Surviving the holidays can be no joke. By using DBT skills, we can not only survive, but also thrive.

Our desire to avoid pain is human, but at what point does this avoidance increase our pain? What can we do to decrease our pain?

With many Americans returning to work, some Human Resource workers are facing more than their common workplace disputes. With the increasing need of Mental Health services for American workers, HR employees are reaching towards therapeutic techniques for better workplace performance.

Splitting includes all or nothing thinking. Splitting makes it hard for people with BPD to accept that everyone is imperfect and can make missteps. By becoming familiar with our splitting tendencies, we can then move towards walking the middle path and thinking and living dialectically.

Parenting teens can be hard. Where’s the manual? At St. Louis DBT, we aim to help parents and teens more effectively navigate this challenging period in adolescent development, to foster wise decision making by both parents and teens and to learn to seek the middle path.

Stopping to check the facts in the heat of the moment takes intentional and practiced effort. Facts are observed through the five senses, verifiable through other means or statements of feelings, needs or wants. Many statements we believe to be facts aren't necessarily facts. The challenge arises when we over-interpret or misinterpret the fact with a negative bias. How do we overcome this challenge?

Venting comes on a continuum from a thoughtful airing of thoughts and emotions with a trusted confidante to a self-vindicating verbal barrage on the unwitting listener. Did you know that Venting is a skill? Frequently venting frustration or anger is a form of practice—the more you do it the more skilled you become at it.