Minnesota Mental Health Clinics - is a private practice association of Mental Health Professionals committed to providing the highest quality outpatient mental health services.

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We are committed to maintaining your confidentiality and safeguarding your privacy and dignity.

Participating Plans
We are a service provider for many major health plans including Blue Cross, Medica, Health Partners, Medicare, Minnesota Medical Assistance, Preferred One, Choice Plus, UCare, Managed Health Network, and Behavioral Health Care Providers.

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Group Therapy
Sometimes the best way to achieve a sense of well-being is by meeting with other people who have similar problems, under the guidance of a Mental Health Professional.

Adolescent Dialectic Behavior Therapy

How can it help?

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Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT) is designed for adolescents who have difficulty managing their emotions. It is aimed at changing the typical behavior patterns of emotionally challenged adolescents such as suicidal ideation, self-injury and other self-destructive behaviors.

DBT assumes that the adolescent wants to feel better and have a better quality of life. It is a combination of cognitive and behavioral therapy that teaches the adolescent to control emotions by developing a sense of self-acceptance. The therapist must validate and guide the adolescent to balance ways of thinking, feeling, and acting.

Our group series is an adaptation of Dialectic Behavior Therapy developed by Marsha Linehan, PhD Professor of Psychology and an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.

If a youth answers yes to one or more of the following questions, they could benefit from the DBT approach:

Do you become easily overwhelmed and not know how to calm yourself?

Do you feel suicidal or have thoughts of hurting yourself?

Do you often feel “out of control” and have a difficult time slowing yourself down?

	Do you experience intense conflicts in your relationships with friends and family?
	Do you feel empty and bored much of the time?
	Do you experience sudden and strong mood swings?
	Do you have trouble controlling your anger and have frequent outbursts or physical fights?
	Do you have an inability to regulate your emotions?

Clients who attend DBT Skills Training will learn skills to:

	Manage intense feelings
	Stop abusing themselves
	Stay our of emotional crisis
	Stabilize their moods
	Build more stable relationships
	Cope with stress
	Enhance their self-esteem

Skills Taught include:

	Interpersonal Effectiveness - to make relationships more successful.
	Emotion Regulation - to reduce mood swings.
	Distress Tolerance - to reduce impulsive and self-harming behaviors.
	Mindfulness - to increase self awareness.

DBT Skills Training is designed to teach new skills. It cannot provide the kind of support and insight required to integrate these skills into your everyday life.

Therefore, it is required that you are also seeing an individual therapist regularly.

You will benefit most if your therapist has DBT experience and training.

Adolescent DBT meets once a week on Monday in the evening from 6:30 to 8 pm. Group size is limited to ten.

Health insurance plans usually pay for group therapy. Clients without insurance coverage may be eligible for a sliding fee.

To Schedule an Appointment Call 651-454-0114

At your request, we will contact you confidentially to discuss the program and set an appointment time.