What are the requirements for being in a skills training group?
1) You have to have an individual therapist and you have to be seeing them as often as they recommend. It doesn’t matter if that therapist isn’t doing DBT with you, but they must be willing to support your DBT work. Your individual therapist doesn’t have to be a Lakeview Center for Psychotherapy therapist. 2) You have to meet with Katie Magrino, the DBT Skills Group leader, once individually before joining a group. In that meeting, you’ll hear more about what DBT is and decide together whether it might be beneficial for you. If so, you’ll make a formal commitment to being a DBT group member. You’ll also set initial “target behaviors.” These are things that you do when you experience strong emotion that you’d like to stop doing.
