Distress Tolerance

Steps to secure your place

1. Book a call with our Intake Manager (see below)

2. Enrol in Program

About DBT

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive behavioural therapy that aims to assist people to live in the moment, regulate emotions, cope with stress and have healthier relationships with others. 

About Distress Tolerance

This course focuses on developing skills to cope in a crisis, to tolerate painful, unpleasant and uncomfortable emotions, and manage urges to engage in harmful behaviours. This module teaches the skills for increasing our options to effectively manage and/or accept the difficult situations which life presents to us.

How the course is structured?

This DBT course teaches specific skills across the core learning modules. There is a strong focus on practising new behaviours and skills while engaging in DBT treatment as a way to gain relief and experience positive change. 

The online materials will provide you with the learning content, and then you will come together weekly to practice those skills and solidify your learning in our group workshop. The skills you will learn in this online course are highly effective, in fact, it is the DBT skills modules that have been shown to be the most effective part of DBT.

For our group sessions to be most effective, we require minimum number of participants to go ahead. If we have not reached minimum numbers by the date of the first session, we will let you know and offer a full refund or alternative dates.

Please note a comprehensive DBT treatment program would also involve sessions with an individual therapist. If you don't already have a therapist you are working with, please enquire with our Intake team.

Course Contents

The nine week program is made up of the following modules:

1. Welcome and Introduction to DBT
2. Introduction to Distress Tolerance
3. Introduction to Mindfulness
4. TIP Skills
5. The DISTRACT Skills
6. The IMPROVE Skills
7. The Self-Soothe Skills
8. The Radical Acceptance Skills
9. Mindfulness of Current Thoughts

Each of these skill builder modules is delivered online using multimedia materials including video, readings, interactive worksheets and quizzes. They are broken down into:

• Tune In - We will start each module with a Mindfulness exercise and self-reflection on the learning objective 
• Learn - Introducing each skill builder with a short video and other materials to increase your knowledge
• Skill Up - Putting the skills you’ve learnt into practice for active learning
• Practice - Reflect on and apply the skills you have learnt
• Connect - Provide comments on the moderated community forum to offer up your learnings and learn from others
• Learn - Skill summary and extra resources are provided to further consolidate learning

Each week you will come together at the group workshop with your DBT facilitator to discuss your learnings and put these skills into practice.