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DBT-Informed Workshop: Relationships & Emotional Skills

Facilitator: Wendy Landrian, LCSW
This is a DBT-informed skills group and not a replacement for individual therapy or a certified DBT program

Focus: Emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness for healthier romantic relationships.

A Guide to Better and More Fulfilling Relationships Using Dialectical Behavioral Techniques

Hello! My name is Wendy. I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience treating trauma, addiction, and people in toxic relationships. I have helped many clients improve self-esteem and discover what they seek in relationships while increasing their understanding of themselves and their partners.

Agenda:

I. Explanation of Dialectical Approach: Extremes, Gradients, and Continuums -Finding the Middle Path

II. Mindfulness Building

Participants will:

Discuss how knowing the self invites connection and dispels fear of vulnerability.

III. Developing Distress Tolerance

Participants will:

Learn crisis survival skills that decrease acting-out behaviors with partners.

IV. Establishing Emotional Regulation

Participants will:

Explore ways to manage painful feelings and disrupt maladaptive 'love patterns' that are built on distress and comfort seeking.

V. Implementing Interpersonal Effectiveness

Participants will:

Acquire new and healthier ways to communicate needs, set boundaries, and deepen intimacy with partners.