Openness - Flexibility - Connectedness

Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT) is an evidence based treatment for clients negatively impacted by over-control of their emotions and behaviors.

At Core, our RO-DBT intensively trained therapists:

  • utilize the RO-DBT concepts of skills training, flexible mindfulness and education, creating a willingness to be receptive and open to your environment and/or social feedback, as well as acceptance of emotions, thoughts and behavior. RO-DBT balances self-inquiry, empathy, and warm acceptance with behavior change.

  • provide a trauma-informed environment for our clients to learn about their mental health, to fulfill needs for skills' acquisition, and to take responsibility for their treatment.

  • tailor each treatment approach to the individual client.

The RO-DBT method is successful in working with clients with many different mental health challenges including chronic depression, treatment resistant anxiety disorders, certain personality disorders, and anorexia nervosa.

If your life is being negatively impacted by any of the following, this treatment may help.

  • Treatment-Resistant Depression

  • Chronic Anxiety

  • Anorexia Nervosa

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

  • Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

  • Other Personality Disorders such as Hyper-Perfectionism, Autism or Aspergers

Clients with a combination of any of these symptoms, in extremes, report the following unintended and often undesired consequences or behaviors: social isolation, aloof and distant relationships, cognitive rigidity, high detailed focused processing, risk aversion, strong needs for structure, inhibited emotional expression, and hyper-perfectionism.

 

What to Expect with RO-DBT

+ Session 1

The first session serves as an orientation and introduction to your commitment to therapy with a collaborative stance. The agenda for the first session will usually encompass the following:

  • Client provides background to determine “fit” for treatment
  • If Core is a fit, then we will assess if there are maladaptive behaviors to work on if the client agrees they are problematic
  • Client provides history of suicidal and self-harm behaviors
  • Therapist obtains commitment from client that they will return for at least one session to discuss any urges or thoughts to quit therapy.

+ Session 2

  • We will introduce the idea of the potential importance of discussing past history.
  • We will ask for a commitment to attend RO-DBT class the following week.

+ Sessions 3-4

  • We will focus on the RO-DBT neuro-biosocial theory of overcontrol and hypothesized mechanism for change.
  • We will begin to identify value goals.
  • We will orient you to the RO-DBT Diary Card.

+ Sessions 5-29

By our fifth meeting, an individual therapy working phase will begin that includes working through everything previously introduced.

WHAT IS RO-DBT?

RO-DBT is a trans-diagnostic treatment developed by Dr. Tom Lynch, PhD. It is designed to address a spectrum of difficult-to-treat disorders that share similar features associated with maladaptive over-control.

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Want to learn more about Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy?

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For years, cognitive behavioral treatment was associated with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), developed by Marsha Linehan, PhD. This treatment was originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, but over the years, Dr. Thomas Lynch has introduced a new breakthrough therapy, referred to as Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT).