RO DBT : The State-of-the-Art Treatment for Overcontrolled Clients

Over-control is often one of the hardest dynamics to treat in mental health recovery. The rigidity, perfectionism, or extreme anxiety that plague our clients can block important aspects of their deepest work. In the messy world of intimacy and relationships, clients must learn to be flexible and tolerate the feeling of vulnerability to create “a life worth sharing.” To this end, we will explore RO-DBT and the skills and methods used in the treatment to help decrease the burden of control that is preventing them from making the progress in life that they seek. RO DBT helps to illuminate the suffering and loneliness experienced by so many of our clients despite them working so hard in life.

In recent years, especially in the pandemic and post-pandemic phases, there was so much loss, and many people were afraid to leave home and remained isolated, stressed, and afraid. By virtue of this unfortunate circumstance, people turned to food, alcohol, avoidance, and over-control for soothing, comfort, connection, attachment, and nurturance, making them feel even further away from their most intimate personal connections. Helping people feel reconnected to their tribes is a huge tenet of RO-DBT that we, as clinicians, can be empowered to utilize to help heal the emotional loneliness so many people face. RO DBT helps clients decrease the over-controlled behaviors that keep them isolated. RO DBT also helps decrease self-judgment, the judgment of others, perfectionism, depression, anxiety, obsessions, and rigidity, all found in our clients’ hardest-to-treat aspects.

Join us for this state-of-the-art, evidenced-based treatment for teenagers and adults who cope with their emotions by exercising excessive self-control.