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DBT
The skills, the structure, and how the treatment actually works.
61 articles · browse by topic
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Is Your Therapist Actually Doing DBT? 8 Questions to Ask
Plenty of therapy is called DBT. Less of it is the treatment the research tested. Eight questions you can ask any program or therapist, what a complete answer sounds like, and a one-page checklist to print. -
Therapy for Teenage Girls: When Nothing Looks Wrong
The teenage girls who most need therapy are often the ones nobody is worried about — grades fine, no trouble at school. What parents should look at instead of behavior. -
Emotional Dysregulation in Adults: Why It Gets Named So Late
Emotional dysregulation in adults rarely gets called that. It gets called a temper, anxiety, being too sensitive, or just how you are. What the adult version looks like. -
DBT Phone Coaching: What It Is and How to Use It
Phone coaching is the DBT mode clients use least and programs drop first. What a coaching call actually is, when to make one, and what happens on it.
Conditions & Approaches
What we treat, how it gets assessed, and which therapy fits which problem.
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Autism in Women: Why So Many Are Missed Until Adulthood
The diagnostic picture of autism was built on boys. What that does to women who seek an answer at 30 or 45, what presents differently, and what a competent adult evaluation does about it. -
Autistic Burnout Is Not Depression
Autistic burnout and depression look alike and respond to opposite things. How they differ, why the standard depression lever can make burnout worse, what recovery actually requires, and when the real question is an evaluation. -
Masking: Why Autism Gets Missed for Decades
Masking is the reason autism in adults is so often missed — and the reason a short assessment cannot find it. What masking is, what it costs, and what an evaluation does instead, from the evaluator's side. -
Seasonal Affective Disorder in Colorado: Why the Sunshine Doesn't Protect You
Colorado's sunny reputation makes seasonal depression easy to dismiss and slow to treat. What actually drives SAD here, and what works better than a light box alone.
Natural Medicine
Psilocybin-assisted therapy under Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act.
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What a Psilocybin Journey Series Actually Involves
Why a psilocybin journey series is two sessions at an escalating dose with integration between them — what the research found about one dose versus two, and what the weeks in between are for. -
Psilocybin for Alcohol and Addiction: What the Research Shows
The 2026 meta-analyses, the trials behind them, and the negative results most summaries leave out — for alcohol, smoking, and cocaine. -
Psilocybin and SSRIs: Do You Have to Stop Your Antidepressant?
Whether to taper an SSRI or SNRI before psilocybin therapy is unsettled. The evidence on both sides, and how to decide with your prescriber. -
Psilocybin Contraindications: Who Natural Medicine Is Not a Good Fit For
A plain-language list of who should not do psilocybin therapy — the firm rule-outs, the situations that need a longer conversation, and how to read your own.
Family, Practice & Local
For partners, parents, referring clinicians, and finding care in Denver.
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Does Medicaid Cover DBT in Colorado?
Health First Colorado covers DBT, but your plan and which programs contract with it decide whether you can get in. A plain breakdown. -
Sarah Gordis Earns DBT-Linehan Board Certification
Sarah Gordis, LCSW is now a DBT-Linehan Board Certified DBT Clinician™ — the field's gold-standard credential. Here's what that means for clients at FRTC. -
Online Couples Counseling in Colorado
Telehealth couples therapy is now standard, not a compromise. A Colorado clinician on when online sessions work and how to make them productive. -
What to Do When Your Child Refuses Therapy
Your child needs help but won't go to therapy. Here are practical strategies from Denver DBT therapists for navigating refusal.