Embodied Fantasy Therapy, Groups & Individual Treatment
Interpersonal psychodynamic therapy is helpful in its exploration of emergent meanings for the patient, attuned to cultural contexts; however, such work sometimes does not go far enough because insights are not embodied and practiced outside of the sessions. People get stuck in polarities (Linehan) or what in psychoanalysis is deemed internal conflict. There is the need for a synthesis or a healthy balance between opposing forces. We therefore offer evidence-based skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy that embody greater health, working well with psychodynamic treatment.
Mindfulness skills
Interpersonal effectiveness skills
Emotional Regulation Skills
Distress Tolerance Skills
While DBT was initially designed for people with BPD and acute suicidality, research shows that it works well with folks with a variety of issues involving addiction, emotional dysregulation, a need for mindfulness and interpersonal challenges.
Work with children, adolescents and their families:
Such skills can be helpful for younger people, as well as adults, sometimes in altered versions (DBT-C), especially the emotional regulation skills for preteens & adolescents.
Groups Offered
DBT Group for Adults
This group utilizes mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills (LInehan). It is also relational psychodynamic in its exploration within the context of group dynamics. This group will engage in brief meditations and yogic breathing, also focusing on the DBT skill worksheets and verbalization/practicing strategies for a healthier existence.
Time: Thursdays, 6:30-7:30pm
Location: 303 Fifth Avenue, Offices 1516-7, New York, NY, 10016
Please inquire if interested, capped at 10 participants with one facilitator.
DBT Creativity Group for Adolescents, 16 and Older
Clients explore what creativity means to them and do short meditations with yogic breathing. They also develop mindfulness skills, interpersonal effectiveness skills, emotional regulation skills and distress tolerance skills (Linehan), encouraged to experience, if possible, empathy for each other.
Time: Sundays, 2:00 -3:00 pm
Location: 303 Fifth Avenue, Office 1516-7, New York, NY , 10016
Please inquire if interested, capped at 10 participants with one facilitator.
Private Practice, individual Sessions
Dr. Dylan Marks, DSW, MA, MSW, LCSW
Dr. Marks offers individual psychotherapy in person and virtually at 303 Fifth Avenue, Office 1516-7, utilizing interpersonal psychoanalysis, DBT and mindfulness.
Dylan encourages the associative flow of consciousness, creating a holding environment where patients can feel safe speaking. Dylan works with a variety of mood, personality and cognitive disorders, e.g., depression, anxiety, disassociation (DID), PTSD, bipolarity, autism, and ADD or ADHD. Dylan helps patients to develop emergent, new thoughts and feelings about themselves and their environment and to further tolerate what they feel. There is also a focus on DBT skills that help patients to become less controlled by their emotions, even while utilizing them. Dylan is in network with Anthem (BCBS), Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare, Carelon/Beacon and Medicare with a sliding scale for out-of-pocket fees.
A native New Yorker, Dylan began clinical training 15 years ago (2011) and has been working full-time as a licensed psychotherapist for over 11 years (first with the LMSW and then with the LCSW). He has an MA in literature from the University of Chicago (2002), an MSW from NYU (2015) and a doctorate in clinical social work from NYU (DSW, 2022). He completed a psychoanalytic training program from the American Insituate of Psychoanalysis (2020) and has been more recently training at the NYU Postdoc Program in Psychoanalysis. He has also taught some graduate schools in clinical social work at NYU since 2021.Dylan has extensive and intensive training in working with kids and adolescents from the Karen Horney Clinic and AIP and in DBT and group work from NYU.