Self-Directed DBT Skills: 3-Month DBT Workbook
Regulate Intense Emotions and Create Lasting Change with Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Created by psychologist Dr. Marsha Linehan, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based approach for managing difficult emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
In Self-Directed DBT Skills, DBT experts Kiki Fehling and Elliot Weiner teach readers DBT skills in four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Filled with actionable exercises, this 3-month guide will help you build a strong foundation for emotional well-being and create lasting change—even if you can’t find a DBT therapist right now.
What People Are Saying
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"I have now bought this book for three of my friends and am constantly recommending it to others. .... You know that feeling that you get every once in a blue moon in talking therapy, when you have a breakthrough, after months of work and feel your insides rearrange like a rubix cube? I felt that every single week when working through this book. I have learnt so much and I finally have hope again."
—Amazon Review from Reader
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“Self-Directed DBT Skills is the first authoritative, practical DBT skills book for clients... This book is well written, so anyone can easily understand the skills, and the content is sophisticated, closely matching what Marsha Linehan taught me when I was her student.”
—Milton Brown, PhD, clinic director and founder, DBT Center of San Diego
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"I was absolutely skeptical beginning this workbook as I have long struggled with mental health troubles. ... after years of struggling with communication, assertiveness, setting boundaries, depression and anxiety; doing this workbook while participating in EMDR sessions has absolutely changed my life. Thank you for helping me help myself!"
—Amazon review from reader
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“Drs. Fehling and Weiner expertly distill the essence of DBT skills in a 12-week self-guided program. Anyone wanting to learn new, healthy ways of skillfully responding to problems would benefit from using this book.”
—Shireen L. Rizvi, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Montefiore Einstein; coauthor of Real Skills for Real Life; and co-editor of DBT in Clinical Practice
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"My daughter’s therapist recommended this book and it may have saved my husband’s life. It is to be done with therapy, not in the place of therapy. But if you need impetus, to get that push to get you started, you can use it for that."
—Amazon review from reader
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"This book makes the powerful skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy accessible to anyone who struggles to manage their emotions. ... This is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn more about DBT skills and how to use them to build the life you want to have."
—Melanie Harned, PhD, associate professor at the University of Washington, psychologist and coordinator of the DBT Program at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, and author of Treating Trauma in Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The DBT Prolonged Exposure Protocol (DBT PE)