Dialectical Behavior Therapy is an empirically tested treatment approach designed to help people better regulate their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy will teach you skills to help you:

• Keep your relationships healthy
• Control your urges and emotions
• Control your attention (stop obsessing about the past and worrying about the future)
• Tolerate emotional pain without resorting to self-harm or other destructive behaviors

By participating in the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Approach you will:

• Have more control over your behaviors
• Fully experience your emotions
• Feel more complete and connected to yourself and others
• Create a “Life Worth Living”

About Ms.Jennifer J. Manly, LPC, M.Ed., NCC
Ms. Manly specializes in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and has been intensively trained by members of Behavioral Tech, LLC, founded by Marsha Linehan-the developer of DBT. Her approach to therapy includes providing therapeutic services in a warm, non-judgmental environment that balances acceptance with change strategies.

Ms. Manly’s educational training is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and she will work with you to see the interaction of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Given she is an intensively trained DBT therapist, Ms. Manly will facilitate this by balancing acceptance (validation) with change strategies and teach you skills that you can use in your every day life. She emphasizes the importance of the therapist-client relationship and will tailor your treatment to meet your individual needs to help you create a life worth living by reducing your current level of pain and suffering.

Areas of Expertise:
Children
Adolescents
Families
Couples
Sexual Abuse Victims
Borderline Personality Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Depression
Suicidal Ideation