LGBTQIA & neurodivergent affirming

dbt mindfulness & skills group series

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

location: telehealth for the greater santa cruz, ca community

read below for more details.

 
 

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. This binder is created by Kat Zwick.

  • DBT Peer Mentors - people who have already gone through the series one or more times and have moved on from Ride The Wave Recovery 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.

 

LGBTQIA & neurodivergent affirming

dbt graduates support & application group

location: telehealth

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

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.