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Feel more in control of your emotions
If you're emotionally sensitive, you may experience emotions more frequently and intensely than those around you. Being told you're "too sensitive", "dramatic" or need to "toughen up" can leave you questioning your own feelings or trying to push them away.
This six-week online programme will help you understand why you experience emotions the way you do and, importantly, what you can do with them. Using practical Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills, you'll learn how to recognise and understand your emotions, reduce their intensity and respond in ways that feel more considered and in control.
What will you gain from the programme?
Over the six weeks, you'll learn how to:
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Understand emotional sensitivity and why some people experience emotions more intensely
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Identify emotions and understand what they're communicating
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Recognise coping strategies that may be causing more difficulties over time
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Use DBT skills to reduce the intensity of difficult emotions
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Respond more effectively rather than reacting impulsively
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Reduce your vulnerability to emotions taking control
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Understand your personal values and how they influence healthy boundaries
What we'll cover
Week 1: Emotional sensitivity
Why are some of us more emotionally sensitive than others? The DBT Biosocial model as an explanation of emotional sensitivity. Understand the stress response and nervous system. Identify your goals for a fulfilling life.
Week 4: Common challenges
Understand common emotion regulation challenges for emotionally sensitive people. Learn DBT skills to gain impulse control to combat emotional reactions. Learn crisis skills to cope when emotions are super intense and create your own personalised plan for emotional crises situations.
Week 2: Vulnerability factors
Understand what makes us vulnerable to our emotions and to recognise when they are taking control of our decisions and behaviour. Gain an understanding of what emotion regulation really is.
Week 5: Changing unwanted emotions
Learn how to change your emotional reactions into considered responses that you won’t later regret. Identify opportunities to change an unwanted reaction using DBT skills.
Week 3: Validation & Dialectics
Learn the DBT skills of Validation and Dialectics and how they can help us reduce intense emotions. Recognise how our thinking patterns heavily influence our emotions and the intensity of them.
Week 6: Values & boundaries
Identify personal values, why they matter and how they can help us identify our own boundaries. Understand the importance of upholding values-based personal boundaries.
Programme details
The programme is delivered online via Zoom in a small, supportive group. Sessions combine psychoeducation, practical exercises and group discussion, with resources to help you put what you're learning into practice.
Start date: Tuesday 15 September
Time: 7pm–9pm
Duration: 6 weeks
Location: Online via Zoom
Group size: Maximum 10 participants
Cost: £557
Register your interest
If you'd like to join the next 6-Week Emotion Regulation Programme, complete the short form below.
I'll be in touch to arrange a free Zoom call so we can discuss the programme, answer any questions and make sure it's the right fit for you.
Before joining
I want to make sure the programme is the right fit for everyone taking part.
Once you've registered your interest, I'll arrange a short, free Zoom call with you. This gives us an opportunity to discuss what you're hoping to gain from the programme, answer any questions and make sure it's an appropriate form of support for you.
If we both feel it's a good fit, I'll then explain how to secure your place.