Therapists may emphasize various techniques for managing adn regulatiing emotions and the ways they impact your behaviours. Your counsellor will find methods and exercises to do the following:

1) Minimizing self harming behaviours with emotional regulation techniques

2) Improving challenges related to interpersonal relationships

3) Navigating experiences of impulsivity or quick reactions

4) Gainining awareness of and managing the intensity of overwhelming emotions

DBT follows a well structured treatment model. Therapists will use several techniques including:

1) Mindfulness is typically used as a key tool, while focusing on the present moment, observing, and describing your experiences in a safe environment

2)Emotional regulation practices to support identifying and labelling emotions as a process for understanding and changing responses that lead to distress

3) Distress tolerance includes learning ways to tolerate intense emotions without acting on them impulsively through emotional arousal regulation or self-soothing

4) Interpersonal effectiveness includes a set of skills aimed to improve relationships by helping individuals express their needs and set boundaries. 

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This may be particularly effective for individuals with emotion regulation and self destructive behaviours. If you would like to learn the following items:

1) Improve emotional volatility or patterns of instability experienced in relationships

2) Find tools to manage Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

3) Seek change within and develop healthy coping strategies to manage unhealthy behaviours

4) Learn ways to effectively regulate emotions that feel really intense or overwhelming