DBT Alberta offers several treatment structures. Intake helps determine whether your main need is skills acquisition, individualized behavioural therapy, the coordinated comprehensive model, or a specialized pathway.
One-to-one behavioural treatment for personalized targets, skills application, and recurring patterns.
Structured teaching and practice across mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
A more flexible, lower-intensity format for structured DBT learning when clinically appropriate.
The full coordinated model: individual DBT, skills training, between-session coaching, and therapist consultation.
A structured skills-focused option for people who need practical emotion and distress-tolerance tools.
Re-activate DBT skills after previous training and identify where application has become difficult.
Move beyond crisis reduction toward relationships, valued goals, identity, work, and a fuller life.
Trauma-focused exposure integrated into DBT after sufficient stabilization and readiness.
A specialized approach for maladaptive overcontrol, rigidity, inhibition, and social signalling difficulties.
Youth, caregiver, and family work tailored to development, consent, safety, and the family context.
The secure intake is designed to identify the clinical question first. A clinician then explains which service appears to fit, what it includes, and what alternatives should be considered.