Questions? Suffolk DBT Roslyn (516) 714-4707 | Babylon Suffolk DBT (631) 403-4719 | Mt. Sinai (631) 828-2264 | NYC (646) 939-5210
Questions? Suffolk DBT Roslyn (516) 714-4707 | Babylon Suffolk DBT (631) 403-4719 | Mt. Sinai (631) 828-2264 | NYC (646) 939-5210
Are you struggling with alcohol or drug use and looking for professional support in NYC? Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) can help you gain control over your substance use by teaching practical skills to manage cravings, tolerate difficult emotions, and cope with triggers without relying on alcohol or drugs. Admitting there’s a problem takes courage, and it’s natural to feel scared or overwhelmed. Substance use can feel unmanageable, affecting work, relationships, and your ability to achieve life goals. Even if you’ve tried to cut down on your own, the effects can be far-reaching—for you and your loved ones. Seeking DBT treatment is an important step toward building a life worth living.
Suffolk DBT with a beautiful office within walking distance of Penn Station can help you address your substance abuse before it destroys your life. We provide evidence-based treatment that will help you to end your struggle with addiction. Our goal is to not just treat your substance abuse but to also address the long term difficulties that go along with maintaining abstinence.
What Does Substance Abuse Look Like?
Substance abuse is when a person cannot control the impulse to use alcohol or drugs even when there are negative consequences—the defining characteristic of addiction. You may experience a variety of different symptoms before you decide to ask for help. These can include:
Often times, substance abuse develops as a way to cope with ongoing emotional vulnerabilities as well as other the symptoms of these disorders, which may only exacerbate the symptoms. In addition, addiction may mask the symptoms of any co-occurring disorder, making it difficult to diagnose and properly treat another disorder.
At Suffolk DBT in New York City, our DBT-based substance use program is designed to help you reduce use with the goal of eventual abstinence. In individual DBT sessions, your behavioral patterns and triggers are explored in depth. Daily monitoring—including urges to use, actual substance use, emotions, and any suicidal thoughts—is reviewed in each session to identify patterns and vulnerabilities. Behavioral chain analysis helps uncover the events, responses, and environmental factors that contribute to substance use, so you can learn more effective ways to cope.
Your individual therapist works with you to build alternative behavioral skills, maintain motivation, and support your commitment to change. In weekly DBT skills groups, you will learn practical skills—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—that help you create a life worth living.
Rather than allowing overwhelming emotions to drive substance use, you will learn to tolerate and regulate your feelings while solving problems effectively in daily life. Relapse prevention strategies are integrated into both individual therapy and skills groups. You will also have the opportunity to practice skills and seek support between sessions through coaching with your therapist, helping you generalize what you learn to real-world situations.
Substance use often develops alongside difficulties with emotion regulation, impulsivity, trauma responses, and relationship instability. Our adherent Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) approach treats substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions together, rather than in isolation.
We commonly work with individuals experiencing:
• Substance Use Disorders (including alcohol and other substances)
• Borderline Personality Disorder and emotion dysregulation
• Depression and mood disorders
• Anxiety disorders, including panic and social anxiety
• Post-traumatic stress and trauma-related symptoms
• Self-harm and suicidal behaviors
• Disordered eating behaviors that co-occur with substance use
• Impulsivity and high-risk behaviors
• Relationship instability and interpersonal difficulties
Treatment is individualized and grounded in the DBT hierarchy of targets, with a focus on reducing life-threatening and therapy-interfering behaviors while building skills for long-term stability and recovery.
Yes. Addiction is a treatable, chronic disease that can be managed successfully. Research shows that combining behavioral therapy with medications, when indicated, is the best way to ensure success. Treatment approaches must be individually tailored to address each patient’s substance use patterns and substance-related medical, psychiatric, and social problems as are standard in the DBT approach.
At Suffolk DBT, you receive full-model DBT from a caring, coordinated treatment team who supports you every step of the way. Our approach includes individual therapy, skills groups, family involvement, and skills coaching between sessions to help you apply what you learn in real life. Our welcoming NYC office, just a short walk from Penn Station, provides a comfortable space where you can focus on building skills, managing emotions, and creating a life worth living. We have been in practice in NYC since 2021 and on Long Island since 2008. We invest in staff training and maintain high standards to ensure every client receives compassionate, evidence-based care. One of the best parts of being a client with us is that you not only have an individual therapist but an entire team that is behind your success.
For more DBT therapy information on how we can help, contact our NYC office today
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Suffolk DBT proudly provides quality dialectical behavior therapy, a form of cognitive behavioral therapy, at their offices in Manhattan and Long Island, New York and online. Their experienced NYC counselors specialize in serving teens, children, adults, and college students struggling with depression, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, and self-harm. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills and treatment can help you to manage emotions and work through life’s challenges.
