September is Suicide Prevention Month and WJCS would like everyone to know that there is help available for anyone struggling with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a cutting-edge, evidence-based treatment that combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approaches and Eastern philosophies, like mindfulness, to reduce suicidality and help individuals build a life worth living.
DBT can help with:
• Regulating intense, painful emotions
• Controlling life-threatening and life- interfering behaviors, including suicide
• Managing difficult interpersonal relationships
• Fostering more life balance
Why DBT? DBT is the treatment of choice for people who have struggled to find relief in traditional psychotherapy or have found themselves in and out of various treatment settings. DBT is a well-established, well-researched treatment shown to be useful in helping people with a range of mental health and substance use concerns, as well as self-injurious behaviors and suicidality. WJCS offers DBT in both individual counseling and group therapy settings.
What do those who have participated in DBT have to say?
• “Participation in this DBT group for over a year and a half and my work with my therapist has quite literally saved my life. I truly feel as if I have been offered and am taking advantage of starting over in a new life of awareness.”
• “It has shown me that there is another way to handle life’s everyday struggles.”
• “Mindfulness helps me stay on track even when I don’t want to, and allows me to cope with situations that in the past could have led me down a path of destruction.”
To learn more about DBT, call the WJCS Mental Health Clinic closest to your home:
Hartsdale Family Mental Health Center (914) 949-6761
Mt. Vernon Family Mental Health Clinic (914) 668-8938
Peekskill Family Mental Health Clinic (914) 737-7338
Yonkers Family Mental Health Center (914) 423-4433
To learn more about suicide prevention. Click Here.
If you or someone you know is feeling suicidal, call the 24-hour National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at:
(800) 273-8255.
