DBT, for emotions that hit fast and hard.
Practical skills for big feelings, rough moments, and the relationships caught in between.
Teens 15+ & adults · Colorado Springs practice · Sliding scale
Some people feel things at full volume. A comment at work wrecks the whole day. An argument goes from zero to slammed door before anyone knows what happened. Afterward comes the shame, and the promise to handle it better next time.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy was built for exactly this. The "dialectical" part means holding two things at once: you're doing the best you can, and you can learn to do it differently. Both are true, and DBT doesn't make you pick.
The work is practical. You learn specific skills, practice them between sessions, and bring back what happened.
Skills you can actually use.
- Mindfulness
- Distress tolerance
- Emotion regulation
- Asking for what you need
- Big emotions, fast
- Feeling out of control
- Relationship blowups
- Teens and adults
DBT here is individual therapy using DBT skills, not a full DBT program with a skills group.
Two therapists who use it.
Adriana Falls, LPCC uses DBT with women, teen girls 15 and up, and nonbinary clients, often alongside trauma and addiction recovery work. Ebony Trotter, LPC draws on DBT with teens and adults, especially for emotional dysregulation, anxiety and depression.
If you're in crisis or thinking about hurting yourself, call or text 988 any time. Rates, insurance and the sliding scale are on the rates page.
Start with one call.
A free 20-minute call. Tell us what keeps happening, and we'll talk about whether DBT skills fit.