Scott Spradlin Wise Mind, Wise Life

Scott Spradlin Wise Mind, Wise Life Wise Mind, Wise Life is affiliated with NorthStar Therapy and Wichita DBT.

Wise Mind, Wise Life promotes education and access to DBT, mindfulness-based therapy, and the cultivation of wisdom for daily life. Scott is a Wichita-based provider of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based psychotherapy, Christian Counseling and professional training.

The present reading pile awaits me and my tiny rap-ups on our workbook for . What's on your pile? What are you reading?...
08/18/2025

The present reading pile awaits me and my tiny rap-ups on our workbook for . What's on your pile? What are you reading?

Happy Monday, friends and followers.

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07/27/2025

Go, ! :-)

The Kansas Food Bank’s “Filling the Gap” program will provide breakfast and lunch for five days across five locations across the Wichita metro area to all children under the age

07/27/2025
DBT promotes active engagement in building a Life Worth Living, and that's what we help our clients cultivate at at ...
07/27/2025

DBT promotes active engagement in building a Life Worth Living, and that's what we help our clients cultivate at at NorthStar Therapy


Don't give in to avoiding the negative/painful aspects of life. This can lead to avoiding positive/pleasant events and experiences. Express your commitment to your Life Worth Living goals by doing at least one little thing each day that will bring peace, joy, humor, satisfaction, or self-confidence. What is the one little thing you can do today?

A Foundational Step: Understand and Accept ADHD's Impact on EmotionsTo become skillful in life, ADHD adults must under...
07/18/2025



A Foundational Step: Understand and Accept ADHD's Impact on Emotions

To become skillful in life, ADHD adults must understand how emotional regulation is among their executive functions, which is often impaired in ADHD, much like the other neurobiologically based executive functions. We call this an emotional vulnerability and it makes emotion regulation difficult. ADHD brains usually experience.

Emotional Dysregulation: Intense, rapid shifts in mood, difficulty modulating emotional responses, and a tendency to feel emotions more intensely. States of emotional dysregulation can further impair and interrupt the following executive functions, which are needed for effective self-organization and consistent goal-directed behaviors.

Impulsivity: Acting on emotions without considering consequences.

Difficulty with Inhibition: Struggling to pause before reacting.

Working Memory Challenges: Forgetting coping strategies in the heat of the moment.

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD): Extreme emotional pain from perceived or actual rejection, criticism, or failure.

Acknowledging these innate challenges with self-compassion is the first "acceptance" step in DBT.

More to come as we wrap up our DBT Skills Workbook for ADHD Adults for New Harbinger Publications.








If you're in/near Wichita, and fear for nothing to do, here you go. Another community gathering. Accumulate positives.
07/18/2025

If you're in/near Wichita, and fear for nothing to do, here you go. Another community gathering. Accumulate positives.

Bright voices and deep talent. Listen and you will accumulate a positive.
07/18/2025

Bright voices and deep talent.

Listen and you will accumulate a positive.

Thunder and Rain is on tour Spring 2025!March 20th Purple Onion Saluda, NCMarch 21st Flatiron Greensboro, NCMarch 22nd Lititz Shirt Factory Lititz, PAMarch 2...

This is where I provide comprehensive and adherent with Mariah. Be skillful out there.
07/18/2025

This is where I provide comprehensive and adherent with Mariah. Be skillful out there.



Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is highly effective for adults with ADHD due to its focus on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness – all areas where ADHD can present significant challenges. The "dialectical" aspect emphasizes the balance between accepting who /where you are right now and the need for change.

A beautiful gloom hovers over Wichita.
07/17/2025

A beautiful gloom hovers over Wichita.

07/13/2025

Thanks. Dr. Arielle Schwartz .

Hoping you have had a lovely 4th. 🇺🇸🎆
07/05/2025

Hoping you have had a lovely 4th. 🇺🇸🎆

Happy Independence Day, America!
Please note that offices will be closed from June 30th until July 5th in observance of the holiday.

Thank you, Suspenders4Hope, for your sustained good deeds for our Kansas communities.
07/03/2025

Thank you, Suspenders4Hope, for your sustained good deeds for our Kansas communities.

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I am a Wichita-based provider of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based psychotherapy, Christian Counseling and professional training. I am a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Addictions Counselor (LAC). I’m the author of the book “Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Put You in Control” (New Harbinger, 2003). My practice of DBT started at the Portland DBT Program, Portland, OR in 1996, and I completed DBT intensive training with Dr. Marsha Linehan’s Behavioral Technology Transfer Group in Seattle, WA in 2000.

I’m currently working with a bright, credentialed, skilled and compassionate team of therapists at the Haus of Clarity, where we are developing mindfulness-based counseling services in the form of Wichita DBT, including Wabi-Sabi DBT for teens and adults. And this is in addition to our offerings in EMDR, hypnotherapy and trauma-informed therapy.

The mission is to provide heart-centered, compassionate and effective therapy to the people of Wichita and surrounding area.

DBT focuses on assisting persons who suffer with problems in emotion dysregulation, which emerges from a confluence of biological factors and social experiences of invalidation which ranges from general neglect to outright forms of abuse. Emotion dysregulation issues are often visible in self-destructive behaviors such as self-harm, suicidality, substance abuse, excessive anger and other compulsive behaviors.