The LGBTQ+ Mental Health Workbook: Find Emotional Resilience, Self-Love, and Queer Joy with Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Powerful and proven-effective skills to improve your mental health and cultivate resilience, self-love, and queer joy. If you identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or queer, and you are also struggling with a mental health issue such as trauma, depression, or anxiety, you are not alone. LGBTQ+ folks are at a greater risk for mental health challenges—often as a result of discrimination, harassment, violence, and other forms of bigotry. This workbook offers powerful and compassionate tools you can use to improve your well-being, find emotional balance, connect with a vibrant and joyful community, and thrive.Written by a queer therapist, this evidence-based workbook outlines the core skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—to improve your mental health and help you embrace who you are. You’ll learn to manage intense emotions, overcome fear and anxiety, and cultivate resilience and self-compassion. And finally, you’ll discover strategies to help you cope with stigma, challenge negative self-talk, and live a full and meaningful life as your authentic self.This empowering workbook will help through difficult thoughts and feelingsOvercome stigma, fear, and shameCultivate self-acceptance and build self-worthBuild or connect with a communityCelebrate who you are!