DBT Skills Games
Serious about skills. Less serious about ourselves.
This is a free resource developed and reviewed by DBT professionals. Some text and artwork were created with AI assistance. We aim for useful, accurate content—with humor and a little irreverence—but we won’t get everything right.
If you spot something inaccurate, inappropriate, or potentially harmful, please let us know. We do our best to review community feedback regularly and make corrections as we can. Your feedback helps us keep this useful, responsible, and a little ridiculous.
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A practice tool, not therapy
These games are a resource to support people in their therapy journey, practicing DBT skills alongside treatment. They aren’t therapy, a replacement for treatment, or crisis care.
If you’re in crisis
- Call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, US), or chat at 988lifeline.org.
- Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room if you or someone else is in immediate danger.
- If you’re in DBT, use your crisis plan or contact your therapist as your program allows.
- Outside the US, contact local emergency services or find a helpline at findahelpline.com.
Independent project
DBT Skills Games isn’t affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Marsha M. Linehan, the Behavioral Tech Institute (formerly the Linehan Institute) or Behavioral Tech, LLC, the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, or The Guilford Press.
Skills are described in our own words. References to the DBT Skills Training Manual and its handouts (© The Guilford Press) are citations, and the handouts aren’t reproduced here. Reviewers’ credentials are their own and don’t mean the site is certified by any board.