EMBRACE THE FUTURE WITH DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
Your Life, Reimagined
JOANA PANCADA
psychotherapist
Joana Pancada holds a Master of Psychotherapy Research, specialising in Experiential Focusing, from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. This degree is recognised by the British Association of Counselors and Psychotherapists (BACP). She also holds a BA in person-centered counselling from the University of Brighton, England.
Joana has worked as a psychotherapist and led therapy groups in Brighton, London, Barcelona and Lisbon. She has designed and offered numerous personal development workshops, including “The Use of Self”, “Focusing, Here and Now,” “Nature as therapy,” “Focusing Your Body’s Knowledge”, "'Mindfulness", "How emotions work", "How to cope with shame and guilt", and "How do we create meaning."
Joana wrote a full therapeutic program for a private clinic and a DBT skills course that she still uses in her practice.
Her approach is practical and humanistic.
ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
when we find the right tools everything can be possible
DBT INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS
Why choosing DBT?
• DBT can help us DECREASE our loss of touch with ourselves. Helping improve knowledge of our inner process, Increasing the possibility of PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.
• DBT helps to motivate us to CHANGE aspects of our lives that we can change.
• DBT can assist us in the development of more FUNCTIONAL behaviours and helps us to apply these in real-world situations.
• DBT can promote an environment that encourages SELF-CONFIDENCE, giving us tools to help effective change, and prepare us for situations that will occur in the real world.
DBT COURSES
Learning and Practice
DBT 4 Modules:
Mindfulness
The ability to be aware of your thoughts, emotions, physical sensations and actions – in the present moment –without judging or criticizing yourself or your experience.
Distress Tolerance
Developing the skills and methods that work for you when you are feeling distressed. This will enable you to survive crisis situations without making them worse, accept reality and have a means to move forward instead of being stuck in the same cycle of pain.
Emotional Regulation
A full-system that includes not only the way we feel, but the way we think, triggers physiologic reactions that cause changes in body chemistry and body language and triggers a behavioural reaction.
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Inter + person = Interaction between person to person Is the skill of:
Improving relationships, self- respect and balancing what we want with the demands placed on us.
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear”