Group Therapy Services Available

DBT Skills Group

for middle schoolers and teens

DBT focuses heavily on helping your teen learn important skills to manage strong and painful emotions. Parents and teens learn the skills together, focusing on four main themes—Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance, and Emotion Regulation. Our team helps engage teens in learning and applying these skills in their lives.

Middle School group meets on Thursdays from 5:30-7pm.

Teen group meets on Monday nights from 5-7pm. Openings available in September.

DBT Skills Group

for adults

The Bellevue Center offers DBT skills group for adult clients who are undergoing comprehensive DBT treatment. Members will learn important skills to manage strong and painful emotions.

Adult group meets on Monday afternoons from 11am-1pm. The group starts January 26th.

Social Anxiety Rock Climbing Group

for pre-teens and teens

This groups aims to help adolescents who are struggling with anxiety in social situations. Here they will gain the skills to engage in social encounters, make friends, and survive “awkward” situations. Using exposure therapy principles, kids will be encouraged to connect and practice social skills together, all while engaging in a fun activity. No prior climbing experience needed.

Start date TBD.

Please note: Participation in group therapy at The Bellevue Center is contingent upon a recommendation from your outpatient therapist and a determination of fit. Members of DBT skills group must be referred by their outpatient DBT provider as part of their DBT treatment plan.

Learn more about DBT Skills Group.

  • Mindfulness

    These skills help us stay in the present moment, even when our emotions feel overwhelming. Using mindfulness, you and your teen can learn how to observe emotional highs and lows without becoming overly attached to them.

  • Interpersonal Effectiveness

    These skills help us to use healthier and more effective communication styles with the important people in our lives. In this way, we can start to build more fulfilling and supportive interpersonal relationships. Having parents participate in our teen DBT groups allows for us to practice this skill in real time.

  • Distress Tolerance

    These skills help us be able to withstand intense emotional storms. For example, one important distress tolerance skill is healthy distraction. You and your teen can learn to use healthy distractions (like watching a funny movie or going for a walk) to get through emotionally painful moments – without using self-harm as a coping tool.

  • Emotion Regulation

    These skills help us learn how to change emotions that are not serving us and we want to change. For example, we might learn how to challenge unhelpful thinking patterns that cause emotional pain.

Meet our Group Leaders

  • A smiling man with short brown hair, wearing a patterned button-up shirt, standing outdoors with a blurred green background. Dan Finnegan.

    Dan Finnegan

    HIGH SCHOOL DBT SKILLS GROUP

    Wednesdays 5-7 PM & Thursdays 5-7 PM

    In Person in Bellevue, WA

  • A smiling woman with long brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a dark top, standing outdoors with blurred green foliage in the background. Haley Moutier, LMHC

    Haley Moutier

    MIDDLE SCHOOL DBT SKILLS GROUP

    Mondays 5:30pm-7pm

    In Person in Bellevue, WA

  • A man with wavy brown hair, a mustache, and light skin smiling outdoors with trees and white flowers in the background. Dustin Ducharme, PhD

    Dustin Ducharme

    SOCIAL ANXIETY ROCK CLIMBING GROUP

    Tuesdays from 5-7pm

    Group meets at Edgeworks Climbing in Bellevue

  • A young woman with long black hair, smiling, wearing earrings and a beige blazer, outdoors with greenery in the background. Elaine Cheung, LICSW

    Elaine Cheung

    YOUNG ADULT DBT SKILLS GROUP

    Date & time TBD

    Located in person in Bellevue