Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Radically Open DBT is a therapeutic approach that emphasizes the importance of openness and acceptance. It encourages clients to embrace uncertainty, challenge rigid beliefs, and cultivate a sense of curiosity and wonder. By fostering a more open mindset, clients can develop greater flexibility, resilience, and the ability to navigate life's challenges with greater ease. I incorporate RO principles into my sessions to support clients when appropriate.

I am intensively trained in RO-DBT, lead weekly skills classes, and provide adherent RO-DBT individual therapy. RO is geared towards over-controlled people who find their perfectionism to be maladaptive at times, to feel overwhelmed, emotionally lonely, burnt out, find their rigid, black-and-white, or overly rule-governed thinking and behavior to be getting in the way of your relationships or overall well-being.

I am a qualified RO-DBT Practitioner and have completed all three levels of RO-DBT through the Radically Open Institute. I facilitate a skills class for parents and adults to assist clients in increasing flexibility, openness, and connectedness.

RODBT Level 2 Training (2023-24) RODBT Level 1 Training (2022)

Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (RO DBT) is an empirically based therapy that effectively treats people with emotional loneliness. I offer individual RO DBT and RO Skills Classes, where participants learn skills help increase openness to new experiences, flexibility in an ever changing environment, and social connectedness. RO DBT also informs the work that I do as an art therapist.

I am level-II trained in Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy blended learning program.

I am level 3 trained in Radically Open DBT. RO DBT is a great treatment to help clients learn flexibility, openness, social connection and to reduce emotional restraint, cognitive rigidity and behavioral control.

I encourage clients to use the worksheets and structure of RO DBT to build skills and gain mastery.

RO-DBT is a 30-week individual/group intervention designed to address overcontrol, or Stress Response System patterns that rely on excessive self-control. It is focused on Radical Openness, or openness to change and a commitment to reframing unwanted or distressing bodily sensations, emotions, or thoughts as opportunities for growth and learning. Clients will learn to regulate their nervous systems and engage in authentic social signaling.

I am a qualified RO-DBT Practitioner and have completed all three levels of RO-DBT through the Radically Open Institute. I facilitate a skills class for parents and adults to assist clients in increasing flexibility, openness, and connectedness. I utilize this treatment for clients with restrictive eating disorders, OCD, anxiety, and depression.