Continuing Education: Core Mindfulness in Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Description: The presentation will address the Core Mindfulness aspects of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Much of DBT is based on individuals being mindful of their emotions, thoughts and behaviors as well as using acceptance to help them successfully get through an emotion and/or event. Core Mindfulness focuses on increasing awareness of emotions and thought patterns and teaches individuals to learn how to be in control of their mind instead their mind being in control of them.

Presenter: Tyler Beach, MSW, LCSW is a staff psychotherapist for Carolina House. He completed his residencies at John Umstead Psychiatric Hospital and Northside Community Mental Health Agency. Prior to coming aboard, he worked as a group and individual psychotherapist at a community mental health agency. He has experience in diagnosing and treating a wide array of mental health disorders from individual, group, and family approaches.

Tyler works predominantly from two psychotherapy models. He is the lead therapist of our Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program and has been leading DBT groups and conducting individual therapy in this model since the beginning of his practice as a psychotherapist. DBT starts with an assumption that a person is always doing the best they can, while also acknowledging that the person can also function more effectively by learning coping skills to manage their thoughts, emotions, and more broadly their lives.

Tyler's practice is also heavily influenced by Existential Psychotherapy, a form of psychodynamic therapy that looks at the larger questions of a person's existence and how we can create more meaning in our lives. His practice is grounded in learning to sense and then effectively express emotions as a critical element in healing.

He also enjoys integrating a person's belief system into their work. He respects and encourages a person's spirituality or beliefs about their existence to have a place at the table and recognizes the importance of using faith traditions or personal philosophies to aid recovery.

RSVP: Please contact Robin Forgione, , by Wednesday, April 23, to ask questions or confirm attendance. Please consider bringing a non-member LPC to hear about our association!