Online Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Group 
Mentalization is the capacity to understand ourselves and others in the context of mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, desires, wishes, or fears. MBT groups aim to strengthen participants' ability to mentalize, thereby allowing them to better maintain relationships and ...
Hosted by Amie M. Roe
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10001
Mentalization is the capacity to understand ourselves and others in the context of mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, desires, wishes, or fears. MBT groups aim to strengthen participants' ability to mentalize, thereby allowing them to better maintain relationships and ...
DBT Multi-Family Skills Group 
Adolescent and parent attend together. This therapy is helpful in reducing family conflict. Adolescents learn to replace problem behaviors with more adaptive ones. Parents learn to better understand and support their teen in managing emotions and behaviors. 24 sessions
Hosted by Jerome H Kogan
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10017
Adolescent and parent attend together. This therapy is helpful in reducing family conflict. Adolescents learn to replace problem behaviors with more adaptive ones. Parents learn to better understand and support their teen in managing emotions and behaviors. 24 sessions
DBT-Based Healthy Living Group 
This DBT-based group not only focuses on reducing self-harming behaviors--including eating disorders, addictions, cutting, or any behavioral patterns interfering with the potential to live life with a measure of effectiveness--but is also appropriate for individuals seeking to navigate chronic interpersonal ...
Hosted by Sylvia Martinez
Art Therapist, LCAT, ATR-BC
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10014
This DBT-based group not only focuses on reducing self-harming behaviors--including eating disorders, addictions, cutting, or any behavioral patterns interfering with the potential to live life with a measure of effectiveness--but is also appropriate for individuals seeking to navigate chronic interpersonal ...
Book Club Therapy Group 
This is a one month-long virtual therapy group that will read and process The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar is a classic book published in 1963 known for poignantly addressing one woman's mental health experience. Topics that ...
Hosted by Brianne Rose-Baker
Counselor, MS, LMHC, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10001
This is a one month-long virtual therapy group that will read and process The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar is a classic book published in 1963 known for poignantly addressing one woman's mental health experience. Topics that ...
DBT Group Now Forming on Thursdays 7-8:30pm 
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy identifies and changes negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes. DBT Group Therapy at Gateway to Solutions focuses on mindfulness; interpersonal effectiveness, stress tolerance, and emotional regulation. DBT treats Depression, Anxiety, Self-Harm, Personality Disorders, Binge-eating, ...
Hosted by Valerie Paige Kowalski
Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW, REBT, DBT, CBT
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10006
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy identifies and changes negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes. DBT Group Therapy at Gateway to Solutions focuses on mindfulness; interpersonal effectiveness, stress tolerance, and emotional regulation. DBT treats Depression, Anxiety, Self-Harm, Personality Disorders, Binge-eating, ...
Online Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Group
Mentalization is the capacity to understand ourselves and others in the context of mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, desires, wishes, or fears. MBT groups aim to strengthen participants' ability to mentalize, thereby allowing them to better maintain relationships and ...
Hosted by Amie M. Roe
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10001
Mentalization is the capacity to understand ourselves and others in the context of mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, desires, wishes, or fears. MBT groups aim to strengthen participants' ability to mentalize, thereby allowing them to better maintain relationships and ...
Healthy Living: Reducing Self-Harm in Daily LIfe 
This DBT based group will not only focus on reducing self-harming behaviors, including all types of eating disorders, addictions, cutting behavior, or other behavioral patterns that interfere with the potential to live life with a measure of effectiveness, and happiness, ...
Hosted by Justin Jones
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10014
This DBT based group will not only focus on reducing self-harming behaviors, including all types of eating disorders, addictions, cutting behavior, or other behavioral patterns that interfere with the potential to live life with a measure of effectiveness, and happiness, ...
DBT skills group Adolescents and Adults 
The DBT skills training teaches specific self regulations skills including mindfulness, emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and distress tolerance. For young clients the skills also include Walking the Middle Path. Phone coaching is also available. Families are included in the adolescent ...
Hosted by Simona Noaghiul Yland
Marriage & Family Therapist, MD, MPH, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10017
The DBT skills training teaches specific self regulations skills including mindfulness, emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and distress tolerance. For young clients the skills also include Walking the Middle Path. Phone coaching is also available. Families are included in the adolescent ...
DBT Skills Training (Online) 
These skills training classes cover the areas of mindfulness, communication skills, crisis survival or distress tolerance skills, and emotion regulation skills. If you struggle with dealing with emotions in the day-to-day, find that you are often in a crisis and ...
Hosted by Kind Mind Psychology
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10001
These skills training classes cover the areas of mindfulness, communication skills, crisis survival or distress tolerance skills, and emotion regulation skills. If you struggle with dealing with emotions in the day-to-day, find that you are often in a crisis and ...
DBT Skills Group with LGBT Focus 
This is a structured time limited DBT skills group that teaches individuals skills for managing emotions in more effective ways, decreasing impulsive behaviors, and improving relationships. This group is intended specifically for LGBT indivviduals to provide a space where individuals ...
Hosted by Erez Harari
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10024
This is a structured time limited DBT skills group that teaches individuals skills for managing emotions in more effective ways, decreasing impulsive behaviors, and improving relationships. This group is intended specifically for LGBT indivviduals to provide a space where individuals ...
DBT Group Now Forming, Thursdays, 7-8:30pm 
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy identifies and changes negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes. DBT Group Therapy at Gateway to Solutions focuses on mindfulness; interpersonal effectiveness, stress tolerance, and emotional regulation. DBT treats Depression, Anxiety, Self-Harm, Personality Disorders, Binge-eating, ...
Hosted by Valerie Paige Kowalski
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW, DBT, REBT, CBT
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10006
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy identifies and changes negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes. DBT Group Therapy at Gateway to Solutions focuses on mindfulness; interpersonal effectiveness, stress tolerance, and emotional regulation. DBT treats Depression, Anxiety, Self-Harm, Personality Disorders, Binge-eating, ...
Trichotillomania Group 
Hair pulling, skin picking and other body focused disorders can wreak havoc in a person's life. The shame associated can be debilitating. This group uses educational, CBT and emotive insight oriented approaches to help members overcome these behaviors in a ...
Hosted by Joanne F. Labiner
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10003
Hair pulling, skin picking and other body focused disorders can wreak havoc in a person's life. The shame associated can be debilitating. This group uses educational, CBT and emotive insight oriented approaches to help members overcome these behaviors in a ...
DBT for Substance Use Disorders
Individuals who struggle with problematic drug or alcohol use frequently struggle with symptoms that DBT was developed to address including difficulty controlling emotions, unstable sense of identity, feelings of emptiness, impulsive behaviors, and interpersonal conflicts. Special DBT skills have been ...
Hosted by Erez Harari
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10024
Individuals who struggle with problematic drug or alcohol use frequently struggle with symptoms that DBT was developed to address including difficulty controlling emotions, unstable sense of identity, feelings of emptiness, impulsive behaviors, and interpersonal conflicts. Special DBT skills have been ...
Adult DBT Skills Training Groups 
I offer 2 adult DBT skills training groups. Clients may choose to participate in one of the following: Monday 7:00pm to 8:30 pm; Wednesday 6:00 to 7:30. Both groups are on Zoom.
Hosted by Lisa A Napolitano
Psychologist, PhD, JD
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10022
I offer 2 adult DBT skills training groups. Clients may choose to participate in one of the following: Monday 7:00pm to 8:30 pm; Wednesday 6:00 to 7:30. Both groups are on Zoom.
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Online Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Group
Mentalization is the capacity to understand ourselves and others in the context of mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, desires, wishes, or fears. MBT groups aim to strengthen participants' ability to mentalize, thereby allowing them to better maintain relationships and ...
Hosted by Amie M. Roe
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10001
Mentalization is the capacity to understand ourselves and others in the context of mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, desires, wishes, or fears. MBT groups aim to strengthen participants' ability to mentalize, thereby allowing them to better maintain relationships and ...
DBT Multi-Family Skills Group
Adolescent and parent attend together. This therapy is helpful in reducing family conflict. Adolescents learn to replace problem behaviors with more adaptive ones. Parents learn to better understand and support their teen in managing emotions and behaviors. 24 sessions
Hosted by Jerome H Kogan
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10017
Adolescent and parent attend together. This therapy is helpful in reducing family conflict. Adolescents learn to replace problem behaviors with more adaptive ones. Parents learn to better understand and support their teen in managing emotions and behaviors. 24 sessions
DBT-Based Healthy Living Group
This DBT-based group not only focuses on reducing self-harming behaviors--including eating disorders, addictions, cutting, or any behavioral patterns interfering with the potential to live life with a measure of effectiveness--but is also appropriate for individuals seeking to navigate chronic interpersonal ...
Hosted by Sylvia Martinez
Art Therapist, LCAT, ATR-BC
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10014
This DBT-based group not only focuses on reducing self-harming behaviors--including eating disorders, addictions, cutting, or any behavioral patterns interfering with the potential to live life with a measure of effectiveness--but is also appropriate for individuals seeking to navigate chronic interpersonal ...
Book Club Therapy Group
This is a one month-long virtual therapy group that will read and process The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar is a classic book published in 1963 known for poignantly addressing one woman's mental health experience. Topics that ...
Hosted by Brianne Rose-Baker
Counselor, MS, LMHC, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10001
This is a one month-long virtual therapy group that will read and process The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar is a classic book published in 1963 known for poignantly addressing one woman's mental health experience. Topics that ...
Online Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Group
Mentalization is the capacity to understand ourselves and others in the context of mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, desires, wishes, or fears. MBT groups aim to strengthen participants' ability to mentalize, thereby allowing them to better maintain relationships and ...
Hosted by Amie M. Roe
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10001
Mentalization is the capacity to understand ourselves and others in the context of mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, desires, wishes, or fears. MBT groups aim to strengthen participants' ability to mentalize, thereby allowing them to better maintain relationships and ...
DBT Group Now Forming on Thursdays 7-8:30pm
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy identifies and changes negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes. DBT Group Therapy at Gateway to Solutions focuses on mindfulness; interpersonal effectiveness, stress tolerance, and emotional regulation. DBT treats Depression, Anxiety, Self-Harm, Personality Disorders, Binge-eating, ...
Hosted by Valerie Paige Kowalski
Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW, REBT, DBT, CBT
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10006
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy identifies and changes negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes. DBT Group Therapy at Gateway to Solutions focuses on mindfulness; interpersonal effectiveness, stress tolerance, and emotional regulation. DBT treats Depression, Anxiety, Self-Harm, Personality Disorders, Binge-eating, ...
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Self-Harming Support Groups
How does therapy for self-harm work?
A person may turn to self-injury so that they can distract themselves from their stress, depression, anxiety, or upsetting circumstances. Therapy can address the cause of an individual’s suffering. A therapist can help a person understand why they may want to self-harm and help the person learn new methods of coping. A person may have poor emotion regulation, and treatment such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is helpful for breaking this behaviour. In addition, treatment such as dialectical behavior therapy can help a person manage their tolerance of distress.
Which therapies are best for self-harm?
Specific approaches used by professionals include cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, psychodynamic, and mentalisation-based therapies, among others. Cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies are common approaches for people who have painful thoughts and past traumas. These therapies help an individual cope with distress, regulate emotions, and manage impulsive urges.
Does the tendency to self-harm mean the person is suicidal?
Having this urge does not mean the individual suffers from suicidal ideation. People who want to self-injure look to distract or alleviate themselves from the pain they are experiencing. People with suicidal tendencies want to end life altogether. However, this does not mean a person with the intent to self-harm will not attempt suicide.
How often and how long are therapy sessions for self-harm?
As with any type of therapy, sessions depend on the individual. Clients may see improvement within 20 sessions, at an average of 50 minutes per session, while others may opt for 20 to 30 sessions over, maybe, a six-month period. People, especially those with co-occurring conditions like depression and anxiety, may need to continue therapy for up to 12 to 18 months.