Comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy
At Iris DBT, we offer a comprehensive DBT program that is available via telehealth to clients in the state of California. DBT has significant evidence from research studies showing its effectiveness in helping individuals who struggle with self-destructive and impulsive behaviors, relationship challenges, addiction, self-harm, and emotion regulation.
Comprehensive DBT includes the following for the client:
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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. Individual therapy is conducted over telehealth, typically on a weekly basis for about 50 minutes.
$225 per 50-minute session
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DBT skills group is a weekly skills class where you can learn the DBT skills and is an important part of comprehensive DBT. Unlike a therapy group where you come to process with other members about problems, a DBT skills group has a psychoeducational class format focused on learning and practicing effective skills.
In DBT skills group, you will have the chance to learn mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. Skills are taught in a series of three modules for about two months each. Completing a full series of skills class takes approximately 6 to 8 months.
Skills groups currently on hold. I recommend Therahive for DBT skills groups. https://www.therahive.com/
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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. The purpose of phone coaching is to help you generalize the skills learned in sessions to your everyday life. Each therapist has their own limits with availability in phone coaching and will discuss those with clients at the appropriate time.
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, all of which is provided in a written report to the client’s attorney. These evaluations are available in English, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese; for other languages, we request that you provide your own translator.
$750 for Asylum, UVisa, TVisa, and VAWA evaluations
$1000 for Hardship Waiver
Includes assessment and report
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.
“From a dialectical perspective the big picture includes recognition that everything is interconnected, that change is constant, and that nothing is permanent. When we are able to step back from catastrophizing—perhaps after taking a cold shower or running on a treadmill for twenty minutes, or after weeks of tolerating uncertainty—we can see that there is much more to the picture than the narrow, scary perspective on which we have been fixated.”
