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Choices Counseling & Skills Center offers both full comprehensive DBT as well as DBT-Informed treatment programs and strategies. Our comprehensive programs are adherent to DBT treatment protocols. Our DBT Center has been providing DBT services in the San Gabriel Valley since 2009.

We also offer DBT skills classes as adjunct services.

Adult Program

Our comprehensive Adult DBT Program is designed for those who struggle with regulating their emotions effectively through life’s many challenges. Adults can take control of their emotions, thoughts and behaviors and make their lives or relationships tolerable.

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Adolescent Program

Our comprehensive DBT for Adolescents program provides skills training in a closed family or multi-family setting along with individual and family therapy. The focus is to help teenagers and their families better handle the challenging road to adulthood.

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DBT Skills as Add-On Services

Designed for clients who are not in one of our programs. Many can benefit from learning the skills offered in DBT, even if they are not in need of a comprehensive program. Research has indicated that the skills alone are effective in regulating emotion, increasing coping skills and decreasing depression.

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Living Success Center – San Gabriel Valley

Choices has partnered with Living Success Center, a non-profit mental health agency in Orange County, to be able to offer lower-cost comprehensive DBT services to those who meet criteria. This program utilizes pre-licenced clinicians in a DBT-specific training site to offer lower-cost services to those clients who meet financial and clinical criteria. All proceeds are given to the parent organization, Living Success Center.

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Adult Program

Our comprehensive Adult DBT Program is designed for those who struggle with regulating their emotions effectively through life’s many challenges. Adults can take control of their emotions, thoughts and behaviors and make their lives or relationships tolerable.

With adults, DBT has been effective with:
  • Depression, anxiety and rapid mood changes
  • High-risk behaviors such as raging and self-harm
  • Eating disorders and drug and/or alcohol addiction
  • Isolation, avoidance or procrastination
  • Ineffective expression of anger
  • Problems with relationships

Adolescent Program

Our comprehensive DBT for Adolescents program provides skills training in a closed family or multi-family setting along with individual and family therapy. Parents as well as their teens learn the skills, side by side. The focus is to help teenagers and their families better handle the challenging road to adulthood.

With adolescents, common behaviors treated include:
  • Defiant actions and refusals
  • Depression, anxiety and agitation
  • Relationship and communication problems
  • Mood swings which are slow to return to “normal”
  • Anger problems
  • High-risk behaviors, such as aggression, running away, truancy, property destruction, eating disorders, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and actions, along with drug and alcohol abuse
Teens learn how to take control of their lives by learning specific skills and strategies that affirm their feelings while facilitating change.

DBT Skills as Add-On Services

Many can benefit from learning the skills offered in DBT, even if they are not in need of a comprehensive program. Research has indicated that the skills alone are effective in regulating emotion, increasing coping skills and decreasing depression. Although DBT was originally researched with severe Borderline Personality Disordered clients, DBT has been widely adapted and is now being used effectively across a variety of symptoms and behaviors affecting functioning that stems from difficulty or inability to regulate emotions.

We offer entrance into our six-month DBT skills group for clients who are currently in treatment with therapists outside the DBT Center. This class is psychoeducational and considered adjunct to therapy. It follows the same lesson plan and format as the skills groups for our comprehensive program and the hope is that it will enhance the client’s current work with their individual therapist.

The DBT Skills classes will also include the opportunity for clients to measure their improvement in emotion regulation, coping skills, levels of depression, anxiety and general stress over the course of the program.

Disclaimer: Enrollment in this course requires a phone consultation with one of our skilled trainers. DBT Skills classes are not psychotherapy and should not be considered an agreement of a professional, medical, or therapeutic relationship. These classes are educational and not a substitute for treatment. They are offered to enhance movement toward current goals for personal growth. Individuals under the care of a treating clinician will be asked to confer with their provider prior to enrollment in these classes.

DBT for Children® Program

Our DBT for Children (DBT-C) program is an evidence-based protocol geared towards families of children aged 6-12, and can often be integrated with families of adolescents as well.  The program initially begins with an extensive parent-training component lasting approximately 4-6 weeks. During these weekly 90-minute sessions,  parents will learn about dialectics, behavior modification and validation techniques. Once a change-ready environment has been established, the child will then be incorporated into treatment. The frequency and length of sessions remains the same: weekly, 90-minute sessions (for approximately 24 weeks). However, the format of the sessions change and include the following 3 components:

  • Individual therapy with the child
  • Family Skills Training
  • Parent Check-In
Within our families, common behaviors treated include:
  • Tantrumming and anger
  • Task and/or homework completion
  • School problems
  • Difficulties in peer relationships
  • Defiant actions and refusals
  • Depression, anxiety and agitation
  • Boredom
  • Impulse control issues
  • Difficulty tolerating “No”
  • Transitioning between activities/tasks