Stonewall Institute provides mental health counseling services for people who are struggling with depression, trauma, anxiety, and more severe mental health issues. We also provide Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, to our clients as well.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a system of therapy originally developed to treat persons with borderline personality disorder (BPD) by Marsha M. Linehan, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington.  DBT combines standard cognitive-behavioral techniques for emotion regulation and reality-testing with concepts of distress tolerance, acceptance, and mindful awareness largely derived from Buddhist meditative practice. DBT is the first therapy that has been experimentally demonstrated to be effective for treating BPD. Research indicates that DBT is also effective in treating patients who present varied symptoms and behaviors associated with spectrum mood disorders, including self-injury.  Recent work suggests its effectiveness with sexual abuse survivors  and chemical dependency.

If you are interested in Stonewall Institute‘s counselor phoenix arizona services or dialectical behavior therapy, contact us today at 602-535-6468.