Entries by DBT Center

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Transformative Healing: Understanding EMDR for Borderline Personality Disorder

Individuals living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be an emotional rollercoaster, filled with intense emotions and challenges in forming stable relationships. Eye Movement, Desensitization, and Reprocessing (EMDR) with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) can help in alleviating the distress associated with BPD. In this blog, we will explore what EMDR therapy is, how it works, […]

EMDR and Anxiety: A Path to Healing and Recovery

Is anxiety and fear a significant problem in your life? You may find yourself struggling with anxiety, fears, panic, unsettling thoughts, painful memories, and constant worry. Anxiety disorders can affect various aspects of your life. As a result, it leaves you feeling exhausted, broken, and overwhelmed. But here’s the good news – you’re not alone. […]

EMDR Therapy: Illuminating a Path Out of Depression

Depression is a relentless cloud of sadness that hangs over your life. Zapping your energy and enjoyment in what you once loved. It’s a feeling that’s hard to shake and even harder to understand. But what if there was a ray of hope, a transformative therapy that could help you find your way out of […]

Favorite Local Restaurants For Date Night in Las Vegas, NV

My husband and I work at having a weekly date night.  We start off with dinner at one of our favorite restaurants.  We have done this for many years.  After so many years, we got into a rut asking each other “What do you want for dinner”, the other’s response would be “I don’t know, […]

Hiking as a Way to Destress in Las Vegas, NV

When I moved to Las Vegas 5 years ago, I experienced a lot of excitement with being in a new place, and new possibilities. I had visited Las Vegas many times throughout my life, mainly the strip, so I was looking forward to knowing more about what Las Vegas had to offer. However, there was […]

Realistic New Years Resolutions

Welcome to 2022. It is time to make those dreaded New Year’s Resolutions that we all tend to forget by Valentine’s Day. For some of us we ruminate on the “should” about not doing them or by telling ourselves we will do it tomorrow and when we don’t do finish our goal, we often feel […]

What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for PTSD? And How Can DBT PE Help?

What is PTSD? Post-Trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that develops after someone has experienced, witnessed, or learned about one or more traumatic events. PTSD symptoms can start right away or take time to appear.  The intensity of symptoms can vary over time. A professional (online therapist, psychologist, or psychiatrist) will assess your symptoms […]

Benefits of Online Therapy in Las Vegas

You’re overwhelmed with life. You don’t know if you really want to be here. You’re certainly anxious and depressed, but the typical talk therapy just isn’t working. Most days you are struggling to find motivation for literally anything. These feelings are normal for people who have been through a lot, so you are not alone. It […]

3 Mindfulness Tools for When You Want to Self-Harm

Over the years as Dialectical Behavior Therapy specialists, we have helped many individuals who use self-harm as a coping mechanism. Let me repeat that: self-harm is a coping mechanism. When feelings get to be too much to handle, it makes sense that you or someone you love may use self-harm to escape from reality for […]