Usually, yes. In-person therapy in places like NYC, SF, LA, Boston run $200-400+ per session easily. Grouport's pricing is the same whether you're in Manhattan or Montana, which means significant savings if you're located in an urban city. Grouport’s Individual therapy sessions average $103/session and our group sessions are between $25-$35/session which are both way less than one in-person individual therapy or group therapy session in most expensive cities. You're also saving commute time and money, no $20 Uber rides or subway fare to get to appointments.

Sometimes. If your medical expenses (including therapy) exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income, you might be able to deduct the excess on your taxes. Most people don't hit that threshold. Using HSA/FSA gives you tax savings another way through pre-tax dollars. Consult a tax professional about your specific situation.

Self-directed anger often involves shame, perfectionism, or harsh inner criticism. Therapy helps through challenging harsh self-beliefs, developing self-compassion, addressing perfectionism, and sometimes trauma work. Self-anger is particularly painful because it maintains depression and low self-worth, and relationships suffer if you have a poor perception of yourself. Developing self-compassion and self-understanding helps improve things tremendously.

Trauma therapy doesn't change your identity, it just removes trauma's distorting effects. These are positive changes removing trauma's burden, not fundamental personality changes. You'll still be you just without trauma's weight and you’ll be less burdened. You gain freedom from trauma controlling you. Most people find they become more themselves through healing.

Managed is more accurate than cured. Most people learn to live well with anxiety rather than eliminate it entirely. Skills learned in therapy provide tools to manage flare-ups quickly before they escalate.

BPD stigma creates understandable fear about diagnosis. Having a diagnosis can open access to effective treatment. Diagnosis isn't what you are, it just describes what you're experiencing. Diagnosis is often used as a tool for effective treatment planning. That said, if you notice yourself having similar symptoms, you don’t need a formal diagnosis to benefit and many people find tremendous value from DBT even if they are not sure what their diagnosis is or if they have a diagnosis at all since DBT helps with universal skills around emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal skills. So, it’s not important to overly focus on diagnosis, but rather to seek DBT treatment if you find that you could benefit in these core areas.

Wise mind is the integration of emotion mind (making decisions based only on feelings) and reasonable mind (making decisions based only on logic and facts). When you're in emotion mind, you do impulsive things that feel right in the moment but aren't actually wise. When you're in reasonable mind, you ignore your feelings and gut instincts. Wise mind considers both, what do my emotions tell me and what do the facts say? It's the sweet spot where intuition and logic come together. Accessing wise mind usually requires some mindfulness and distance from the immediate emotional intensity. You ask "what would my wise self advise?" or "what decision will I feel good about tomorrow?"

Regular talk therapy often focuses on insight, understanding why you feel or act certain ways, processing past experiences, exploring patterns. DBT does some of that but emphasizes skills training, teaching you concrete tools you can use right now. Traditional DBT is pretty structured: individual therapy plus a weekly skills group plus phone coaching when you're in crisis. Grouport offers DBT skills groups and DBT individual therapy, and many people combine the two at different levels of intensiveness or do our IOP focused on DBT. The whole approach is more active and directive than traditional psychodynamic therapy. You're practicing skills, tracking your use of them, getting feedback. It's less about insight and more about behavior change.

The program covers a year's worth of curriculum, so some may be review and other material will be new. Even skills you've heard of before might be taught in more depth than you've previously done. You can still benefit from the program for refreshing and deepening skills you learned before, gaining skills you didn't cover before, and learning additional insights and applications. If you've had partial DBT background, the program provides what you're likely missing. Even if you have an extensive DBT background, DBT skills require ongoing practice and periodic review to maintain effectiveness. So, many people do the self guided DBT program at various different levels of background in DBT so they can have a thorough program to go through and practice skills at their own pace.

Yes, the content teaches standard evidence-based DBT skills developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan. The program was developed by licensed therapists who specialize in DBT and who follow the standard curriculum. The self-guided version teaches those same evidence-based skills, just in a self paced format rather than through therapy. The difference is delivery format self-guided versus live therapy, rather than content quality.

Contact Grouport support at support@grouporttherapy.com. We will help with any tech issues or billing questions.

You get what you put in, so with less practice you naturally get less benefit. Consistency matters and practicing many times over is essential for skill development. But it's self-paced and you get lifetime access so you can pick it back up whenever. So it's okay if a lapse happens in your practice, forgive yourself and don’t be a perfectionist about it, just re-start and be sure to put in the work and overtime that’ll help you make progress.