Awake DBT

🚨 Upcoming DBT Training Alert! 🚨

Level up your skills in working with emotionally dysregulated clients with proven DBT strategies! Join Awake DBT and Bay Area Clinical Associates for an exclusive one-day training session.

🗓 When: Friday, October 25, 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM PST
📍 Where: Attend in-person or virtually
🍽 Bonus: Lunch provided for in-person attendees!
🎓 Earn CE Credits with expert instructors Jaclyn Gordon, MFT, and Yvette Duarte, MFT-BCAT (both Linehan DBT Board-Certified).

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your practice!

👉 Register now: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxkrKqVkQHX0wvHM86y63edpIBlGL62FS2hkLH8As0Zl5T5g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Unveiling our transformed website www.awakedbt.com, where direct booking is simple, resources are abundant, and our professional blog shines! ✨🤩

Awake DBT Awake Dialectical Behavior TherapyAwake DBT is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Program™, the first in Northern California. Our founders are DBT-Linehan Board, Certified Clinicians™ with the rest of the team in process of becoming certified. The team at Awake DBT look forward to h...

Thank you Kimberly Butts- Art therapist extraordinaire- for teaching Awake DBT staff Yvette and Aditi felt art so that we can add this to our art therapy group repertoire. We worked on creating felt geodes.

Spotlight San Jose! Thank you Marian Ross for hosting and creating space for the mental health community to share resources and connect with other awesome programs. Aditi and I from Awake DBT had a blast!

Are you curious about Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) or know clients interested in learning DBT skills in a creative way? Join us for a unique opportunity at Awake DBT!

Our in-person Art Therapy Group, led by a registered and board-certified art therapist (ATR-BC) and Linehan Board Certified therapist, will meet for 8 weeks starting next Monday, 7/15, from 4-6 PM. No prior DBT experience is needed.

For more details or to register, visit our website: [www.awakedbt.com](http://www.awakedbt.com).

Announcing our new substance abuse and DBT series!!
Has alcohol and/or drugs interfered with you or a loved ones quality of life? Do you ever feel like your life is spiraling out of control because alcohol and drugs have taken over? Do you want to quit using but don't know how?

Learn DBT strategies to decrease abuse of alcohol and substances, including prescription drugs
• Methods to alleviate physical discomfort from abstinence and/or withdrawal
• Techniques to navigate urges, cravings, and temptations
• Principles of abstinence and harm reduction
• Ways to increase pleasant events without alcohol or drugs
• How to burn bridges and build newer and healthier bridges
+ WEDNESDAYS STARTING JULY 10, 5-6:30 PM ON ZOOM +
FEE: $100 PER SESSION
For more information please contact: [email protected]

New Workshop Alert! 🗓️

Awake DBT is excited to announce our 8-week DBT for Family and Friends Workshop, starting June 6! 🌟 Offered both in-person and via Zoom, this series is designed to strengthen your relationships and provide valuable skills for supporting loved ones in treatment.

📆 Starts: June 6
📅 Duration: 8 Weeks
📍 Available In-Person and on Zoom

Don't miss this chance to build a supportive community and enhance your connections. Register now by emailing [email protected] or DM us!

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 Awake is thrilled to launch our Summer Workshop Series! 🌞 Whether you're prepping for college, a loved one seeking DBT support, or exploring substance abuse recovery with a DBT focus, we've got you covered. Don't miss our highly popular DBT-Art Therapy group, led by our amazing CEO and founder, Yvette Duarte! 🖌️✨
(offered virtually and in person)

📧 Email [email protected] or DM us to register today!

Join us and transform your summer! 🌟 Workshops

Enroll now in Awake's adult or teen program and take advantage of our Interpersonal Effectiveness module starting soon. Contact us at [email protected] or call 408.479.4632 to schedule your first appointment. ‼️

Radical Acceptance in essence!

“Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.” - Eckhart Tolle

Helpful guide to getting started on a mindfulness practice!

What is mindfulness meditation? Put simply, it's our innate human capacity for awareness. This means that anyone can meditate—including you!

By exploring mindfulness, we discover that this practice really is for everyone. Simply being aware right now is our key to feeling focused and peaceful, creating meaningful connections, and trusting ourselves deeply, no matter what may be going on around us.

Ready to learn more and get started? Discover the mindful basics and begin your meditation journey today with our FREE How to Meditate Guide: https://loom.ly/EjQXYko

Wonderful sunny afternoon at El Camino’s Aspire’s open house! Awake DBT’s Anjali Khare Srivatsa and Yvette Duarte attended this event. What an awesome program serving people in their community🙏🏽. Thrilled for their evolution!

Marsha Linehan, the creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, devoted her life to helping people get out of emotional hell and psychological suffering - working with clients that others were unable to help. Thank you to the many clinicians who carry their clients in their hearts moving towards a life worth living. We wish you skillful means.



*Are you interested in learning more about the work of DBT-LBC? Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Youtube! Please reach out to [email protected] for more information on how to help. Please also consider a donation to DBT-LBC a gift in any amount helps link clients in need of DBT treatment with the care they deserve.

Celebrating our esteemed Senior Clinician, Veronica Botelho, MFT, on her special day. May it be filled with love, laughter & a life worth living!

What helps you turn your mind towards acceptance?

Awake DBT had the honor and pleasure of kicking off San Jose Spotlight hosted by Bay Area Clinical Associates! We presented on the effectiveness of standard DBT with Prolonged Exposure therapy. What a fabulous bunch!

As we jump frantically from one activity to another, we develop an aching sense of missing out on our lives. The remedy is to pay full attention, even in short interludes, many times a day. As a venerable old Tibetan lama said to me high up in the Himalayas, “Short moments, many times.”

• Nourish yourself! Eat a meal mindfully, noticing the colors, the flavors, the texture of what you are eating.

• Throughout the day, experiment with walking mindfully as you go from place to place. Try not to multitask, and instead allow the walking to be a means to reset and gather yourself. Feel your feet against the ground and the sense of your body moving through space. No texting or phone calls!

• Unitask by focusing on just one activity for a small portion of time, settling your attention on which touch sensation is most predominant. Perhaps the feeling of your feet against the floor, or something you are holding or transporting.

There's this misconception that if we allow sadness or grief then it will consume us and never leave.
This is far from truth. The more accepting and loving you are of your emotional pain, the sooner you realize vou are more in control than vou think. Emotions are temporary when they are truly welcomed. And just like any owner of space, you have the power of asking them to leave. So go ahead and ride that wave! 🌊

Excellent breakdown of the DBT skill Willingness v. Willfulness and how it can help you tolerate suffering and turn your mind towards change and acceptance!

The holidays can bring up a wide range of emotions for people, so for , we would like to take a few moments to practice mindfulness of emotions!

As the beginning of the holiday season approaches, take a moment to observe the emotions coming up for you. If you notice sadness, anger, or loneliness show up during this practice, simply observe the emotion coming and going. Notice where in your body you are feeling the emotions, and how long it takes for the emotion to go down. Practice acceptance for the emotions as they are.

Please feel free to share your experience in the comments below!



Are you interested in learning more about the work of DBT-LBC? Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedInand Youtube! Please reach out to [email protected] for more information on how to help. Please also consider a donation to DBT-LBC a gift in any amount helps link clients in need of DBT treatment with the care they deserve.

Sending some your way today and every day.

Becoming the loving witness allows the storm to pass. From there, we can act from calm mindful response rather than causing more wind and rain. ⛈️💨☔️

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Hello!! Awake currently has a few slots left in our adults and teen program for our Emotion regulation module starting in the next two weeks! Please message us or call our intake line to reserve your first appointment! [email protected]

Awake wants to thank New Friends Podcast for featuring our very own senior clinician Veronica Botelho, MFT as a special guest! Veronica shares her experience with mental health growing up as a first gen Portuguese-American. How her passion as an aspiring Bachatera 💃🏻 helped her reach radical acceptance, and of course… DBT and the vitalness of emotion regulation skills!
Take a listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts
(spotify link in comments)

Veronica Botelho is our next Portuguese-American guest who specializes in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)! DBT is a skills based therapy that’s been widely used to treat all types of mental health challenges. Celebrities such as Selena Gomez and Lady Gaga have received DBT treatment. DBT skills help with regulating emotions, coping with stress, and improving relationships!

Don’t forget your “half-smile” today!
How to half-smile: 1. Deep breath
2. Relax the muscles in your brows, cheeks, jaw 3. Ever-so-slightly curl up the corners of your lips 😌

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Cartoon:

Our co-founder Yvette Duarte paid a visit to long-time friend and community partner San Jose Integrative Wellness Center to share all about our comprehensive DBT program. Dr. Nangia and his team provide high quality psychiatric services along with TMS treatment! Leave us your thoughts/questions about TMS therapy! 💬

Easy as 1, 2, 3! (and repeat) ☺️

How to MEDITATE 🧘‍♂️

Step 1. focus on the breath (or chosen object)
Step 2. notice when you become distracted
Step 3. gently let go of the distraction
Step 4. begin again

DBT featured in the WP this week!

Opinion | This therapy could save lives from su***de — if more people could get it Psychologist Anthony DuBose discusses how to get Americans more help to prevent self-harm.

We currently have openings in our Young Adult, teen and adult programs! We are also launching DBT-ART therapy for adults! Call us/text (408) 479-4632, or send an inquiry through our website (awakedbt.com) to schedule an intake!

AwakeDBT | Home We specialize in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. DBT is a comprehensive treatment program that is individualized to help you with the specific struggles you face. DBT very simply helps people change their lives for the better.