Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Oklahoma City
DBT Skills Group
DBT Skills Groups can be life-changing for anyone who struggles with big emotions, impulsive behaviors, or relationship stress, not just those with a Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis. You don’t need a label to benefit from learning how to cope more effectively. The only requirement is that you’re also working with an individual therapist.
These groups are psychoeducational, not group therapy. That means we focus on learning and practicing practical skills to apply to your real-life situations. While group members may share the context behind needed skills, the focus is not deep emotional processing or rehashing trauma.
In DBT Skills Group, we cover four key areas:
1) Emotion Regulation
- Why do emotions feel so big sometimes?
- What are emotions trying to tell us?
- When do we ride the wave, and when do we use opposite action?
2) Interpersonal Effectiveness
- How do we ask for what we need while still respecting others?
- How do we maintain boundaries, build healthy relationships, and let go of toxic ones?
3) Distress Tolerance
- How do we survive intense emotions or stress without making things worse?
- What can we do instead of acting impulsively when everything feels like too much?
4) Mindfulness
- How do we stay present when our brain wants to live in the past or future?
- How can we observe our thoughts without getting swallowed by them?
Group Logistics:
- Skills groups are closed groups of around eight members. This means that individuals cannot pop in and out as they please (like an AA group where anyone can attend).
- Skills groups meet every week for 90 minutes.
- Skills groups are contracted in 6-month cycles, though many members choose to attend the group for 12-18 months.
Group Fees: Skills groups are $50/week.
Note: These are psychoeducational groups and are not billed through insurance.
To inquire about upcoming group availability, reach out to Hannah directly at hannahbarneslcsw@gmail.com. Once confirmed, you’ll be sent a Group Registration Form.
DBT Skills Intensives
Weekend intensives are available upon request for individuals, caregivers, or families who want a more focused, condensed skills experience. These are a great option for those with limited weekly availability or those looking to support a loved one in DBT.
Making Sense of Your Worth Group
Making Sense of Your Worth is an eight-week group designed to help you build positive self-worth and healthy attachment.
Low self-worth doesn’t always look like low confidence. It can show up as people-pleasing, burnout, shame, perfectionism, fear of rejection, emotional shutdown, or struggling to believe you deserve more. Without realizing it, our sense of worth impacts how we set boundaries, how we parent or lead, how we love, and how we heal.
This group offers a safe space to gently explore where those beliefs came from and begin the process of replacing old shame narratives with truth, self-compassion, and hope. The group includes psychoeducation, guided reflection, crafts/creative activities, and space to share.
Over the eight-week program, we explore:
- Attachment
- Met and unmet needs.
- Physical safety and felt safety.
- Adverse childhood experiences.
- Lies we’ve been told (and internalized).
- The shame we carry.
- Finding and befriending our true selves.
- Replacing lies with truth.
- Forgiveness (of self and others).
Group Logistics:
- The group runs for 8 consecutive weeks, and sessions are 2 hours long.
- The group is limited to 8 members for safety and connection
- All materials are included.
Group Cost:
- $30 registration fee (covers program book + materials).
- $400 program fee-
- Pay in full ($360 with/ 10% discount).
- Or pay weekly: $50/week for 8 weeks.
- Note: These are psychoeducational groups and are not billed through insurance.
To inquire about upcoming group availability, reach out to Hannah directly at hannahbarneslcsw@gmail.com. Once confirmed, you’ll be sent a Group Registration Form.
This program was created by Cindy R. Lee in partnership with HALO Project International and is used with full attribution.