Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for Anxiety & Overthinking
DBT for anxiety helps you regulate intense emotions, reduce overwhelm, build healthier boundaries, and navigate relationships with more calm, clarity, and confidence.
When Your Thoughts Feel Loud, Spiraling, or Hard to Navigate…
Emotions don’t always play fair. (Or show up when you want them to.)
Sometimes they come with excitement. Celebrating wins and special moments you strived for.
Sometimes they come with stress, a conflict, a shift, a moment that catches you off guard.
And even when life looks good, you may still feel overwhelmed or unsure why everything feels so loud inside.
This may feel familiar if you’re the woman who:Feels emotions intensely, even when you’re trying to stay calm “together.”
Holds it together on the outside, while inside, your reactions feel bigger than you want them to.
Gets triggered quickly, maybe by a tone, a text, a shift, then spirals into doubt or overthinking.
Works hard to keep the peace, even when it means swallowing your own needs or feelings.
Wishes you can say no without guilt.
Whether your emotions feel steady or intense, quiet or overwhelming, they influence your urges, reactions, boundaries, and relationships. DBT helps you regulate and navigate with confidence, skill, and ease.
When Your Emotions Feel Big, Fast, or Hard to Manage
You’re capable, responsible, and the one people count on.
But inside, your emotions hit quickly and feel bigger than you think they should.
They rise fast, reacting to tone, tension, disappointment, pressure, or the slightest shift in someone’s energy.
Maybe your emotions:
✦ Spike suddenly, even when you’re trying to stay calm
✦ Get activated by a comment, silence, or subtle change
✦ Make you feel flooded, even when nothing “big” happened
✦ Impact your boundaries or reactions before you have time to think
✦ Pull you into people-pleasing so no one feels upset or disappointed
✦ Leave you drained or ashamed for responding more intensely than you wanted
You’ve tried holding it in.
You’ve tried staying calm.
You’ve tried pretending you’re fine.
But the intensity still shows up, fast, loud, and hard to regulate.
DBT helps you change that.
Client Love
“I have applied the tools that I learn every day to better myself every day. I have learned coping tools for anxiety, setting boundaries, and life skills that overall make me better.”
Why Standard Talk Therapy Isn’t Enough for Emotional Overwhelm, Triggers, and High-Achieving Women
Insight alone isn’t enough to regulate big emotions or stop reactive patterns.
High-achieving women need practical, skills-based support that helps them manage intensity in real time. Not just to understand where it comes from.
DBT gives you science-backed, proven tools that regulate emotions, reduce reactivity, set healthier boundaries, and move through stress and relationships with calm, clarity, and confidence.
Here’s the Truth: Why DBT at EleVolve℠ Works When Everything Is “Too Much”
DBT for Women Who Feel Deeply And Carry It All
I specialize in DBT for high-achieving women navigating emotional intensity, people-pleasing, and high-functioning anxiety.
You don’t need more talk therapy.
You deserve care with skills curated for ambitious women that help you go further, faster, not just “slow down."
Evidence-Based + Curated For You
This isn’t your typical “just think good thoughts” type of therapy.
At EleVolve, we integrate DBT's four core pillars: mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, into personalized sessions so you can feel grounded, steady, and supported in real life.
And honestly, who wouldn’t benefit from finding calm, handling things with ease, and having healthier, more aligned relationships?
Real Tools For The Moments That Matter Most
You’ll learn practical strategies for emotional spikes, hard conversations, and boundary setting.
You’ll learn when to say yes, when to say no, and to trust yourself to do so with clarity and confidence.
So you can show up as your best, most aligned self, not just sometimes… but consistently.
Build Emotional Clarity, Boundaries, and Confidence in Moments You Used to Feel Overwhelmed With DBT
About Dayna
Licensed therapist, EleVolve founder, and DBT specialistWith over 15 years of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) experience, I guide high-achieving women who feel emotionally overwhelmed, reactive, or pressured to hold everything together to learn the skills to regulate their emotions, set healthier boundaries, and respond with clarity.
Even the most successful women struggle with intense emotions and relational triggers, not because they’re “too much,” but because no one ever taught them how emotions work, why activation happens, or how to steady themselves in the moments that matter.
That’s where DBT becomes transformative.
At EleVolve, I blend evidence-based DBT skills with intuitive insight, supportive guidance, and nervous system awareness so you feel calmer, clearer, and more connected to yourself and get to live life on your terms.
Together, you’ll build a life that feels grounded, aligned, and emotionally free. One where you respond with intention, not overwhelm.
Client Love
“[EleVolve is] somewhere where you walk in knowing you'll be challenged in a way that you'll walk out feeling stronger, clearer, and better afterwards.”
How EleVolve℠ uses DBT
We use Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help you steady your emotions, understand your triggers, and choose responses that feel calm, aligned, and intentional.
These are the DBT skills we integrate to help you move through life with more emotional clarity, confidence, and ease.
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Mindfulness
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Emotion Regulation
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Distress Tolerance
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Interpersonal Skills
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Anxiety Relief
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Boundaries
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When Your Emotions Feel Like Too Much, DBT Helps You Navigate with Calm and Confidence.
Anxiety, overthinking, and spiraling thoughts aren’t signs of weakness. They’re responses to emotional overwhelm your system learned to survive. DBT offers structured, skills-based tools to help you regulate emotions, stay present, and navigate life and relationships with more clarity, balance, and self-trust.
Your Next Step:
Book a free 20-minute consultation to explore whether DBT at EleVolve is the right fit for you.
During this call, you’ll:
Talk through what you’ve been experiencing, such as emotional intensity, spirals, stress, or reactivity.
Clarify how you want to feel: more steady, centered, and in control.
Learn about EleVolve’s personalized, skills-focused DBT approach.
Decide if this evidence-based, transformative work is the next right step for you.
When your emotions feel overwhelming or hard to manage, support isn’t a luxury. It is a path toward a life that feels more stable, more connected, and more worth living.
When Your Inner World Feels Steadier,
Everything Starts To Shift
Frequently Asked Questions
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is science-backed, skills-based therapy that helps with overwhelming emotions, anxiety, and overthinking. It teaches tools like mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and boundary-setting so you can respond with clarity instead of spiraling.
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CBT focuses on changing thoughts.
DBT includes that, plus emotional regulation and relationship skills. It’s especially helpful if you’ve tried therapy before but still feel stuck in the same emotional patterns or conflicts.
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Yes!
DBT teaches you how to manage your emotions in real-time, communicate clearly, and set boundaries. If you find yourself people-pleasing, shutting down, or overreacting, DBT helps you shift those patterns.
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If you’re a human DBT can help you.
Ok, but really…
If you deal with spiraling thoughts, emotional overwhelm, anxiety, or feel disconnected in relationships, DBT can help.
You don’t need a diagnosis or crisis, just the desire to feel more steady, present, and in control.
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Sessions are practical, personalized, and focused.
You’ll explore ways to stay calm and grounded in high-pressure situations, learn to communicate clearer and with boundaries that keep you safe, learn DBT skills to shift unhelpful patterns, and start practicing new ways to respond, without judgment or pressure.
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That’s common.
DBT is different because it gives you a clear structure and tools to use between sessions.
If talk therapy felt too abstract or didn’t lead to change, DBT might be the missing piece.
In fact DBT is one of the most effective treatments for when nothing else has worked.
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Some clients feel shifts in a few sessions.
More clarity, fewer spirals.
But deeper change takes time. You’ll likely see meaningful progress within 8–16 sessions, depending on your goals and consistency.
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Yes!
EleVolve offers secure online DBT therapy so you can do the work from anywhere. Virtual sessions are just as effective and offer more flexibility for your schedule and comfort.
Still have questions about how DBT can help YOU?
Let’s get you answers and get you started.
Currently accepting new clients for Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) sessions. In-person Therapy sessions available at 1200 High Ridge Rd, STE. 208 Stamford, CTTherapy Also Available In-Person By Appointment in: Greenwich, CT; Darien, CT; New Canaan, CT; Westport, CT; Fairfield, CTVirtual appointments available across NY, NJ, FL, and MA.