Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Healing starts here.
Compassionate, evidence-based care for New Mexicans since 2009
Now Registering for 12 Week DBT Skills Groups! 🎉
You Are Worthy of Life
Our goal at Awake and Aware, LLC is to collaborate with you to create a life worth living. A life worth living is a life that you actively want. It is a life that has decreased suffering and unwanted behaviors with a growing ability to manage life's challenges,
traumas, and internal struggles.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a well-researched, evidenced-based modality to support an increase in your ability to regulate intense emotions and decrease life-threatening behaviors. It has also been proven effective in managing various difficulties, including disordered eating, interpersonal conflicts, and substance abuse.
DBT is rooted in Mindfulness to increase your capacity to experience joy and life in the present. Mindfulness is incorporated into all aspects of DBT treatment and is
fundamental to achieving a life worth living.
Who Do We Serve?
Adolescents
We specialize in serving high-risk, multi-issue, young adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18
Families
We teach families effective communication skills to stabilize dysregulated family systems
Adults
We help adults to increase emotion regulation skills and decrease suicidality, self-injury, and addiction.
Community
We provide a wide range of training and continuing education to both clients and clinicians.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is an evidence-based treatment that was developed by Marcia Linehan, PhD. While initially developed to treat Borderline Personality Disorder, it is currently viewed as the most effective treatment for issues with emotion regulation that result in lethal behaviors, including suicidality, self-harming, impulsivity, and interpersonal conflict.
DBT orients around the idea of Acceptance and Change existing at the same time. This is known as the “D” in DBT, Dialectics. As a foundational principle, it teaches the individual how to exist in a place where options, choices, and alternative behaviors are always available. Through acquiring skills, individuals will learn how to interrupt problem behaviors, identify new possibilities, and create a map for emerging from high-octane emotional experiences.
Adherent DBT is a year-long commitment including individual DBT sessions, a Skills group, Coaching (to support new behavior and interrupt problem behavior), and a treatment Team for DBT clinicians.
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"One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world."
-Siddhartha
Meet the team
Awake and Aware. LLC is committed to creating a powerful and effective center for the evidence-based treatment of New Mexico’s mental & behavioral health concerns. We work in community for our community.
Our vision is to provide hope and healing to the Southwest. We remain mindful and ethical in all we do as we support and encourage the professional development of each practitioner and the team as a whole.
