Dbt Institute of MI

I was an impatient resident there. They saved my life. They are so kind and sweet and caring. All they want is the best for you. You get out of the program what you put into that program. I, to this day, still catch myself using every single skill that they taught me. And I am so thankful for everybody there

This place has some serious issues they need to work through. Take your friends, family, self, and loved ones somewhere else. Not open to owning their part and role in the pain or suffering they cause to others. Anything to just feel better about themselves about what happened. There is a complete lack of acknowledgement and accountability for the way they impact others, despite how they "pride" themselves on being skillful and claim to model that and get patients to do the same. If you want iatrogenic care, or a clinician/owner who refers to patients as coercive or manipulative when they express suicidal intent (direct words), TELLS the patient this, TELLS them they "resent them," doesn't follow adherent DBT protocol, ignores life threatening behaviors, & shifts the conversation when they are in distress, doesn't own up to how they led to the problem, then this place is for you. If you want a therapist who responds to your severe distress and preoccupation with suicidality by prioritizing session time explaining why you should stop talking about it because it makes THEM anxious to deal with it—instead of ACTUAL therapy and healing, thereby reinforcing the problem—this place might also be for you. Also, telling their client that they have "other patients they need to pay attention to" instead before dropping them. As if that has absolutely anything to do with the client receiving therapy. Sounds like an issue you need to deal with yourself. Then tries to hide what happened from others and justify it. Unethically discharges patients and claims it's a dbt tool, weaponizes Marsha's teachings and acts like she would be so called proud of that. Don't come here unless you want to see your loved ones suffer. To say the least. Retraumatizing to her to say the least. Plus, they’ll blame someone's reaction to stuff like this on BPD instead of taking responsibility for what they said or did.