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Dialectical Behavior Therapy: DBT skills aim to help enhance one's capabilities in day-to-day life. The four skills a therapist will teach include:

• Mindfulness: This is the practice of being fully aware and focused in the present instead of worrying about the past or future.
• Distress tolerance: This involves understanding and managing your emotions in difficult or stressful situations without responding with harmful behaviors.
• Interpersonal effectiveness: This means understanding how to ask for what you want and need and setting boundaries while maintaining respect for yourself and others.
• Emotion regulation: This means understanding, being more aware of and having more control over your emotions.