4 Ways Nature Can Help You Build Mental Strength

By Amy Morin

The great outdoors offers many opportunities to build mental muscle.

Not all muscle is built in the gym—especially when...

Posted on Aug 23rd 2018 at 10:47 pm

Techniques for helping kids regulate their emotions and avoid explosive behavior

By Caroline Miller

Many children have difficulty regulating their emotions. Tantrums, outbursts, whining, defiance,...

Posted on Jul 17th 2018 at 10:45 pm

How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body

BY GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Illustration by Anna Parini

Editors’ note: Be mindful that this article is from early 2016,...

Posted on Jul 15th 2018 at 2:06 am

How to Worry Less: Anxiety Relief 101

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By Andrew Shatté

So many of us are bogged down in stress and worry. In...

Posted on Jul 15th 2018 at 1:41 am

Self-Soothing: Calming the Amygdala and Reducing the Effects of Trauma

By Karyn Hall, PHD

One of the skills a young child must learn is to comfort...

Posted on Jul 15th 2018 at 1:28 am

The Problem of Comparing Yourself to Others

By Karyn Hall PhD

Amy’s just got a promotion, Jill is going to Europe for a month, and Larry just lost 20 pounds...

Posted on Jul 15th 2018 at 1:23 am

Understanding the Levels of Validation

By Karyn Hall, Ph.D

Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., from the treatment creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, identified six levels of validation and noted that she believes it is impossible to...

Posted on Jul 15th 2018 at 12:59 am

3 DBT Skills Everyone Can Benefit From

By Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Associate Editor

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a highly effective type of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), originally created to treat borderline personality disorder. Today, it’s...

Posted on Jul 8th 2018 at 9:29 pm

Self-Care Is Not An Indulgence. It's A Discipline.

Self-care requires the discipline to do the hard and boring things that are good for us. Photo by Bruno Nascimento on Unsplash.

Tami Forman Posted on May 9th 2018 at 10:53 pm

3 Easy Mindfulness Exercises to Regulate your Emotions

By Joan Swart Psy.D

Emotion regulation means that a person is able to respond in a socially appropriate way to external stimuli. Depending on the...

Posted on May 9th 2018 at 10:45 pm

Our Practice

Sasha Ginsburg and Erin Lotz were born and raised in Los Angeles. They met working together in 2010 as therapists at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, teaching Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and using it to treat patients struggling with many different diagnoses. After sometime, they discovered that was a huge gap in the field of Mental Health and they decided to launch a clinic in West Los Angeles dedicated to teaching DBT individually and in group settings.