by Cristofer Chan | Jul 7, 2025 | DBT Calgary, The DBT Blog
Behaviourism in therapy has long carried a reputation for being rigid, impersonal, or overly mechanistic. Critics have dismissed it as lacking compassion or depth, especially when compared to approaches that foreground thoughts, feelings, or insight. While early...
by Jessica Heil | Jun 11, 2025 | DBT Calgary, The DBT Blog
Why It Matters That Your DBT Program Is DBT-Certified If you or a loved one is struggling with intense emotions, self-harming behaviors, or mental health challenges like borderline personality disorder, you may have heard about Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT....
by Jessica Heil | Oct 18, 2024 | DBT Calgary, The DBT Blog
Many clinicians will be able to share a story similar to this one – you start seeing a new client, and as the therapeutic alliance becomes stronger they disclose to you that they have some very detailed suicidal thoughts, including an idea of how they might die by...
by Jessica Heil | Sep 25, 2024 | The DBT Blog
When I talk to people who are interested in starting therapy at Inner Solutions™, a common remark that I hear from those who have endured traumatic events is that they say that they tried participating in trauma treatment, and it made their distress worse. From there,...
