Crisis to Calm: 4 DBT skills with Dr. Monica Johnson

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🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Follow Dr. Monica Johnson: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/monica-johnson-psyd https://twitter.com/QDTSavvyPsych In this video, we're joined by Dr. Monica Johnson, an expert in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), as we explore the transformative effects of DBT on managing intense emotions and mood disorders, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, and eating disorders. This video is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand how DBT can be a powerful tool in controlling the fight, flight, freeze response, managing physical anxiety symptoms, and averting panic attacks. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapyinanutshell.com Check out my favorite self-help books: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/best-self-help-books Therapy in a Nutshell and the information provided by Emma McAdam are solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and are not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger Institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction. And deeper than all of that, the Gospel of Jesus Christ orients my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe If you are in crisis, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org or 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Therapy in a Nutshell podcast. I'm Emma McAdam and I'm a licensed
0:05.3	marriage and family therapist. And this podcast is all about taking the life-changing, but usually
0:11.3	kind of complicated topics of therapy and boiling them down into simple, easy-to-understand concepts
0:17.7	that you can use in your daily life. If you find today's episode is helpful
0:21.7	to you, please pass it on to someone else who could benefit from it as well. Each podcast episode
0:26.6	comes from a corresponding video you can find on the Therapy in a Nutshell YouTube channel. Also,
0:32.1	these podcasts are educational and don't replace the advice or direction you may be receiving
0:36.7	from a therapist or other
0:38.3	health professionals. Now please enjoy the episode. All right. Thank you, Dr. Johnson so much for being here.
0:44.3	I'm super excited to talk with you about a DBT skill and how to manage crises using some kind of really
0:51.1	hands-on skills. So thank you so much for being here. Yeah, I'm excited to talk with you today.
0:57.0	Awesome. Cool. Well, could you start off by telling us about what is DBT?
1:02.0	When is it helpful? How can you use it?
1:04.0	Yeah, so DDT stands for dialectical behavior therapy, and it was originally developed by a psychologist, Marshall Lennahan, to help with borderline
1:13.5	personality disorder.
1:15.3	But over time, we recognize that it works for basically anyone who has difficulty with emotion
1:21.3	regulation.
1:22.6	So if you have a mood disorder like depression, if you struggle with anxiety, even people who
1:27.4	have PTSD,
1:28.8	eating disorders, anger, I could go on and on about the things that DBT can actually be
1:34.6	affected for. That's awesome. And one of the things I really like about DBT is it's just so
1:41.3	like practical. It's like, here is a skill you can use when this happens, right?
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