It might cost more now that he's in private practice....but you might be able to talk him into seeing you on an as needed basis....starting with maybe once a month. That way you still have someone to talk things over with about issues that you are struggling with.

It's true that just because we learn skills, they don't do us any good unless we can put them into practice....which is why DBT is set up to be a 2 year group therapy. I love it where I am because we have a follow on group that we can go to when we need or want called "next step" so that we can talk about our issues on top of having our private Psychologist.....I actually only see her now about once a month & this summer it will be 2 months between appointments...but it's wonderful to have my psychologist to talk over issues that I don't want to dump on friends or weigh down their lives with.

We need a functional social network that we can practice what we learned also....but learning takes practice & corrections which takes running it by someone who knows what you are talking about.