Group Therapy Services Available
DBT Skills Group
for teens, young adults, and parents
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.
Openings available for both our middle school and high school groups in Fall 2024.
DBT Skills Group
for adults
The Bellevue Center offers DBT skills group for adult clients who are undergoing comprehensive DBT treatment, conveniently available through Telehealth. Members will learn important skills to manage strong and painful emotions.
Adult DBT skills group will not be available through The Bellevue Center until Summer 2025.
OCD & Anxiety Group
for pre-teens and teens
This group aims to help adolescents struggling with OCD and anxiety gain extra exposure experience and connect with peers who are also motivated to treat their OCD and anxiety. Participants should have a treatment plan provided by their outpatient therapist or may seek our assessment services to set this up before joining.
Openings available for participants to start Fall 2024.
Social Anxiety 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.
Openings available for participants to start Fall 2024.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Dan Finnegan
Wednesdays 5-7 PM - One opening August 2nd (High School Age Group)
Thursdays 5-7 PM - Three openings July 20th (High School Age Group)
Bellevue, WA
Haley Moutier
Tuesdays from 5-7pm
Bellevue, WA
Openings starting the middle of June
Elaine Cheung
Openings available for OCD group.