Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT)

• Chronic depression
• Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
• Anorexia
• Anxiety disorders with overcontrol

What does treatment look like?

Outpatient RO-DBT (~30 weeks)

• Individual sessions: 45min/week, focused on individual goals
• Skills training class: 2.5 hrs (with 15 min break)
  • Learn skills to:
    • Increase self-awareness, and expand one’s ability to recognize and adopt alternative points of view
    • Decrease inhibited and disingenuous emotional expression
    • Reduce hyper-detailed focused and overly cautious behavior
    • Address and loosen rigid and rule-governed behavior
    • Decrease aloof and distant styles of relating
    • Decrease high social comparison and envy/bitterness
• Telephone consultation: optional but recommended
  • To generalize skills use during difficult moments in between sessions

Join our RO-DBT Skills Class

We are seeking new participants for RO-DBT Skills Classes taught by Dr. Katie Flanagan, Psy.D.

Each RO-DBT skills class is 90 minutes and includes homework review, mindfulness exercises, in-class exercises, and new skills teaching. In the RODBT skills class, clients will learn skills to:

• Increase self-awareness, and expand one’s ability to recognize and adopt alternative points of view
• Decrease inhibited and disingenuous emotional expression
• Reduce hyper-detailed focused and overly cautious behavior
• Address and loosen rigid and rule-governed behavior
• Decrease aloof and distant styles of relating
• Decrease high social comparison and envy/bitterness

If you or a client who might be interested, please have them complete this online screener (specify “RO-DBT skills class”) for a free consultation with Dr. Flanagan to make sure they are a good fit.