Beyond DBT: Sitting with Emotions

December 20, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

The wonderful thing about DBT is all of the specific tools Marsha offers us for responding to our emotions and situations. But occasionally, she is quite vague. In the handbook, she mentions “Sitting with Emotions”. But how??? Really? Marsha, how? Mostly, when people attempt to “sit with their feelings”, they end up going over and […]

explore skills: Ice and anxiety: using cold water

December 14, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

Using Cold Water and the Dive Response to calm your mind and body.

DBT Stories: Radical Acceptance

December 9, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

Radically accepting reality instead of fighting reality doesn’t mean surrender. It means you recognize and accept what you cannot change, instead of fighting reality.

This brief story explores the immediate experience of reality striking and receiving it with acceptance.

Hi! I am Diana Partington, LPC-MHSP (all those letters mean I am a licensed mental health therapist.)

And I love teaching DBT skills to people who have been struggling with overwhelming emotions. DBT is so amazing!

If you embark on this journey with me, you will learn over a 100 skills that are so effective!

And there is tons of scholarly research to back that up–DBT is helpful for depression, bipolar disorder, substance use disorder, eating disorders, issues with suicide and self harm, and borderline personality disorder.

The foundation of this kind of therapy is learning new skills for dealing with your feelings, changing how you behave, managing your relationships more effectively, breaking out of the cycle of never ending crisis.

Please do reach out, I would love the opportunity to explore how DBT can be helpful for you. We can get started with sending me an email at sufferingoptional@yahoo.com –let me know who you are and a little bit about what you need.

In the meanwhile, please get to know me a little bit. Explore this website for tons of insight into Dialectical Behavior therapy and how I teach skills.

There are so many resources here for your DBT skills journey. These skills are an amazing toolbox for overcoming the challenges of being an emotionally sensitive person.

The menu will guide you to more information about me, about groups (even sample notes from groups to give you a sense of how I teach) and working with me doing full DBT.

On my homepage, I offer three types of posts:

Explore Skills offer straight forward discussion of a particular DBT skill.

DBT Stories introduce a skill and then illustrate it with a story demonstrating effective skills use. Please note these stories include trigger warnings. Often skills are used in very distressing situations.

Beyond DBT dives deep into a DBT skill by reflecting on the work of other psychologists and thinkers.

You can contact me at sufferingoptional@yahoo.com or text me to inquire about Therapy or Group Skills Training at (615) 775-3956.