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EMDR vs. DBT: Which Therapy Is Right for Your Trauma History?
EMDR vs. DBT: Which Therapy Is Right for Your Trauma History?
DBT - May 20, 2026

EMDR vs. DBT: Which Therapy Is Right for Your Trauma History?

Comparing EMDR vs. DBT can feel overwhelming when you’re trying to find the right trauma therapy, but understanding how each approach works makes the decision clearer. This guide breaks down the key differences between these two evidence-based treatments, explaining what each therapy feels like in practice and which trauma histories and healing goals each one tends to serve best.

Where Can I Find DBT Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder in South Florida?
DBT - Apr 14, 2026

Where Can I Find DBT Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder in South Florida?

If you’re struggling with intense emotions and relationship difficulties in South Florida, specialized therapy for borderline personality disorder can help. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has proven highly effective for BPD, and this guide explains what makes DBT work, how to find qualified providers in your area, and what treatment options beyond traditional weekly sessions are available to support your recovery journey.

Should I Consider Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Emotional Regulation Issues?
DBT - Jan 8, 2026

Should I Consider Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Emotional Regulation Issues?

Struggling with intense emotions can make daily life feel unpredictable and overwhelming. Many people ask whether Dialectical Behavior Therapy for emotional regulation issues could help them feel more balanced and in control. At Delray Center for Healing, DBT is one…

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): What to Expect from Treatment
DBT - Aug 8, 2025

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): What to Expect from Treatment

If you’re looking for mental health treatment in South Florida, you may have come across DBT therapy Delray Beach programs as an option. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective, evidence-based treatment designed to help individuals struggling with emotional…

How a DBT Group Can Support Your Addiction Recovery Journey
DBT - Jun 10, 2025

How a DBT Group Can Support Your Addiction Recovery Journey

Finding the right tools and support system for addiction recovery can make all the difference. One powerful and evidence-based approach is joining a DBT group. At Delray Center for Healing, our DBT groups offer structured guidance, community support, and practical…

How DBT Group Therapy Supports Long-Term Mental Health Recovery
DBT - May 9, 2025

How DBT Group Therapy Supports Long-Term Mental Health Recovery

DBT Group Therapy is a powerful and proven tool in supporting long-term mental health recovery. For individuals dealing with complex emotional challenges, such as borderline personality disorder (BPD), depression, anxiety, PTSD, and self-destructive behaviors, DBT Group Therapy provides structured, skill-based…

Can a DBT Program Help Me? Benefits of DBT
DBT - Nov 10, 2022

Can a DBT Program Help Me? Benefits of DBT

The Delray Center for Healing offers a DBT program to help people with a variety of mental health issues. This program utilized DBT, or dialectical behavioral therapy, and uses a number of modules that are successful in helping people living…

Acronyms Used in Treatment for Mental Health
DBT, Mental Health - Jul 8, 2022

Acronyms Used in Treatment for Mental Health

When it comes to the mental health treatment industry, there are a number of words that are used by medical staff and specialists that the average person wouldn’t know. So, there may be phrases and acronyms that help to identify…

Exploring the Link Between ADHD and Eating Disorders
DBT, Eating Disorders - Apr 18, 2022

Exploring the Link Between ADHD and Eating Disorders

People who are diagnosed with mental health issues can also experience other mental health issues. Therefore, experiencing signs and symptoms of concurring mental health issues at the same time. There are some mental health issues that are more commonly paired…

How DBT Treatment Helps to Prevent Self-Harm
DBT - Apr 5, 2022

How DBT Treatment Helps to Prevent Self-Harm

Raising awareness of self-harm is important as living with psychiatric illnesses increases the risk of self-harming behaviors. When people struggling with mental health issues understand the dangers, they’re more willing to get the help they need through treatment. Plus, when…

A Guide to the Ins and Outs of DBT Therapy
DBT, Mental Health - Dec 30, 2020

A Guide to the Ins and Outs of DBT Therapy

DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, is a type of therapy that helps in the treatment of a variety of diagnosed mental health conditions. It teaches individuals valuable skills that can aid in the changing of negative thinking and behavioral patterns…

Understanding DBT Modules: Interpersonal Effectiveness
DBT - Mar 19, 2019

Understanding DBT Modules: Interpersonal Effectiveness

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a highly effective form of psychotherapy. It helps to treat a range of mental disorders from depression to substance abuse. DBT is a modified form of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) that helps teach people a number…

Understanding DBT Modules: Emotional Regulation
DBT - Feb 12, 2019

Understanding DBT Modules: Emotional Regulation

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was specifically developed for individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder, suicidal thinking, and self-harm, but has grown into one of the most widely used forms of therapy today. This form of psychotherapy is now used to treat…

3 DBT Skills Everyone Can Benefits from Learning
DBT - Jan 28, 2019

3 DBT Skills Everyone Can Benefits from Learning

DBT skills aren’t just for those struggling with mental health concerns Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy that has been proven to be highly effective in treating a range of mental health issues. Originally created to treat…

Understanding DBT Modules: Distress Tolerance
DBT - Jan 9, 2019

Understanding DBT Modules: Distress Tolerance

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is one of the most popular forms of therapy used today. This psychotherapy practice helps treat patients with a number of mental health disorders, such as bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, and depression. This therapy is comprised of…

3 Interesting Facts About the Creator of DBT
DBT - Dec 28, 2018

3 Interesting Facts About the Creator of DBT

The Creator of DBT, Marsha Linehan, drew directly from her own experiences in creating this unique therapeutic approach Dialectical Behavior Therapy has helped millions since it was introduced to the mental health community. It’s only been around since the late…

Understanding DBT Modules: Mindfulness
DBT - Dec 10, 2018

Understanding DBT Modules: Mindfulness

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of therapy used by mental health professionals. This form of psychotherapy assists with treating a wide range of mental health disorders; although it was initially developed to treat borderline personality…

4 Ways DBT Helps with Self Harm
DBT - Nov 27, 2018

4 Ways DBT Helps with Self Harm

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, places emphasis on improving emotional regulation and distress tolerance, two factors that contribute to self harm in patients Self harm patients are individuals who hurt themselves without the intent of committing suicide. Typical displays of self-harming…

Can DBT Help with Addiction?
DBT - Nov 19, 2018

Can DBT Help with Addiction?

Close to 21 million people suffer from addiction, but only less than 10% ever receive help. Traditional treatments for addiction include therapy and medication, but these treatments often don’t take into account dual-diagnosis that typically accompany addiction. Dialectical behavior therapy…

Selena Gomez Receiving DBT Treatments
DBT - Oct 16, 2018

Selena Gomez Receiving DBT Treatments

Singer and actress, Selena Gomez, is reportedly seeking mental health treatments, like DBT treatment, after an “emotional breakdown”. Gomez has been open about her struggles with lupus and mental health. In 2016, she announced she was taking time off to…

Tools Commonly Used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
DBT - Aug 27, 2018

Tools Commonly Used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a form of psychotherapy that helps treat a range of disorders. It is helpful in treating individuals that need help changing patterns of behavior or are unable to control their emotions. Patients can learn emotional…

The Four Stages of Dialectical Behavior Therapy
DBT - Aug 7, 2018

The Four Stages of Dialectical Behavior Therapy

DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, is a highly effective form of therapy that treats many different disorders. In DBT, people are taught two seemingly different and opposite strategies; acceptance and change. Patients are taught to accept that their experiences, emotions,…

DBT Effective in Reducing Suicide Amongst Teens
DBT - Jul 10, 2018

DBT Effective in Reducing Suicide Amongst Teens

A recently publish trail provides shows that dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is the first well-established and empirically supported treatment for reducing suicide attempts and self-harm in teenagers. Dialectical behavior therapy is an intense form of cognitive-behavioral therapy that teaches people…

Is DBT Group Therapy Right For You?
DBT - Jun 12, 2018

Is DBT Group Therapy Right For You?

How to determine if DBT group therapy is right for you Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an intense form of cognitive-behavioral group therapy. It was originally created to treat Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) but has since been adopted as a…

Celebrities That Have Borderline Personality Disorder
DBT - May 29, 2018

Celebrities That Have Borderline Personality Disorder

We talk a lot about how dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) can help with a range of mental disorders, but especially borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD isn’t often in the same discussion as much of the mental health discussion focusing on…

What Conditions Does DBT Treat?
DBT - Apr 26, 2018

What Conditions Does DBT Treat?

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy that focuses on high risk and tough to treat patients. Patients often have multiple diagnoses and haven’t responded to other treatments. Although DBT was initially created to treat Borderline Personality…

How Long Does Dialectical Behavior Therapy Take?
DBT - Apr 3, 2018

How Long Does Dialectical Behavior Therapy Take?

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective form of therapy used to treat a range of mental disorders. DBT works towards helping people regulate their emotions and learn coping skills. It’s an intense form of therapy and not one…

Exploring The Four Components of DBT
DBT - Feb 28, 2018

Exploring The Four Components of DBT

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a popular and effective form of therapy. It was originally developed to treat Borderline Personality Disorder but has since been expanded and altered to treat people with other mental health issues. DBT may be slightly…

Understanding the Four Modules of DBT
DBT - Feb 14, 2018

Understanding the Four Modules of DBT

DBT, or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, is a form of therapy that focuses on teaching people psychosocial skills. DBT assumes that people are doing their best, but they lack the skills needed to succeed in life. This form of therapy is…

Common Dialectical Behavior Therapy Acronyms
DBT - Jan 23, 2018

Common Dialectical Behavior Therapy Acronyms

Dialectical Behavior Therapy DBT works to help patients change patterns of behavior that might be holding them back. Originally created to treat Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) it has since been adopted to work for mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, as…

Here’s What DBT Group Therapy is Actually Like
DBT - Jan 12, 2018

Here’s What DBT Group Therapy is Actually Like

When it comes to almost everything related to mental health, there is a heavy cloud of myths, stereotypes, and stigma hanging over it. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) isn’t exempt. DBT, originally created to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD), has since…

Mental Disorders That Benefit From DBT
DBT - Dec 8, 2017

Mental Disorders That Benefit From DBT

DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, is a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy that tries to identify and alter thinking patterns to push for positive behavioral changes. DBT was originally created to treat borderline personality disorder, but DBT benefits a number of other…

The Difference Between CBT and DBT
DBT - Nov 30, 2017

The Difference Between CBT and DBT

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) are two forms of talk therapy. Both forms of therapy have patients working with psychiatrists to learn and teach skills to help them manage their mental health. While they’re both highly effective…

A Complete Overview of DBT
DBT - Oct 13, 2017

A Complete Overview of DBT

Dialectical behavior therapy, commonly known as DBT, is a specific type of cognitive behavioral model in psychotherapy. It’s a highly effective form of therapy that helps to treat many mental health disorders such as depression, borderline personality disorder, and others….

The Importance of Couple and Family Therapy in Outpatient Treatment Programs
DBT, Mental Health - Apr 6, 2012

The Importance of Couple and Family Therapy in Outpatient Treatment Programs

Couple and family therapy is a branch of psychotherapy instilled in various treatment programs. These therapies work with both families and/or couples in intimate relationships to learn how to nurture change (in the terms of systems of interaction between family…

Understanding What Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Is
DBT - Jun 8, 2011

Understanding What Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Is

Developed by Marsha M. Linehan, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a system of therapy used to treat those struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD). There are a number of dialectical behavior therapy…