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.
22 Mindfulness Exercises, Techniques & Activities For Adults (+ PDF’s)
By Courtney Ackerman Postive Psychology Program People who meditate are happier, healthier, and more successful than those who don’t. Those amazing benefits of practicing meditation and mindfulness make you want to try it yourself. Good chance you have already tried meditation or mindfulness before. Maybe you decided – after a few frustrating attempts – that you must ...
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3 Key Components to Building Your Healthy Self-Care Routine
By GoodTherapy.org Staff Establishing a good self-care routine can sort of be compared to putting on an oxygen mask when an airplane cabin loses pressure. “Put your own mask on first before assisting others,” the flight attendant warns us during the safety brief before departure. While it may seem selfish and counterintuitive ...
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Pets Can Help with Management of Mental Health Conditions
Contributed by Zawn Villines, GoodTherapy.org Correspondent Building on previous research showing the positive effects pet ownership can have on mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, a new study published in the journal BMC Psychiatrysuggests pets can improve people’s management of diagnosed mental health conditions. Pet Ownership as a Mental Health Self-Care Strategy The ...
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Free Yourself from Feeling Out of Control
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Tips for Parenting with a Mental Illness
By Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Parenting is a difficult job and a juggling act no matter what. It requires balancing your own needs with those of your child. It involves managing your time, having adequate resources and supporting your child. For parents coping with a mental illness, “these issues are amplified,” said Ryan ...
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Self-Criticism or Self-Compassion: Which Works Best?
By Michelle McQuaid Do you ever hear a little voice chattering away in your head that fills you with self-doubt? You know the one. Perhaps you’ve heard it saying: “You’re not good enough”, “You’re so lazy,” or even “You’re such an idiot.” It’s that voice of self-criticism that says things, ...
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Living in the Moment: What Mindfulness Is and Is Not
By Manuel A. Manotas, PsyD, Mindfulness-Based Approaches/Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor Let’s stop making mindfulness something other than what it is. Let’s stop making mindfulness the great cure-all. Let’s stop making mindfulness another gimmick to improve ourselves. Because it’s not. If we look clearly at the definition of mindfulness, we see that it is ...
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Emotional Overwhelm: How DBT’s Crisis Survival Skills Help
By Mallory Grimste, LCSW, GoodTherapy.org Topic Expert Have you ever felt like your emotions are so overwhelming they will never stabilize? Maybe you have an intense urge to return to unhealthy or risky behaviors to make yourself feel better. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)has a whole module that focuses on crisis survival skills. These are skills that help ...
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DBT Treatment Assumptions for Teens in Group Skills Training
By Mallory Grimste, LCSW, GoodTherapy.org Topic Expert Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based therapeutic model originally developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan. She found that traditional cognitive behavioral therapies did not always help people who experienced chronic suicidal ideation or symptoms of borderline personality. Since then, DBT has been found to be effective with several other groups of ...
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The Secret to Self-Awareness in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Contributed by Jeremy Schwartz, LCSW, Dialectical Behavior Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Have you ever found yourself in such an emotional storm that you didn’t feel in control of what you were doing? When we are at our most vulnerable, we are most likely to act in the way that emotions make us want to act. ...
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