Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Managing Emotions (6 Weeks)

Fall 2025

Session 1:

Thursdays, 3:15pm - 4:45pm, (October 2 - November 6, 2025) Tang Center - Room 3220 Facilitated by Sara Lipton-Carey, LCSW and Sheela Vashishtha, LCSW

Session 2:

Fridays, Weekly 10:30am - 12pm (Oct 31-Dec 12, skipping Nov 28 for Thanksgiving) Location: Virtual on Zoom Facilitated by Sasha Blum, PhD and Emily Taplin, LCSW

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.