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.
Eating Our “Mental” Fruits and Veggies
Post published by Robert Puff Ph.D in Meditation for Modern Life Organic fruits and vegetables are good for us, especially when they are eaten raw. This is what I eat and I have lots of energy. I feel good and it’s been just great for me. However, it hasn’t always been ...
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Why Change Is So Hard: The Power of Habit in the Human Brain
By Mona D. Fishbane, PhD, Interpersonal Neurobiology. Topic Expert Contributor Have you ever tried to shed an old, troublesome habit? Ever made a New Year’s resolution you couldn’t keep? If so, welcome to the human race. And welcome to your brain. We Are Creatures of Habit A few weeks ago, ...
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Putting Mindfulness to Work
By Tara Healey Office politics. Dictatorial bosses. Coworkers’ emotions bouncing up and down and sideways. Hi-tech tools that keep changing and updating. An uncertain economy and a volatile job market. Escalating levels of expectation. Loss of direction. Too much to do. Too little time. Not enough sleep. Whether you work ...
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How Can Mindfulness Help Shyness?
Author Steve Flowers explains how you can be shy and also be happy. How Can Mindfulness Help Shyness? Mindfulness is the awareness that grows from being present in the unfolding moments of our lives without judging or trying to change anything that we experience. It’s a friendly and curious awareness that ...
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Put the Power to Prevent Bullying in Your Hand
By Ingrid Donato, Chief, Mental Health Promorion Branch, Center for Mental Health Services, Substanc Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrion. Parents and caregivers are a child’s first and best teacher. Your child is listening and remembering your advice, even when it seems like he/she is not paying attention. In fact, ...
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Applying the ‘Love Languages’ to the Parent-Child Relationship
By Melissa Wright, MA, LPC, RPT, NCC, Adjusting to Change/Life Transitions Topic Expert Contributor When counseling parents and their children, I often refer to the “love languages”—an idea coined by Dr. Gary Chapman, a relationship counselor most well known for the Love Languages series of books. People express their love in ...
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Best of 2014: GoodTherapy.org’s Top 10 Bullying Resource Websites
A GoodTherapy.Org Announcement Whether it takes the form of teasing, threats, violence, or other acts, bullying is a significant issue in schools and communities around the world. In the United States alone, nearly a third of students report being bullied each school year, and most who are bullied never report it. ...
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Mindfulness Practice: Learning to Live in the Moment
By Cindy Ricardo, LMHC, CIRT, Mindfulness Based Approaches/Contemplative Approaches Are you moving through the day on autopilot? Do you sometimes feel as if life is passing you by? Do you find yourself reacting to situations, events, and people with anger and frustration? If you responded yes to any of these questions ...
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Stress: Five Simple Ways to Relax
By Debbie Devine, MS, LPC It contributes to illness. It’s the major factor in back pain. In fact, it makes ANY pain worse. And it’s not always caused by bad things – it can be related to celebrations, new jobs, holidays, new babies, and many other things we would never ...
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Enjoy the Little Things: 11 Ways to Find the Sacred in Everyday Life
By Molly Larkin “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ~Robert Brault One of the things I love about the Native American spiritual path is the focus on appreciating the simple things in life. Simple things are often hard ...
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