I recently returned from an amazing weekend with The Gottman Summit in Seattle, Washington. There were so many great take-aways about emotion and relationships and I wanted to share a few: Emotion research by Dr. Robert Levenson from UC Berkeley finds that when we suppress our emotional expression, i.e. keep a blank face when feeling… [Read More]
DBT Demystified: Part 1
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, more popularly known by its abbreviation, “DBT”, is a psychotherapy for emotion dysregulation. However, what is “emotion dysregulation”? And what does “dialectical” mean? I had the same questions when I began learning DBT in early 2007! And once I started learning and using DBT with my clients and in my own life,… [Read More]
