DBT Skills Program

Cedar Hills Outpatient Services’ DBT Skills program provides ongoing treatment after a crisis and may even help you to avoid a mental health crisis in the future. Patients will attend group therapy three to five days a week and will also have check-ins with both their assigned therapist and psychiatrist or PMHNP. The DBT Skills program is available via telehealth (virtual).

Programs & Services at Coral Shores Behavioral Health

The Four Modules of DBT

Our DBT Skills program is designed to follow the four modules of DBT: mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation and distress tolerance. The DBT Skills program follows a structured DBT specific curriculum. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (or DBT) is an evidence-based treatment modality to help you get back to living a life you want, and living it well.

Our DBT Program provides:

  • A welcoming, warm and safe environment for you to share
  • Education on self-care, coping skills, interpersonal skills, crisis prevention, relapse prevention and emotion regulation.
  • Opportunity to help you understand your symptoms in a peer setting
  • A trauma-informed care team
  • Medication evaluation/management

Find Our DBT Skills Program in Portland, Oregon

If you or a loved one is struggling with mental illness, substance abuse or psychiatric distress, please call Cedar Hills Hospital at 503-974-3600 for a no-cost, confidential assessment. We cannot offer diagnosis, counseling or recommendations online, but professionals are available to speak with you 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

For emergencies, CALL 911 or seek the nearest emergency room.

Hours for DBT Skills Program

Partial Hospitalization
Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m

Intensive Outpatient
Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. (Three to five days per week)

Our Outpatient facility is conveniently located across the street from Cedar Hills Hospital at
1815 SW Marlow Avenue, Suite 218
Portland, OR 97225
(971) 228-8000