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Dr Sheri Jacobson
DBT is an evidence-based therapy designed to help manage overwhelming emotions, improve relationships, and build a life worth living. It's particularly effective for those facing challenges like borderline personality disorder (BPD), self-harm, emotional instability, and interpersonal difficulties.
DBT is particularly effective if you experience:
Take the first step toward balance and emotional resilience.
Dialectical behaviour therapy gives you the tools to finally gain control of your emotions and reactions. It does this by focussing on four key skills:
Each DBT therapist at Harley Therapy is fully accredited by a reputable British association and brings at least ten years of professional experience to their practice.
To find out how DBT therapy can help you, call confidentially on 0345 474 1724 for free concierge booking support or use our easy online booking form for your first therapy session.
Whether looking for a face-to-face or online appointment the booking process options are the same.
Therapy sessions last 50 minutes and our fee structure is very simple.
To make an enquiry, please fill in this confidential form. Our dedicated medical administrators will review your needs and get back to you as soon as possible.
In-person DBT therapy is available at all three of our central London locations.
Online DBT therapy is another way to seek support from an accredited therapist with Harley Therapy. All therapists offer online sessions using platforms such as Facetime, Zoom, etc.
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Therapists meet our rigorous selection criteria and highly skilled to ensure you receive the best service.
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Dialectical behaviour therapy gives you the tools to finally gain control of your emotions and reactions. It works to stop your suicidal tendencies, lower your trauma response, and raise your self respect. It does this by focussing on four key skills:
DBT is not like other therapies where you just talk about your experiences, thoughts, and feelings. Instead it's far more practical. You will be doing worksheets from a DBT workbook, engaging in skills practice, and doing homework.
While DBT is often a group therapy, or offered in a blend of group work and one-on-one sessions, it can also work just as an individual therapy.
As well as being the first talk therapy that is proven by research to help BPD (also called 'emotionally unstable personality disorder'), dialectical behaviour therapy can help for many other issues. This can include:
Often seen as a 'form of CBT', it does use elements of cognitive behavioural therapy as it teaches you to manage the link between your thoughts and actions.
But it is also its own form of hybrid therapy that also draws on dialectical thinking (seeing from different and opposing perspectives), Zen Buddhism (with its key concept of staying present), and metaphorical thinking (viewing situations practically).
DBT and CBT both help patients to recognise and change unhelpful ways of thinking so they don't lead to unhelpful behaviours. But while CBT focuses on having balanced thoughts, DBT works more on acceptance, helping your accept thoughts as just thoughts and to not judge yourself for having negative thinking.
Marsha Linehan, the creator of DBT, suffered from BPD herself and was institutionalised for her mental health issues. She acutely understood that it was hard to feel motivated to change when your sensitivity meant the very process of therapy left you feeling judged and invalidated. Dialectical behaviour therapy was created to fix this issue.
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