Radically Open DBT for Adults (RO DBT)
Assessment: (60 min) consultation with a DBT therapist
Individual Therapy: (45 min) weekly individual sessions
RO DBT Group Skills Training: (75 min) weekly skills training sessions
Telephone Coaching: with our individual therapist for help in application of skills
RO DBT Consultation Team
Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) is an evidence based treatment for clients who exhibit excessive self-control. Self-control is the ability to restrain acting on impulses and emotions in favor of long-term life objectives. Often this self-control can be adaptive and for some individuals engaging in overly inhibited and cautious behavior can be exhausting and debilitating.
RO DBT focuses on the client understanding the connection between emotional expression, social signaling, and behavioral attempts to develop social bonds with others. Overcontrol is connected to an overly activated fight flight response which can interfere with social signaling and connection. Often such individuals can struggle with terrible loneliness. Radically Open DBT helps clients to navigate difficult pervasive patterns of over control. We see these patterns in phenomena like anorexia nervosa, chronic depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism, and OCPD. The core problem of loneliness is seen as the core issue among overcontrolled clients.
Radical Openness is the principle and core skill of RO at Metro. Radical Openness is a pattern of behavior and state of mind that will include openness,flexibility and social connectedness.
Metro’s RO program will target five overcontrol themes:
- Inhibited and flat emotional expression
- Hyper-detailed focused and overly cautious behavior
- Rigid and rule-governed behavior
- Aloof and distant style of relating
- High social comparison
At Metro New York DBT Center, our approach to our RO DBT has the following four modes of treatment:
- Individual Session
- RO DBT Skills Training Group (5:00 Thursday beginning May 23, 2024)
- Phone Coaching
- RO DBT Consultation Team
Initially, clients will have 4 weeks of pretreatment followed by 30 weeks of Stage 1 RO DBT.
To learn more about RO at Metro please call (212) 560-2437 or email [email protected].