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Find your path. Live a life worth living.

HELLO AND WELCOME.

At Iris DBT, we believe in providing dialectical behavior therapy through a compassionate lens that emphasizes working collaboratively and meeting the client where they are.

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Our Services

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COMPREHENSIVE DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY

Individual Therapy

We offer therapy for teens and adults from a variety of backgrounds, coping with a range of issues, including BPD, neurodivergence, LGBTQ*+ community, trauma, and more.

Skills Group

DBT skills group is a weekly skills class where you can learn the DBT skills, and is an important part of comprehensive DBT. In DBT skills group, you will have the chance to learn mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills.

Phone Coaching

We know that most change happens outside the therapy room, and we offer phone coaching for the moments where it feels too challenging to figure out what to do. Phone coaching in DBT involves the ability to contact your therapist outside of weekly sessions for brief calls to help you get through challenging moments.

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IMMIGRATION EVALUATIONS

Mental health evaluations are psychosocial assessments conducted by a licensed mental health professional, often used to support legal immigration-related cases (i.e. U Visa, T Visa, Asylum, and VAWA petitions, and Hardship Waivers). These involve a full clinical assessment, interpretation of symptoms, and DSM 5 diagnoses.

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SITE-BASED TRAININGS & SEMINARS

Trainings and seminars can be provided upon request across a variety of topics, individualized to your site and population. Topics that I frequently cover are:

Vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue for educators, therapists, and other high stress, high sensitivity jobs
Effective practices working with teens
Neurodivergent-affirming social skills for adolescents

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Courses

Bettercope BPD recovery courses

Bettercope is a specialized support course developed by a team of clinicians and advocates with BPD for individuals with BPD. Our courses help you learn more about the disorder and how to manage its symptoms to live a fulfilling life.

We also know that mental illness doesn’t just affect an individual, which is why we developed an additional course for supporters of an individual with BPD.

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Testimonials

She makes me feel heard and helps me work on things to become a better version of myself without feeling judged. I feel like I can explore my personal growth in a safe space, and really, what more can you ask for?

-Client

Lena is a wonderful therapist and person. She has quality training and experience in working with trauma, high conflict issues, co parenting and individuals and child therapy. Her work reflects her values of social justice, inner reflection and kindness.

-Colleague

Lena is so kind and caring. She makes me feel heard and justified in my feelings. It’s such a relief to have someone who allows me to unload all of my worries and troubles in such a nonjudgemental and safe space. Lena has helped me immensely and I’m so grateful to have found her!

-Client

about me

Welcome to my practice.

I’m glad you’re here.

My name is Lena and I am a DBT therapist who specializes in helping individuals find the skills to manage distress and painful emotions, and find a life worth living.

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