Sevi Wellness Services

27/08/2025

02/08/2025

Our Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Program is a high-fidelity program for teens and their families (aged 12-17 years old) experiencing significant difficulty managing emotions, behaviors, and family conflicts. Our goal is to help teens and their families build a more fulfilling, connected, and meaningful life, all while keeping them in their day-to-day activities. 

Our Approach

The programs include an adherent Multi-Family Skills Group (MFSG) which teaches skills in the areas of:

Mindfulness

Emotion Regulation

Distress Tolerance

Interpersonal Effectiveness

Walking the Middle Path

These skills support teens and their families in developing abilities to stay focused in the present moment and understand themselves, tolerate tough feelings and strong impulses without necessarily acting, increase pleasant emotions and reduce the intensity of unwanted emotions, build and strengthen relationships, and get unstuck from family conflicts. Our goal is to help teens and their families build a more fulfilling, connected, and meaningful life.

02/08/2025

Our Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Program is a high-fidelity program for teens and their families (aged 12-17 years old) experiencing significant difficulty managing emotions, behaviors, and family conflicts. Our goal is to help teens and their families build a more fulfilling, connected, and meaningful life, all while keeping them in their day-to-day activities.

Our Approach
The programs include an adherent Multi-Family Skills Group (MFSG) which teaches skills in the areas of:

Mindfulness
Emotion Regulation
Distress Tolerance
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Walking the Middle Path
These skills support teens and their families in developing abilities to stay focused in the present moment and understand themselves, tolerate tough feelings and strong impulses without necessarily acting, increase pleasant emotions and reduce the intensity of unwanted emotions, build and strengthen relationships, and get unstuck from family conflicts. Our goal is to help teens and their families build a more fulfilling, connected, and meaningful life.

Contact -
support@seviwellnessservices.com
Phone no - 077383 85546
www.seviwellnessservices.com

23/05/2025

Understanding DBT vs. RO-DBT

Although an increasing number of individuals have heard of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), quite a few people are unsure about the difference between Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT). DBT is a more comprehensive and well-established treatment than RO DBT.

DBT is also a more comprehensive treatment that was designed with individual therapy, group therapy, a consultation team, and phone coaching. However, it is important to note that RO DBT has also implemented several of these components, including optional phone coaching.

Thomas Lynch developed RO DBT after working with clients who struggled with their emotions but who also had a high degree of self-control, emotional suppression, perfectionism, and a high need for structure. This blog post will describe the difference between undercontrol and overcontrol as well as some of the core skills differences in DBT versus RO DBT.

In the RO DBT manual (Lynch, 1993), individuals who have an overcontrolled personality or style of coping are described as having too much self-control. This tendency toward excessive self-control is correlated with mental health disorders such as anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and depression. Individuals with overcontrolled personalities may also struggle with their relationships, in part due to difficulties with exercising flexibility, with low receptivity to openness.

Overcontrolled characteristics may have originally evolved to be adaptive in social situations by enhancing individuals’ ability to delay gratification, perform well, value self-sacrifice, and follow the rules. Nevertheless, it is the extent to which these characteristics manifest in situations that require flexibility and openness to build connection, where individuals with overcontrolled personalities struggle.

On the contrary, individuals with low self-control (undercontrolled personalities), may be more likely to struggle with impulsivity and difficulty regulating their outward expression of emotional reactions.

Similarities

Perhaps, the main similarity between DBT and RO DBT is that both treatments have a strong focus on emotions. In DBT, therapists are emotion-focused and help clients develop ways to understand and accept their emotions, as well as ways to regulate their emotional dysregulation.

Generally, at least in Stage 1 DBT, clinicians expect to help individuals gain more control over their emotions, thereby decreasing emotional dyscontrol, which could manifest as screaming, harming oneself, or impulsive use of substances.

In comparison, RO DBT helps clients to understand emotions by understanding five emotionally relevant cues: safety cues, novelty cues, rewarding cues, threatening cues, and overwhelming cues. RO DBT then proceeds to use strategies to help clients increase their sense of social safety and help clients relax.

Differences

A key difference between DBT and RO DBT is that DBT teaches radical acceptance, whereas RO DBT teaches radical openness. Radical acceptance is a skill where individuals practice accepting things just as they are in the present moment or how they were in the past. Radical acceptance can be helpful for reducing emotional intensity by helping an individual to stop fighting reality.

RO DBT describes radical openness, whereby individuals practice moving from a closed mindset to an open stance where they are willing to learn new information. Clients use self-inquiry to move from a closed mindset to a more flexible and open mindset, opening themselves up by asking themselves curious questions. Both skills lead to greater peace and reduced suffering.

If you are interested in DBT or RO DBT, talk with your therapist about your options. If you have a therapist who is familiar with both treatments, they may be able to conduct further assessments to determine which treatment is appropriate for you.

At Sevi wellness services for DBT , there are several clinicians who can help you make an informed decision about how to proceed.

Contact - 077383 85546 / +91 77382 69367
Email - support@seviwellnessservices.com
Website - seviwellnessservices@gmail.com

18/05/2025

Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month is observed in May. It is dedicated to spreading awareness, encouraging people to not hesitate in getting help, and ending the stigma that surrounds Borderline Personality Disorder.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was originally developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan to support clients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

DBT has since been applied to be effective with a range of challenges including depression, relational challenges, trauma and more. However, the umbrella DBT works best with is emotion dysregulation. DBT supports clients with emotion dysregulation by reducing their problematic behaviors, increasing life skills, and building a Life Worth Living!

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders describes BPD as a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affects and marked impulsivity beginning in early adulthood. Symptoms can include fears of abandonment, impulsivity, suicidal behaviors or self-harm, feelings of emptiness, and difficulty controlling anger.
BPD is a heavily stigmatized mental health condition.

This stigmatization and invalidation can result in severe emotional dysregulation and out-of-control behaviors. Many mental health professionals are reluctant to treat and even refuse to treat a person who meets diagnostic criteria for BPD.

DBT’s Biosocial Theory helps explain emotion dysregulation and how BPD can present in someone’s life. The theory proposes that BPD and emotion dysregulation develops due to a combination of biological predispositions and environmental factors.

The biological factors include an emotional vulnerability, as well as impulsivity having a biological basis. There is also an invalidating environment, not understanding a sensitive person’s emotions – this could be society as a whole, parents, partners, teachers, or others. The theory also recognizes the transactional relationship between the biological factors and the social environment influencing the person, as well as the person influencing his or her social environment.

DBT addresses problems with emotional reactivity by balancing acceptance and validation with change. DBT teaches clients skills from four modules: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness in order to better cope with stress, regulate emotions and manage relationships effectively.

To learn more about or enroll in our DBT programs visit www.seviwellnessservices.com
Contact - +91 7738385546 / +91 77382 69367

Email - support@seviwellnessservices.com

11/05/2025

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