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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy: How Action Conquers Emotion
By Matthew Loeb “I don’t feel like it.” When stress overwhelms me, I withdraw. Usually a talkative Ted, I glance at my phone and mumble, “Not today,” as the phone buzzes. Unhealthy? Sure. Ingrained? You betcha! Insert DBT — Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Or, as I call it, Don’t Be Timid. ...
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What Loving Yourself Can Look Like
By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS Associate Editor There are many misconceptions about self-love. Some people assume that loving yourself is a cop-out or an excuse to do whatever you want—as in miss work just because, or spend money on some big purchase that’s going to set you back (i.e., spending money you ...
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How to Get Back on Track When You’ve Lost Your Motivation
By Tina Gilbertson, MA, LPC, Self-Esteem Topic Expert Contributor When your “get up and go” has “got up and left,” when there’s no more “pep” left in your step, sometimes the best thing you can do is just stop trying for a while. Moving forward feels great, but movement takes energy. When’s the ...
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11 Ways to Stay Productive During Times of Personal Crisis
By GoodTherapy.org Staff By nature, humans are emotional creatures. When things are going well, you are likely to experience positive emotions that often lead to increased motivationand productivity. However, in times of hardship or stress, it can be challenging to leave negative feelings at home and keep them from impacting your work. ...
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The Secret to Happiness and Well-Being
Author Lisa Friestone, Ph.d. Like love, happiness is often treated like a physical object we must find and snatch up. Yet, also like love, happiness is something we are more likely to cultivate within ourselves than stumble upon in our wanderings. As the Dalai Lama said, “Happiness is not something ...
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How to Tame Your Inner Critic
Author Lisa Firestone, Ph.D There are countless quotes, mantras and entire philosophies dedicated to telling us to find and follow our “inner voice.” This is a something I agree with wholeheartedly when it’s a matter of freeing ourselves from doubt and hurtful influences to discover who we really are. However, ...
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Willingness Versus Willfulness
by Jeannette Kennedy, M.Sc. Registered Psychologist We all struggle with situations, experiences, and emotions from time to time. Our goal is to ease, change, or simply get through, our situation, but paradoxically, at times, we negatively intensify our experience Willingness is responding to a situation in terms of what the situation requires (being effective); ...
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A 5-Minute Breathing Meditation To Cultivate Mindfulness
By Greater Good Science Center Reduce stress, anxiety, and negative emotions, cool yourself down when your temper flares, and sharpen your concentration skills. How do you cultivate mindfulness? One way is to meditate. A basic method is to focus your attention on your own breathing—a practice simply called “mindful breathing.” After ...
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Bedtime Mindfulness: A Gratitude Body Scan for Children
By Kellie Edwards “Mummy, can we do a different mindfulness practice tonight?” “Sure we can Darling, would you like to?” “uh-huh.” “OK, close your eyes, and settle down into your bed and take your attention down to your feet. “Feel from the inside where your feet are in the bed, ...
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The 3 Steps That Lead to Happiness
By Jake and Hannah Eagle Here are three steps we can take to create happiness, make our relationships easy, and eliminate anxiety in our lives. Psychotherapy attempts to address two of these steps—not always successfully—but it doesn’t address the third. By adding the third step, we change the entire game, ...
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