DBT & Me

Dialectical Behavior Therapy was originally developed for borderline personality disorder, but it turns out the skills work remarkably well for depression too — and Kate Sherman and Michelle Henderson have spent 199 episodes proving exactly that. DBT & Me takes the four main DBT modules (mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness) and shows you how to actually use them when you are struggling, not just understand them in theory. The format alternates between deep skill breakdowns, listener Q&A sessions, and interviews with mental health authors and clinicians. Sherman and Henderson have an easy rapport that makes hour-long episodes on topics like radical acceptance or opposite action feel more like an honest conversation than a lecture. They have even gone back and re-recorded some of their earliest COVID-era episodes because the audio quality was not up to their current standards, which tells you something about how seriously they take the show. Both hosts are authors of DBT for Everyone, and that teaching instinct comes through in how they structure episodes. They will explain a skill, give real examples of when it works and when it falls flat, and then talk about their own experiences trying to practice what they preach. The podcast has 139 ratings and publishes twice a month. It is especially useful if you are currently in DBT therapy and want reinforcement between sessions, or if you have heard about DBT and want to understand what it actually looks like in daily life before committing to a full program.