committed to the group, you can miss a maximum of 2 sessions for all 16 weeks.
- Patients will need to buy this book that will be used
Group Leaders
Rachela Elias, MD, Medical Director
Dr. Elias treats patients with anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder, and has expertise treating eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. Along with providing medication management, Dr. Elias’s therapeutic approach draws substantially from psychodynamic, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approaches.
To get started, please book directly here.
Alexandra Kagan, LMSW
Alexandra has experience treating anxiety, depression, and panic disorder as well as personality disorders and eating disorders. Alexandra has the most commonly used skills from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalytic theory in her practice.
To get started, please book directly here.
