Group Therapy

Do you feel like your life is just solving problem after the other? Would you like to live your life more fully and with better connection to yourself?

Group therapy is a great option for accessible, therapeutic and continous self-growth. Read more below for our latest group therapy offering.

Sign up here for the group starting 19th October

DBT Group Therapy: Starting October 2023

Do you feel like your life is just solving problem after the other? Would you like to live your life more fully and with better connection to yourself?

The upcoming DBT course at Compass Psychology is a comprehensive 12- week course which will teach you:

How to be more present and mindful in your own life
How to improve relationships with others
How to be resilient in a crisis
More about yourself

This course is especially suitable for people who feel they might have one or more of the following problems:

Feeling like their own emotions and reactions are out of their control
Wanting to have good relationships with others but struggling
A sense of profound emptiness
Not having a good sense of who they are or a struggle with a sense of identity

This group will run for 1.5 hours at 17:00-18:30 for 12 weeks, starting Thursday 19.10. The Group size is maximum 11 and the price is 35€ per session, which is paid in 4-week blocks. Anyone interested in the DBT group work will have a free 20 min consultation call with me, to help ensure this group work is a good fit for you.

Practical Information

Dates: Thursdays starting 19th October

Venue: Vuorikatu 22 A 8, Helsinki

Time: 17.00- 18.30, Thursday evenings

Refereshments (tea/ coffee, biscuits) are provided.

What is DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)?

DBT encourages us to accept and change, but not suppress, difficult emotions, and to increase positive emotions. During the DBT group sessions, we will practice skills such as emotion regulation, effective connection and communication with others, mindfulness and distress tolerance. As opposed to talking through problems, DBT’s focus is on identifying external triggers to distressing feelings and learning healthier coping responses. We will gently and safely explore your thoughts and emotions, and where in your body you feel your emotions. We will investigate the interpretations of events that bring about distressing emotions, and how in turn these affect the type and quality of thinking. We will do this in small incremental steps, always checking you are comfortable with the process.

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive behavioural therapy that combines behavioural therapy, mindfulness-based practice and acceptance-based philosophy and practice. Research has shown DBT to be especially effective for clients struggling with impulsivity, self-harming tendencies and difficulties in regulating their emotions, such as those with borderline personality disorder (BPD). DBT has also been used to treat clients with anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders and ADHD, who have symptoms functionally similar to BPD.

DBT is not recommended for individuals with intellectual disabilities nor with treatment resistant psychotic disorders. Individuals who are unable to control open hostility toward others are also not suitable for these group sessions.

Anyone interested in the DBT group work will have a free 20 min consultation call with Jenine, to help ensure this group work is a good fit for you.

Presenters

The presenters for the DBT course are Jenine Simons and Adja Nixon. Jenine is a registered medical doctor with DBT therapy training and Adja is a recent Masters student of Counselling Psychology at York University in Canada.