location: Telehealth for the Greater santa cruz, ca community

Lunchtime 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming dbt mindfulness & skills group series - ONLINE only

tuesdays 11:45a - 1:15p & thursdays 12p - 12:55 pm pacific time for 23 weeks

SUMMER 2024: NOW ASSESSING POTENTIAL CLIENTS FOR THIS GROUP.

The DBT Mindfulness & Skills Group Series is a 23-week series for adults that teaches all the core skills and tools of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to a committed group of recovering individuals. It does so through a social justice and affirming framework.

This group may be helpful for those who struggle with their own emotional volatility or hypersensitivity in their personal or professional lives, unstable friendships or relationships, disordered eating, self-harm, manipulative or coercive communication patterns OR passive or conflict-avoidant communication patterns, reactive suicidality, overwhelming helplessness or hopelessness, emotional eating, codependent interpersonal styles, compulsive sexual behaviors, gambling, or similar, and substance use issues.

Clients must be appropriate for the outpatient level of care to participate in this group.

the series includes the following:

  • Required: DBT Mindfulness & Skills Group - Tuesdays 11:45a - 1:15 pm ($75 per group)

  • Required: DBT Homework & Diary Card Review - Thursdays 12 - 1 pm ($35 per group)

  • Required: Six (6) 30-minute sessions with Kat over the course of the series to check in on progress towards treatment goals, deepen understanding of skills, homework, diary cards, and problem solve any barriers to participation ($100 per session)

  • All clients in this program receive a DBT binder with all skills, homework and diary cards and this is folded into the cost of the program

  • DBT Peer Mentors - people who have already gone through the series one or more times and who use DBT in their every day life to share their experience, strength and hope with new clients in the series

  • Social justice framework offered by Kat based on their years of learning from others that is ongoing

  • A gender affirming, queer affirming and neurodiversity affirming paradigm

  • Kat maintains two sliding scale spots per series

all clients must be assessed in order to participate in this group series.

this group can take clients only from the following states: California, Washington, Colorado and Illinois. the group is centralized in Santa Cruz and the Bay Area in California.

 

Kat Zwick (they/them, she/her) runs this group. Kat was trained in a DBT treatment program for 3 years in Chicago, and Kat has also received intensive DBT-PTSD training directly from Behavioral Tech, Marsha Linehan’s training institution. Kat has been running DBT groups and programming since 2012. They bring as much of adherent DBT as they can to an outpatient private practice, though the material and structure is modified to fit the setting and population served, which is predominantly 2SLGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent. Kat has been running this DBT series back-to-back in their private practice since the summer of 2017. Kat offers this group primarily to the Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley, Monterey, and Bay Areas of CA.

location: telehealth for the greater santa cruz, ca community

2SLGBTQIA-Affirming DBT Graduates Support & Application Group

mondays 5:30 - 7pm - 2x/month - for 6 month renewable cycles

the Fall 2023 Grads group has already started; the next series for Graduates will likely start in Sept 2024! please feel free to contact Kat to get on the contact list for this group!

This group is for those who have completed the DBT Mindfulness & Skills Group Series at least once and would like to continue to deepen their skills knowledge and application with fellow DBT Graduates and Kat in this supportive DBT skills-focused therapeutic space. This group meets 2x per month and is offered for 6 month renewable cycles (meaning, clients may re-up after 6 months or may depart!). The group can accept 8 members at a time and will always offer 1-2 sliding scale spots per cycle.

Cost: Full fee: $75/group

Sliding scale spots: 2 per cycle

Clients must be appropriate for the outpatient level of care to participate in this group.