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.
How to Worry Less: Anxiety Relief 101
VOLANTHEVIST VIA GETTY IMAGES By Andrew Shatté So many of us are bogged down in stress and worry. In fact, 80 percent of Americans report feeling stressed out almost every day. We stew over our finances, relationships, jobs, children, and health. And while it’s normal to worry a bit—we aren’t robots, after ...
Read More 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 himself when he is upset. One way he learns to do this is by being soothed by his parents or caregivers. Touch and holding are two ways caregivers comfort children. Gradually the child learns ...
Read More 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 and looks so fit he could be a trainer. When you look at what is happening in the lives of your friends, do you congratulate them and ...
Read More 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 overestimate the importance of validation. If you care about someone who is emotionally sensitive, validation is one of the most important and ...
Read More 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 used to treat a variety of conditions, such as bipolardisorder, eating disorders and depression. DBT teaches clients four sets of behavioral skills: mindfulness; distress tolerance; interpersonal effectiveness; and emotion regulation. But, whether you ...
Read More 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 , WOMEN@FORBES The way self-care is portrayed today is completely and utterly backward. First, self-care as a concept is almost exclusively aimed at women (generally wealthy white women who ...
Read More 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 situation, he or she has to be flexible enough to allow or avoid an instinctive reaction. A lack of emotion regulation often emerges in childhood ...
Read More Top 10 Ways to Regulate Emotions – Part One
By Laura Chang, M.A. LPC Emotion regulation skills allow us to effectively cope with our emotional reactions. While we cannot always maintain control over what we feel, we have total control over how we choose to respond to those feelings. The first step to gaining greater control over your emotions begins with ...
Read More How to Break the Bad Habits That Hold You Back in Life
By Szymon Pelechowicz " You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success if found in your daily routine.” ~John C. Maxwell We all have bad habits. The problem is that many of our habits are so deeply ingrained that we don’t even notice ...
Read More How to Be a Resilient Parent
Children learn more from what you do than what you say, so your resilience—the way they watch you approach adversity—affects theirs. Explore these mindful strategies for building awareness around challenging experiences. By Mark Bertin ...
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