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RatesYou can accept yourself and still want to change.
Both are true at once. That's the whole idea.
Most people arrive at Christian dialectical behavior therapy in Lee's Summit having been handed the letters by somebody else. A doctor, a previous counselor, a search at two in the morning after a night that got away from them.
Here's the plain version. DBT teaches four things: noticing what you feel instead of reacting to it, getting through a moment you can't fix, understanding an emotion before it runs the show, and asking for what you need without the room catching fire. That's it. Four skill sets, taught on purpose, practiced until they hold.
The word dialectical means two opposing things can both be true at the same time. Nothing is wrong with you, and something still has to change. In faith based dialectical behavior therapy in Lee's Summit, nobody asks you to pick one of those. Picking one is what's been keeping you stuck.
Skills, not willpower.
Yours is probably on this list.
Your counselor asks what the last bad week looked like. Not the diagnosis, the sequence. What happened, what you felt, what you did next.
Not all four at once. Whichever of them would have changed that week gets taught first, in your session, in plain language, with your own situation as the example.
Between sessions is where this either takes or doesn't. You'll be asked to try the skill while it still feels artificial, because that's the only way it stops feeling that way. Faith based DBT therapy in Lee's Summit is a skill you practice, not a theory you agree with.
In Christian DBT counseling in Lee's Summit, you land on ground the faith already knew. You're accepted as you are and you're being changed, and no one is asked to choose. Romans 12 says be transformed by the renewing of your mind, which is close to a description of what skills training does to a person.
Renewing a mind takes practice.
So the acceptance half isn't a therapeutic trick to make you feel better, and the change half isn't a verdict on you. Your counselor holds both because Scripture holds both. That tends to matter to people who've been told by one side that they just need more faith, and by the other side that nothing about them needs to change at all.
If yours isn't on the list, it's the kind of thing Naomi answers on the phone in about a minute.
Call 816.272.0653No. That's where it was developed, and it's still used there, but the skills turned out to help far more people than they were built for. Trauma histories, anxiety, depression, addiction recovery, or just more turbulence than you can currently hold. You don't need a diagnosis to benefit from learning how to sit with a feeling.
Ask Naomi what's running when you call. What we can tell you here is that the skills get taught in your individual sessions either way, 45 to 50 minutes at a time, so nothing is waiting on a group forming before you can start.
One of our licensed counselors trained in DBT, and yes, in individual sessions. There's no separate DBT track or a different intake, it's built into the same 45 to 50 minute session as everything else here. We do not run DBT groups and have no plans to, so if a group is something you want alongside your sessions, say so and Naomi will help you find one. When you call, Naomi finds out what's going on and matches you with someone who's a good fit. If you've been looking for a Christian DBT therapist in Lee's Summit, that's one of seven licensed counselors on a team that also carries a supervised intern, all trauma informed, at a practice that has been here since 2016.
Yes, and it's the part that decides whether this works. A skill you've only heard explained isn't a skill yet. You'll practice between sessions in faith based DBT counseling in Lee's Summit, usually in small and unglamorous ways, because that's where it moves from an idea to something your hands do under pressure.
Yes. The core move in DBT is holding two true things at once: accept where you are, and change anyway. That shape is not foreign to Scripture, and the skills themselves are practical rather than philosophical.
It can. Some people want the skills framed by Scripture and some want the skills and nothing else. Your counselor will ask in the first session and then follow what you said.
No. The skills work the same either way. Most people who come to us for DBT do want the Christian frame, but it is not a condition of being seen.
It tends to fit when the emotion arrives faster and bigger than the situation called for, and the wreckage afterwards is the part you regret. If that sounds like an ordinary week, say so when you call and Naomi will book you with a counselor who does this work.
Plenty of people come for the skills long before anything reaches a crisis. Naomi picks up and she'll tell you who has openings and what the first session involves.
