I've been in DBT therapy for about 3 months now (when I say DBT I mean DBT lite, I have fortnightly therapist sessions and nothing else. This is all I can get in my area unfortunately). I'm having a lot of trouble actually committing to the therapy because from what I can see the entire method of DBT is just providing coping skills. Can anyone verify or disagree with this?

I think I have pretty good coping methods already, I'm very functional in my daily life and was only diagnosed with mild BPD/BPD-like symptoms. However I have terrible mood swings, I cry almost every day of the week and I relate strongly to the "emotional burns victim" analogy. The only reason that my doctor referred me to this therapist was because of my ongoing self-harm, which is the only thing that actually alleviates the pain for me instead of just helping me endure it. 

The reason I wanted to go to therapy was to get rid of these intense feelings, or at least just achieve some emotional stability. But my therapist refuses to talk to me about anything except the cutting unless I am completely clean between visits, and even then she'll only talk about other coping skills? I feel like she is taking away my escape mechanism and just telling me to have a cup of tea and just wait for the feelings to go away instead. I don't want coping strategies, I can just google that. Is DBT actually going to take away or deal with the pain or do I have a wrong expectation here?
