Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Managing Emotions (6 Weeks)

Spring 2026

Session 1:

Thursdays, 3:30-5pm (February 26 - April 9, 2026) Location: Virtual/Zoom Facilitated by Emily Taplin, LCSW, and Mar Chung, PhD

Session 2:

Mondays, 1:30-3pm (March 2 - April 13, 2026) Location: Virtual/Zoom Facilitated by Kusha Murarka, PsyD and Guadalupe Espinoza, PsyD

Managing Emotions (4 Weeks)

This 4-week group is designed to introduce students to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) principles and skills. Participants will learn mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills to manage emotions more effectively. We STRONGLY recommend that participants are in concurrent individual therapy for the duration of the group.

Fall 2025 Schedule

This group isn't being offered this semester.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) - DBT-RU Channel

2023

The vision of the DBT-RU Youtube channel is to bring the skills used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to as many people as possible. Here, you can access important tools like mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance, directly from DBT experts.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic at Rutgers University (DBT-RU) is a research and training clinic. DBT-RU is directed by Shireen Rizvi, Ph.D, whose graduate school advisor was Dr. Marsha Linehan, the developer of DBT. For more resources, check out the links below.