DBT House / DBH-A01-2
My House My Meaning — Practice worksheet
Choose a house, apartment, garden, or other personally meaningful structure and assign your own meanings to its spaces.
15 minutes · Worksheet · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Riley prefers a community courtyard to a detached house.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. A house can be an optional metaphor for organizing coping and support.
1. Choose a workable example
Use the fictional example below or an ordinary situation of your choosing. Keep identifying details out of shared copies.
2. Try the practice
Choose a house, apartment, garden, or other personally meaningful structure and assign your own meanings to its spaces.
3. Compare possibilities
Generate at least two interpretations or options. Mark what you know, what you are guessing, and what remains outside your control.
4. Decide together
What metaphor fits your experience without assuming everyone has safe housing? Choose one small action, a support request, or no action. Review the fit with your clinician when relevant.
Prompts for this resource
- My chosen or fictional situation, and what I know about it:
- My response to the practice task above:
- What metaphor fits your experience without assuming everyone has safe housing?
- An optional next step, support, adaptation, or reason to stop:
Conceptual background
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training: Fundamentals — Behavioral Tech Institute
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.