Teen DBT Informed Music Therapy Skills Group
Live and in person!
No Music Skills Required!
Does your teen struggle with strong emotions? Disordered eating behaviors? Addiction? Anxiety or depression? How about impulse control issues, difficulty establishing or maintaining friendships?
Gen Z gets to navigate a hot mess of issues you never had to face as a teen.
Yet, your teen won’t be taught distress tolerance skills in school. Your teen will not attend classes on mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, or emotional regulation. They will just be expected to figure it out on their own. Through a very stressful series of trial and error….
Being a Teen is HARD.
In an attempt to regulate emotions teens often turn to crappy coping mechanisms. Disordered eating, drugs, alcohol, excessive overexercise, technology addiction, relentless perfectionism or even self harm.
What is DBT?
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is an evidenced based treatment model that can support your teen in the areas of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
With DBT, your teen can learn to:
respond rather than react
decrease maladaptive coping mechanisms
regulate emotions
manage stress in a healthy way
cope with the symptoms of anxiety, depression and panic
strengthen relationships and communicate more effectively
Why Music?
Learning new information and breaking old habits is hard! Teens have a tendency to disengage from or have difficulty remembering much of what they learn in typical skills groups. Sometimes knowledge really isn’t power. Old habits are comfortable and feel easier or more accessible in the moment (even when we know a better way). With music therapy, your teen will stay engaged, have an opportunity to reinforce skills in an entertaining way, and maybe even have fun!
Facilitated by Bailey Hinz MT-BC LPMT
Enrollment in each DBT skills group will open every 8 weeks. Each 8 week block will offer one of the 4 modules of DBT to include; mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Your teen may join for one module or stick around for all 4! In order to get the most out of our DBT music therapy experience we ask that your teen commit to a minimum of 8 weeks.
DBT Skills Group is $60 per week, for 8 weeks
every Thursday night
5:15pm or 6:30pm
Ready to sign up?
If you are ready to sign up or have more questions, we want to hear from you!
Is your teen on the fence? We often get parents that contact us interested in this group, yet they struggle to gain the interest of their teen. This makes sense, your teen has enough going on, the last thing they want is another obligation with a bunch of weirdos.
We will happily speak with your teen, answer any questions, address any concerns, even help them see the potential benefits of joining us before they make the leap.