How our service can help you
Lewisham Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service is part of the
wider SLaM DBT Service and is attached to Lewisham CMHTs. DBT is an
evidence-based therapy for people whose difficulties with regulating
emotions creates significant problems in their lives, and who have a
suspected or confirmed diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality
Disorder (EUPD)/Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
In DBT, clients are taught skilful ways of managing emotional distress,
solving problematic situations and improving their relationships. The
DBT programme is delivered in a validating therapeutic environment which
focuses on clients' strengths and sensitivities and enables them to
develop effective strategies to build a 'life worth living'.
Clients have a DBT assessment and, if suitable, they are offered DBT
Ôpre-treatment'. This prepares clients for the full DBT programme, which
includes weekly individual and group DBT sessions and DBT phone
coaching, and all DBT therapists attend DBT Consult. Clients work
towards reducing and stopping all life-threatening behaviours, reducing
therapy-interfering and quality of life-interfering behaviours, reducing
trauma symptoms, increasing behavioural skills and achieving Ôlife worth
living' goals.
Mental health professionals can make referrals by contacting a member
of the Lewisham DBT Service to discuss cases in the first instance for
screening, and then emailing the therapist they contacted with a
completed Lewisham DBT Service referral form attached. NB: Currently,
clients need to be under the care of a mental health team in Lewisham to
access the Lewisham DBT Service.
- Service Borough Covers: Lewisham Treatment type: Outpatient individual and group sessions, weekly
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Contact the service
- Disabled Access: None
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Address:
Lewisham DBT Service
Lewisham Treatment Service
Old Town Hall
1st Floor
1 Catford Road
Lewisham,London, SE13 6LW - Conditions: Lewisham Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service