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.
60-Second Relaxation Response
Contributed by Tammy Fletcher MA, IMF, CFT, Body-Mind Psychotherapy Topic Expert We see a number of people in our practice who struggle with feelings of anxiety. Working with mental and emotional responses to stress is helpful for these people. We also take time to learn about where the person feels his or her anxiety ...
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Love Your Body, Free Your Mind
By Elisha Goldstein and Stefanie Goldstein 11 ways to snap out of autopilot and get back in touch with your body. Often we get so caught up in planning and daydreaming and constructing stories that we forget we even have a body. What’s happening in our bodies is as here-and-now ...
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20 Questions to Connect with Yourself and Someone Else
By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS associate editor Yesterday, Brian and I spent four hours in Barnes & Noble. I’m not exaggerating. We had the best time. While there I picked up a new-to-me magazine called Flow, which is all about “celebrating creativity, imperfection and life’s little pleasures.” How sweet is that? In it ...
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3 Ways to Get Better at Dealing With Change
By Linda Grahm Illustrations by Brett King Between a stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. —Viktor Frankl How you respond to the issue…is the issue. —Frankie Perez When I ...
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Getting Kids Unhooked from Their Smartphones
By Mark Bertin Setting guidelines around kids' tech use starts with the habits and conscious choices of parents. Mark Bertin, MD, shares tips on how families can be mindful with their tech. Kids and screen time cause considerable parental angst these days—and for good reason. Research shows children spend on average seven hours a day ...
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10 Mindful Attitudes That Decrease Anxiety
By Bob Stahl By exerting more conscious control over our behaviors and attitudes, we learn to work with our intention, wise effort, and capacity to be kind to ourselves. Mindfulness is, in short, the practice of being aware of what’s happening or what you’re experiencing in the present moment. It’s being ...
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7 Steps to Declare Freedom From Energy-Zapping Thoughts (EZTs)
By Athena Staik, Ph.D. Thoughts are powerful shapers of our lives, period. They shape our relationships too, even our character. If our thoughts are limiting, however, they are also energy zapping. Do you have the reins of your thoughts? It’s no longer theory, it’s science. Our habitual “self talk” seems to form a meaning-laden ...
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Thank Goodness: Gratitude as a Tool for Healing
By Traci Stein, PhD, MPH, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Topic Expert Contributor Gratitude is associated with a number of mental health benefits. There appears to be variability with regard to how often one feels grateful, but experiencing gratitude can be profoundly, deeply healing. When we are grateful, we leave little room for resentment, anger, self-righteousness, ...
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21 Easy Ways to Create a Calm Mind (Without Meditating)
By Blake Powell “Learn to calm down the winds of your mind, and you will enjoy great inner peace.” ~Remez Sasson While juggling a full-time job and my writing, I found it easy to lose track of the days. Weekends ceased to exist and my life ebbed and flowed between ...
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