Grouport Series
Improve your relationships, reduce emotional suffering, manage anxiety and rediscover hope for the future by taking the first step in your journey toward total mastery of DBT skills.
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Our online DBT course covers everything you need: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, delivered through structured DBT modules and weekly DBT groups. This isn't just another DBT class, it's a full DBT skills and training curriculum built to replace the behaviors and emotions causing friction in your life and relationships.
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This Series kicks off with intensive DBT Core Principles modules, which will help you begin to transform your mental health.
Every week you'll join a close-knit DBT skills group of individuals virtually, providing encouragement and accountability as you explore DBT essentials together.
The DBT Core Principles modules are a required first step before you unlock the next Group Series group level, where we dive deeper into the methodology and practical applications that make DBT so successful.
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Nicholas Chalmers
LMFT
Nicholas Chalmers, LMFT, is a marriage and family therapist who specializes in trauma and family systems and who has presented at national and state-level mental health conferences on mood and behavior problems in adolescents. He is currently affiliated with one of Florida’s highest-rated sexual abuse treatment teams in Sarasota, FL., and has presented specialized skills to therapists all over the state of Florida in the field of sexual abuse-related trauma, sponsored by the Florida Department of Health, Division of Children’s Medical Services.
Cal Hilsman
LISW-CP
Cal Hilsman, LICSW-CP Cal, is a Licensed Independent Social Worker- Clinical Practice (LISW-CP). He has over 7 years of clinical experience. Cal gained experience through University counseling, refugee wellness, dialysis counseling, a community-based mental health clinic, and private practice. He utilizes approaches such as ACT, CBT, DBT, family systems, humanistic, person-centered, and existential psychotherapy. Cal brings a unique array of life experiences to his practice, which allows him to connect with people across the lifespan.
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Teri Terrusa
LCSW
Teri Terrusa, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and a certified hypnotherapist. She has over 10 years of experience providing therapy to all age ranges and mental health concerns. She utilizes a variety of modalities including CBT, DBT, ACT, EMDR EFT( tapping) and Brainspotting. She enjoys teaching DBT and ACT groups while also blending them together as she has found these approaches to be very helpful for what she likes to call “the condition of being human.”
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Dr. Trent Nguyen
Ph.D, LPC, NCC
Dr. Trent Nguyen has extensive experience working with adults of all ages to help individuals identify and reach their goals. He has experience working with diverse populations struggling with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse, etc. Dr. Nguyen utilizes DBT, CBT and Solutions-Focused Therapy to address several mental health concerns. He has knowledge and training in PTSD with war veterans as well as children in the foster care system. Dr. Nguyen uses his educational and professional background to support group dynamics.
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Shonna Burnett
LPC
Shonna Burnett, LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor that has over 15 years of experience. Shonna is dedicated to helping clients with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationships and helping individuals to become their best possible self. She utilizes several approaches to help her clients; such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Shonna is able to utilize many different approaches to help all her clients achieve their therapeutic goals. She strongly believes in creating an open and safe environment for all individuals, where their thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment.
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Nathalie Fleitas
LMHC
Nathalie Fleitas, LMHC, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). She is a bilingual, Cuban-American therapist based in Miami, FL with over 10 years clinical experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. Nathalie integrates various theories of psychotherapy such as Schema Therapy, DBT, multicultural feminist therapies, and ACT. These approaches help support her work with clients, and draws upon her own lived experience as a neurodivergent therapist.
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Dr. Amanda Faucher
PhD, LMHC-S, LPC, ACS, MCAP, CTP
Dr. Faucher has extensive experience of providing therapeutic services to all ages. She has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings and utilizes CBT, reality therapy, DBT and SFBT. She has experience with couples, depression, anxiety, addictions, and family therapy. She is also certified in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), addictions, and telehealth. Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to help clients become the best version of themselves while improving confidence, communication, and relationships. She is open-minded, unbiased, and welcoming to all. Her groups will offer practical approaches to begin working towards goals right away.
Susana Potter
LMHC, R-DMT
Susana Potter, LMHC, BC-DMT, is a skilled psychotherapist with over 14 years of experience in the mental health field. She offers an embodied approach to counseling which goes beyond traditional talk therapy, by integrating unique techniques into her practice such as dance/movement therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, yoga and mindfulness.
Week 1: Introductions & DBT Basics
Week 2: Dialectics - Principles & Applications
Week 3: Mindfulness - Mindfulness Myths & The Wise Mind
Week 4: Emotion Regulation - Changing Your Relationship to Emotions
Week 5: Emotion Regulation - Techniques
Week 6: Distress Tolerance - Guidelines for Use
Week 7: Distress Tolerance - Techniques
Week 8: Interpersonal Effectiveness - Building & Maintaining Strong Relationships
Week 9: Interpersonal Effectiveness - Techniques
Week 10: Cognitive Modification & Problem Solving
Week 11: Dependences - Changing Behaviors & Urges
Week 12: Building a Satisfying Life - Everyday Care
AFTER COMPLETING THE DBT CORE PRINCIPLES COURSE,
you'll enter the next Grouport Series levels, "Advanced DBT Skills" where we will:
Month 4 - Mindfulness
Month 5 - Distress Tolerance
Month 6 - Emotion Regulation
Month 7 - Interpersonal Effectiveness
Month 8 - Putting it all together
Your advanced DBT skills course is billed at $100/month after your 12-week Dialectical Behavior Therapy Principles Curriculum Course ends. If you have any questions about our advanced DBT skills course, please contact us at support@grouporttherapy.com for details.
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Grouport's online DBT Skills Group is explicitly built around managing anxiety and emotional regulation, alongside relationship struggles, through a curriculum covering all four DBT pillars: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Emotion Regulation. The Emotion Regulation module specifically teaches how to identify, categorize, and build a healthier relationship with intense emotions. Sessions are led weekly by licensed clinicians over Zoom, with a small group of up to 12 members, making this a structured option rather than a generic self-help course.
Every session in Grouport's DBT Skills Group is led live by a licensed clinician, not pre-recorded.
1. One weekly virtual session over Zoom with the same clinician and up to 12 group members.
2. A reminder email with your unique meeting link arrives 24 hours in advance.
3. Real-time guidance rather than a self-paced video course.
4. Licensed clinicians on this series include Nicholas Chalmers, LMFT, Teri Terrusa, LCSW, and Dr. Trent Nguyen, PhD, LPC, NCC
Not as part of this specific program, this is a group-only course, one weekly session with the same licensed clinician and up to 12 classmates, without individual 1:1 coaching built in. If personalized, one-on-one support matters to you, Grouport's individual therapy is a separate service that can be added alongside this DBT group. The two aren't bundled together here, so you'd enroll in each independently depending on what kind of support you're actually looking for.
Through this Grouport Series on Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills, you'll learn strategic new skills to replace behaviors and emotions that are causing friction in your daily life and relationships. Check out the full 12-week curriculum for the DBT Core Principles course above, and note that the group will continue on after these initial introductory weeks, diving deeper into the methodology and practical applications that make DBT so effective.
Grouport's DBT Skills Group isn't marketed as a dedicated addiction recovery program, but Week 11, "Dependences - Changing Behaviors & Urges," directly addresses dependence-related skills, including dialectical abstinence and urge management. For addiction-specific treatment, Grouport separately offers a program focused on substance use and addiction. DBT's broader emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills can meaningfully support recovery work, but this series functions as a general DBT curriculum rather than an addiction-specialized track.
This general DBT series isn't BPD-specific, though its core skills apply broadly to anyone working on emotional regulation and relationships.
1. Covers Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Emotion Regulation for a general audience.
2. Grouport offers a separate DBT Skills Group built specifically for BPD, with BPD-focused framing and licensed clinicians trained in that presentation throughout.
3. Choose the BPD-specific series if borderline personality disorder is your primary concern, or this general series for broader DBT skill-building instead.
Grouport's DBT Skills Group is led by a genuinely large roster of licensed clinicians, not a single instructor. Therapists include Nicholas Chalmers, LMFT; Cal Hilsman, LISW-CP; Teri Terrusa, LCSW; Dr. Trent Nguyen, PhD, LPC, NCC; Shonna Burnett, LPC; Nathalie Fleitas, LMHC; Dr. Amanda Faucher, PhD, LMHC-S, LPC; and Susana Potter, LMHC, R-DMT. Each brings years of clinical experience across trauma, anxiety, addiction, and family systems, so the specific clinician leading your group carries real, verifiable credentials rather than a generic facilitator title.
Grouport's entire DBT course runs through telehealth, one weekly Zoom session led live by a licensed clinician, with your unique meeting link emailed 24 hours ahead of time. There's no office visit required, sessions happen from wherever you have a private internet connection. This format stays consistent across both the initial 12-week DBT Core Principles course and the Advanced DBT Skills months that follow, so the entire multi-month program remains fully remote from start to finish.
"Most comprehensive" is subjective, so here's the actual scope of Grouport's program.
1. A 12-week DBT Core Principles course covering all four DBT pillars.
2. Followed by 5 additional months of Advanced DBT Skills (Months 4-8), going deeper into each pillar.
3. Advanced training includes DEARMAN, FAST, and GIVE skills for interpersonal effectiveness, and ABC and PLEASE skills for emotion regulation.
4. Roughly 8 months of structured, clinician-led curriculum total, not a single standalone class.
This series isn't a dedicated trauma-focused program, but DBT's core skills, especially distress tolerance and emotion regulation, are commonly used alongside trauma-informed care. Several Grouport clinicians bring direct trauma experience to their practice, and Grouport separately offers trauma and PTSD-focused treatment for anyone whose primary concern is trauma specifically. If trauma is your main reason for seeking support, that dedicated track, or individual therapy with a trauma-informed clinician, may be a better first step than this general DBT series.
Billing here isn't flexible in the sense of multiple plan options, it's a fixed structure: $299 upfront for the first 3-month DBT Core Principles course, then $100/month for the Advanced DBT Skills months that follow. There's no sliding scale, financing option, or alternate payment schedule described. You can cancel anytime, though amounts already paid aren't refunded. If predictable, flat pricing matters more than plan flexibility, this structure is straightforward, but not built around customizable payment options.
Both are evidence-based, but they approach emotional regulation differently.
1. DBT teaches direct emotion regulation skills, identifying, naming, and actively changing your relationship to intense emotions.
2. ACT focuses more on accepting difficult emotions without necessarily changing them, paired with values-based action.
3. DBT's four-pillar structure gives it a more structured, skills-training format overall.
4. Grouport's DBT Skills Group follows this structured approach specifically, rather than an ACT framework.
The 12-week DBT Core Principles course moves through a specific weekly structure: Week 1 covers DBT basics and personal goals, Weeks 2-3 introduce dialectics and mindfulness, Weeks 4-7 focus on emotion regulation and distress tolerance techniques, Weeks 8-9 build interpersonal effectiveness, Week 10 covers cognitive modification, Week 11 addresses dependence and urges, and Week 12 focuses on building a satisfying daily life. Each week pairs a themed module with practical, applicable skills rather than abstract theory alone.
After completing the DBT Core Principles course, members unlock Advanced DBT Skills, five additional months (Months 4 through 8) that go deeper into each DBT pillar. This includes Radical Acceptance and Crisis Survival Skills in Month 5, ABC and PLEASE skills for emotion regulation in Month 6, and DEARMAN, FAST, and GIVE skills for interpersonal effectiveness in Month 7, closing with Month 8's focus on integrating everything learned into daily life. It's billed separately at $100/month once the core course concludes.
Yes, Grouport can provide documentation confirming you've completed the coursework.
1. A certificate or letter demonstrating successful completion of the DBT skills group.
2. Full attendance across the first 12 weeks of the DBT Core Principles course is required before this can be issued.
3. Continuing into Advanced DBT Skills afterward is encouraged to help retain what you've learned.
4. Reach out through the chat feature or support@grouporttherapy.com with specific documentation questions.
The DBT Core Principles course is billed at $299 upfront, covering the first 3 months. Once that 12-week course wraps up, Advanced DBT Skills continues at $100/month, covering Months 4 through 8 and beyond. There's no separate insurance billing involved, this runs on flat, predictable pricing, and you can cancel at the end of any billing cycle. Questions about advanced-course billing specifically can be directed to support@grouporttherapy.com.
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