Mr. Patrick Cole also hosts the following groups:
Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy Group, Denver.
Thursday evenings 5:00PM to 6:30PM
This group is conducted under Denver DBT
This group is for the 13-17 year old age group and includes a once-monthly parent support group and regular contact with the adolescent’s individual therapist and/or psychiatrist. We are currently taking into consideration a division of the group into 13-15 and 15-17 age groups. Please call for more information about this possible division.
Cherry Creek Psychotherapy and Denver DBT are state licensed Social Work and Psychology organizations. While we do not invoice insurance companies directly, our clients are often reimbursed by their insurance companies for our DBT groups. We are happy to complete pre-authorizations with your insurance company. Please call 303.909.9054 for rates and billing procedures. This group is held at 50 South Steele Street, “B” level conference room. This group has 4 spaces currently.
Call Patrick at 303.909.9054 or Denver DBT direct at 303.507.5557.
**Please note that we will be starting a second Adolescent DBT group in the next month or so. We are currently taking names for our waiting list**
Young Adult Depression and Anxiety Support Group
Wednesday evenings from 5:00PM-6:30PM. This group is conducted under Cherry Creek Psychotherapy.
Cherry Creek Psychotherapy currently offers a Young Adult Support group (ages 18-24) with an emphasis on Dialectical and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. This group also has an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy influence. This is a process-oriented, psycho-educational group with just three remaining openings. The group meets from 5:00PM to 6:30PM on Wednesdays at the Cherry Creek offices. Please call 303.909.9054 to schedule an intake session for this group.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Addiction Treatment, Denver
Addiction and impulsivity are often intertwined. DBT teaches four sets of skills; Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance and Interpersonal Effectiveness. The goal is to improve self-awareness by slowing emotional and behavioral responses using very simple coping skills. In this way, the individual is more apt to accurately identify the current emotion. From here, the individual learns to integrate dialectic theory into their everyday lives. Dialect theory suggests that problems occur when individuals view situations, or the world in general, in extreme opposites, thereby engaging in all or nothing, right or wrong, black or white thinking. DBT seeks to find a middle ground, to lessen the distortions and find balance. In this type of therapy, we focus on the concept of radical acceptance and change. It teaches that we cannot avoid discomfort in life, but we can learn skills to tolerate discomfort, and work to change our perceptions of it. That is, it becomes acceptable to have negative feelings or emotions, and not engage in self-defeating or self-harming behaviors such as the abuse of substances. DBT is simple, practical and therefore easily grasped.
We teach the skills and emphasize the importance of practicing them, in order to realize their benefits. As mastery of skills is developed, the individual begins to experience self-efficacy and self-actualization. In time, the skills become a working part of the individual’s daily existence, and engaging specific skills for difficult situations, becomes second nature. The events and situations that once gave rise to problems, result in more reasonable, even wise ways of being. Rather quickly, the individual practicing DBT skills is different.
Individual DBT is also available at Cherry Creek Psychotherapy in Denver. Please call Patrick Cole, LCSW to learn more about the benefits of learning the skills in this way. 303.909.9054.