Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) on Long Island & in NYC
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment for emotional and behavioral dysregulation. We provide structured DBT therapy across Long Island and NYC, with in-person therapy at our local offices and virtual options available throughout New York State
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When emotions feel big, everyday life can start to feel harder than it should.
Children, teens, adults, and families may feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, stuck in repeated conflicts, shutting down, acting impulsively, or struggling to manage intense thoughts and feelings that don’t seem to let up.
At times, these experiences can be exhausting and confusing, especially when you’re doing everything you can and things still don’t feel better.
Families across Long Island come to Suffolk DBT for compassionate, structured, support that helps life being to feel manageable again.
What is DBT Therapy?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a structured, skills-based form of therapy that helps people make meaningful changes in their lives.
It combines practical strategies with real-life skill building to help you handle stress, improve relationships, and respond more effectively in difficult situations.
Rather than focusing on just one symptom, DBT helps people build skills that create more stability across their whole life.
These skills are organized into four key areas:
This therapy isn’t about turning you into someone else. Rather, It helps you understand and work with the emotional sensitivity you were born with, so life feels more manageable and less overwhelming.
Who is DBT For?
Life just isn’t the way you expected it to be.
Something feels off. Harder. Heavier.
Maybe your child has big emotions that take over. Your teen may be shutting down or pushing everyone away.
Or perhaps you’re the one trying to stay strong while feeling overwhelmed inside.
Emotional pain doesn’t look the same in every person or every family.
That’s why we offer DBT programs for children, teens, adults, and parents, each designed to meet you where you are and help everyday life feel more manageable and relationships more steady.
You don’t need a diagnosis to begin.
Right now, things just need to feel different than they do right now.
When Life Feels Out of Control
Sometimes it’s not just stress it’s dysregulation.
You may notice emotions rising quickly, urges and reactions happening before you have time to think, or feeling overwhelmed, shut down, or disconnected. Small situations can feel bigger than they are, and it may be hard to calm your body or regain clarity once your system is activated.
These experiences are not personal failures. They are signs that the nervous system is overwhelmed and struggling to return to balance.
When your system is overwhelmed, it can affect emotions, behaviors, thoughts, relationships, and your sense of self.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) helps you understand how emotions, behaviors, thoughts, relationships, and your sense of self are connected and teaches skills to help you regain stability and respond more intentionally in everyday life.
Common Struggles We Help With
Dialectical Behavior Therapy supports people who feel overwhelmed by emotions, stuck in patterns they want to change, or disconnected from themselves or others.
Instead of focusing on just one symptom, DBT helps people build stability, balance, and connection in everyday life. Even though these struggles can look very different from one person to another, they are often deeply connected. This treatment was specifically designed to address these patterns together, not one at a time.
Big Emotions That Feel Hard to Manage
When feelings hit fast and hard, it can be tough to calm yourself down. You might feel overwhelmed, flooded, or stuck in emotions that take a long time to settle.
Feeling Lost, Empty, or Disconnected From Yourself
When you feel empty, disconnected, dissociate, unsure of yourself , or where your life is going.
Overthinking, Racing Thoughts, or Mental Spirals
When thoughts become stuck, repetitive, self critical, or hard to step back from
Relationships That Feel Chaotic or Painful
Understanding interpersonal dysregulation and relationship patterns.
Impulsive Urges, Behaviors , and Actions That Feel Out of Control
Sometimes urges, lead to quick reactions you later regret, saying things, doing things, or making decisions before you have time to pause.
DBT was designed with structured skills modules that directly target these patterns. When woven together, they create a more balanced path toward lasting change.
- Strong emotions Emotion Regulation Skills
- Impulsive, reactive, crisis Distress Tolerance Skills
- Conflict with family, friends, school, work Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
- Thoughts are quick, critical, rumination Mindfulness Skills
- Not knowing yourself, dissociation, empty Mindfulness + Emotion Regulation Skills
Eventually, you learn to take a middle path in your thinking, feeling, and being. Seeing the world dialectically rather than in Black and white terms.
Learning to Live in the Grey
All together, these DBT Skills build stability, confidence, and stronger connections in everyday life.
Our DBT Programs
Because these challenges show up differently at different stages of life, we offer DBT programs tailored for children, teens, adults, and families.
No matter how challenges show up on the outside, many people are carrying powerful emotions on the inside.
DBT helps them learn new ways to respond with greater stability, confidence, and connection.
How DBT Works AT Suffolk DBT
The DBT Diary Card
Support daily skill tracking, awareness, and accountability
This integrated approach ensures that skills are not just learned intellectually, but practiced, reinforced, and generalized into everyday life.
Consultation Team
Our therapists work closely together as a DBT consultation team because we truly care about providing thoughtful, consistent, high-quality care.
Each client is supported by an entire team behind the scenes — not just one therapist so no one is navigating this work alone.
When it’s helpful, we also involve parents, partners, or other important supports. Progress is often stronger when the people who care about you understand the skills and can support growth outside of sessions.
More Ways we can Support you
While Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is at the core of our work, some clients benefit from additional specialized treatment approaches depending on their needs.
Our team is trained in several evidence-based therapies that support trauma recovery, emotional overcontrol, anxiety, and patterns that may not fully respond to standard DBT alone.
- Radically Open DBT (RO-DBT) for people who struggle with emotional overcontrol, perfectionism, and social withdrawal
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors contributing to anxiety, depression, and stress
- EMDR to help process and reduce the impact of traumatic memories
- DBT Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE) for clients ready to address trauma within the structure of DBT
- Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), a gentle, eye-movement based therapy that helps the brain reprocess distressing experiences
At Suffolk DBT, we believe in the hope and possibilities ahead for every person who walks through our doors.
When the path forward feels unclear, our team is here to guide you with compassion and steadiness.
We are therapists who care deeply and genuinely want to help, creating an environment of acceptance where clients feel understood and supported.
Respect for this treatment guides our work and inspires us to practice these principles and skills in our own lives.
Meet Our DBT Therapists
Stories of Growth and Change
Our Locations
We provide in-person DBT therapy across Long Island, including Mount Sinai, Babylon, and Roslyn Heights, as well as NYC, with Telehealth available statewide.
Suffolk County
5505 Nesconset Hwy #222
Mount Sinai, NY 11766
5505 Nesconset Hwy #222 Mount Sinai, NY 11766
Suffolk County
400 W Main St #340
Babylon, NY
11702
400 W Main St #340 Babylon, NY 11702
Nassau County
97 Powerhouse Road #104
Roslyn Heights, NY 11577
97 Powerhouse Road #104 Roslyn Heights, NY 11577
DBT Telehealth Services (New York State)
Available statewide for children, teens, adults, and families across New York when in-person care isn't accessible.
DBT Therapy via Telehealth
(New York State)
Available statewide for children, teens, adults, and families across Long Island and New York when in-person care isn’t possible or preferred.
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Your Path To Growth Starts Here with Suffolk DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) at Suffolk DBT is about meeting you where you are. We believe in creating a safe space filled with compassion and understanding. Our therapists and staff are dedicated to providing an environment so that you can thrive.
Providing compassionate, evidence-based DBT care for individuals and families across Long Island.
Completely confidential. Only takes 10-15 minutes.
