FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL COACHING

The importance of rest and sleep cannot be underestimated. Lack of alertness, impaired memory, increased vulnerability to emotional...

Polemic: (definition)

is not helplessness, hopelessness, or lack of change. Denial: "I can do 99 things just the way my wife says she wants them, and if the...

No matter how rough things are for you right now…Especially if it seems like there’s no end to your difficulties…You deserve relief. When...

"It is really about self awareness. We cannot be more connected to other people than we are to ourselves.”

The label, "borderline personality disorder" (BPD) is simply inscrutable. It describes nothing about this mental illness and it sounds...

This is an essential DBT Skill!

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has several definitions of anxiety:

If we can change the emotion by solving the problem, then first solve the problem! Problem solving is an emotional regulation strategy...

with OPPOSITE ACTION Opposite action is more than a skill. It is a philosophy of life. Like dialectics or radical acceptance or...

Stop Walking On Eggshells DBT Workshop for Families of persons with borderline personality disorder Summer schedule: 12 Fridays June...

Does the emotion fit the facts?

Arguably one of the most important life skills in DBT!

Parents demanded it and their call was heard. "DBT Steps-A" has been developed and tested in schools for a wide range of adolescents with...

I have attended several interesting conferences on trauma in the past year. It seems that experts from all types of psychology "lineages" are moving toward a few integrated practices. One that really makes a lot of sense is the practice of self-compassion. When we feel our discomfort, acknowledge our own pain, and put words on the physical experience of our suffering -- including emotional suffering, we are engaging of a mindful awareness of our experience. It is holding that

by Corrine Stoewsand.

Case 1: Setting Boundaries on adolescent yelling and insulting Excerpts from the live Q & A, April 7, 2022, with Randi and Corrine...

Corrine R. Stoewsand, Ph.D. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) was once used as a pejorative label by clinicians for patients who were...

Corrine Stoewsand I recently remembered being in a psychology class several years ago. It was a course on psychopathology, the psychology...

I made a mistake. I did something, perhaps an accident or perhaps it was behavior outside of my own values, and it had negative...