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.
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 bipolar disorder, eating disorders and depression. DBT teaches clients four sets of behavioral skills: mindfulness; distress ...
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5 Things That Help a Child with High Sensitivity and Anxiety
By Grace Malonai, PH.D. LPCC., Parenting Topic Expert Contributor Anxiety is a surprisingly common problem in children. If your child has sensory processing issues or sensory hypersensitivity, you may have already witnessed how these can bring about or intensify anxiety. These sensory issues aren’t always limited to one type of sensory input. Hypersensitivity ...
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Well-Being Is a Skill: A Cheat Sheet for Daily Practice
Lara Fielding Clinical psychologist, emphasizing the promotion of stress resilience and emotion regulation through mindfulness skills training. Well-Being is a Practice FACT: Emotional well-being is NOT the human default mode. We may stumble upon moments of equilibrium when there are few or no challenges in the environment. But, most of the ...
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Quotes to Inspire Mindful Living
Mindfulness is the simple yet complex act of being present in the moment. It is paying attention, on purpose. Mindfulness might mean noticing the swirl of milk that rises in a freshly brewed cup of coffee or the touch of a breeze on the back of your neck. When mindful, ...
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Why Mindfulness Alone Isn’t Enough for Growth
By Manuel A.Manotas, Psy.D, MIndfulness-Based Approaches/Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor As we develop in the practice of mindfulness, our capacity to be with our experience increases, and our relationship with ourselves softens and becomes sweeter. Being with our experience in a direct way—with a nonjudgmental attitude of curiosity—is at the ...
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The Compassionate Replacement of Painful Thoughts
By Nlampert, 2014 Keep Your Practice on the Path If you are a person who has regular, repeated destructive thoughts, thoughts of self-judgment, criticism, shame, or unworthiness, work with this training for a week or, even better, for a month. First, become more carefully aware of the content and rhythm ...
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What to Do When the Going Gets Rough
BY PEMA CHÖDRÖN Pema Chödrön on four ways to hold our minds steady and hearts open when facing difficult people or circumstances The most straightforward advice on awakening enlightened mind is this: practice not causing harm to anyone—yourself or others—and every day, do what you can to be helpful. If we ...
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Mindfulness study to track effect of meditation on 7,000 teenagers
Photograph: Vladimir Serov/Blend Images/Corbis Psychologists and neuroscientists from Oxford University and University College London plan unprecedented trial of how mindfulness affects mental health. Seven thousand teenagers wrestling with the churning emotions of adolescence, exam stress and peer pressure are to take part in an unprecedented trial of the effect of ...
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Everything Is Awful and I’m Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up
Posted on June 29, 2015 By prideinmadness When we reach the point in our lives when we have given up things are usually pretty bad. I know for myself, I became impulsive, was engaging in risky behaviours and just stopped caring. When I found this list of questions today it ...
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Learning to Accept Our Emotions: Lessons from Disney’s ‘Inside Out’
By Jennifer Wolkin, Ph.D I rrecently had the opportunity to see Disney Pixar’s latest animated feature, “Inside Out.” I didn’t need much prompting: it’s a movie about feelings, and I’m a psychologist. It did not disappoint. Here’s a quick synopsis of the film’s premise (spoiler alert): An 11-year-old girl named Riley ...
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