About the Program:

• Format: Live, interactive online group sessions.

• Duration: 21 weeks, with 1.5-hour weekly sessions every Thursday (starting in February – exact date and time to be confirmed).

• Initial Consultation: Before joining, participants will attend an intake session with one of our psychologists. This session costs $222.99 and ensures our psychologist can get to know you and ensure the program is tailored to your needs.

• Payment: The cost is approximately $95 per session. Payment for each module must be made upfront to secure your place in the program. Flexible funding options include NDIS, private health insurance, and Medicare rebates for up to 10 sessions (rebate of $33.60 per session).

What You’ll Learn:

The program covers four core DBT modules:

1. Mindfulness: Develop present-moment awareness and balance your emotional state.

2. Emotion Regulation: Understand and manage intense emotions effectively.

3. Distress Tolerance: Navigate crisis situations calmly and constructively.

4. Interpersonal Effectiveness: Build healthy relationships and communicate assertively.

Eligibility Criteria:

To ensure the program is a good fit:

• Age: Participants must be 18 years or older.

• Suitable for: Individuals with BPD, PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, trauma, or those seeking to manage emotions, improve relationships, and handle distress effectively.

• Mental Health Status: No active suicidal risk or psychiatric hospitalizations within the past 12 months.

• Commitment: Ability to attend all 21 weekly sessions.

• Ongoing Individual Support: Must have an individual psychologist. If you don’t, we can connect you with one of our experienced psychologists, as research shows DBT is most effective with both group and individual therapy.

Referral: Not required to join, but a GP referral is necessary to claim Medicare rebates.

DBP Group Program Outline

Module 1 - Orientation and Mindfulness

Week 1 – Orientation, rules, meet and greet, diary cards, Mindfulness intro,

Week 2 –Three states of mind, What skills, How skills

Week 3 – Loving kindness, Dialectics, Balancing doing mind vs being mind, Walking the middle path

Module 2 – Emotion Regulation

Week 1 – Understand and name emotions – model of emotions

Week 2 – Change emotional Response – Check the facts

Week 3 – Change emotional Response – Opposite action and Problem Solving

Week 4 – Decrease emotional vulnerability – ABC PLEASE

Week 5 – Mindfulness of current emotions and Managing extreme emotions

Week 6 – Review

Module 3 – Distress Tolerance

Week 1 – Crisis skills, STOP and Pros and Cons

Week 2 – TIPP

Week 3 - ACCEPTS and Self-soothe

Week 4 – IMPROVE

Week 5 – Radical Acceptance

Week 6 - Review

Module 4 – Interpersonal Effectiveness

Week 1 - DEAR MAN

Week 2 – GIVE and FAST

Week 3 - Building Relationships - Finding people and getting them to like you and Mindfulness of others

Week 4 - Ending destructive relationships

Week 5 – Walking the middle path – Dialectics, Validation and Behaviour Change skills

Week 6 – Review

Reserve Your Place or Learn More:

If you’d like to reserve your place or have any questions please contact us at 1800 749 124 or email info@livingdreamsdisability.com.au.