A Center for Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapies
A Center for Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapies
Welcome to CBT California
Our center is dedicated to bringing you cutting edge empirically sound treatments. Our professional clinical psychologists and psychotherapists provide cognitive behavioral treatments for:
We provide professional and caring treatment of the highest quality.
Our treatments include Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for the greater Los Angeles and Orange County Areas. With offices in Beverly Hills and Long Beach California, CBT California offices are convenient to the West Side, Beach towns, Downtown, Hollywood, South Bay, and Orange County.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy was developed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. at the University of Washington. DBT is focused on helping patients with problems regulating emotions. Typically, but not exclusively for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder, DBT has multiple clinical trials demonstrating its effectiveness. CBT California offers comprehensive DBT programs for adults. For more information about our DBT program, click here.
Cognitive Therapy (or cognitive behavioral therapy --CBT) was originally developed by Aaron T. Beck, M.D. a recent recipient of the prestigious Lasker Award in Medicine. First developed for depression, the premise of cognitive therapy is that our thoughts influence our mood and behavior. A simple but revolutionary idea. By changing our thoughts or our relationship to our thoughts, we can change behavior and emotions.
CBASP is the only therapy developed specifially for patients suffering from Chronic Depression. This treatment focuses on helping the patient break free of their overwhelming negative assumptions about the world and learn to get what they want, especially in the realm of close interpersonal relationships.
Acceptance and Commitment therapy is based on the premise that our thoughts, emotions and sensations do not need to rule our lives. Instead we can learn to base our actions on living a dignified human life based on what is most important to us. This newer treatment has shown promise with anxiety disorders, chronic pain, psychosis and schizophrenia as well as substance abuse, depression and medical illness management.
Dr. McFarr's and CBTC Staff Recent/Upcoming Speaking Engagements and Presentations:
Dr. McFarr "Dialectical Behavior Therapy" University of Southern California Department of Psychiatry. 11/2/11 & 11/16/11
Dr. Bonfil "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Basics." Harbor-UCLA 9/29/11
L. McFarr, JD Bedics, L. Jackson, R Higier and L. Benson "DBT Research Program - Harbor- UCLA" DBT Annual Strategic Planning Meeting, Seattle, WA 2011
Dr. Holler and Dr. Jackson "Advances in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy" 10/11-1/12. Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.
Dr. McFarr, Dr. Holler, Dr. Jackson, Dr. Bonfil and Dr Dicterow "Advances in Cognitive Therapy" Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Clinic. 9/11-6/12.
Dr. McFarr "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)" Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 9/23/11.
Dr. McFarr & Dr. Levander, "Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy" Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. 9/22/11
Dr. McFarr, Dr. Holler, & Dr. Jackson, "Dialectical Behavior Therapy" Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. 9/9/11, 9/13/11 & 9/16/11
Dr. McFarr "Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy" UCLA Department of Psychiatry. 8/30/11
Dr. McFarr "Dialectical Behavior Therapy in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder" Grand Rounds at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. 8/4/11
Dr. McFarr "Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy" UCLA Department of Psychiatry. 7/26/11
Dr. McFarr "Does My Relative Have Borderline Personality Disorder?" NAMI Health Conference. www.namiwestsidela.org. 5/22/11
Dr. Holler, "Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training"
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Center, CA. 5/11/11
Ulises Ramirez "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy"
UCLA School of Social Work. Spring Quarter, 2011.
Dr. Jackson, "Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD"
Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 5/2/11
Dr. Holler "CBASP- Treatment of Chronic Depression" American Psychiatric Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, HI. 5/20/11
Dr. McFarr "Introduction to CBASP" UCLA Department of Psychiatry. Los Angeles, CA 3/1/11
Dr. McFarr "Dialectical Behavior Therapy" UCLA Department of Psychiatry. Los Angeles, CA 4/5/11.
DuBose, A. P., Ritschel, L., Henriquez, S., Higier, R. G.,& Gorgorian, A. (2011, June). Factors influencing effectiveness of Dialectical Behavior Therapy across clinical settings. Symposium to be presented at the 7th International Congress of Psychotherapy. Istanbul, Turkey.
Henriquez, S., Farias, A., Ramirez, U., & McFarr, L.M. (2011, June)Cross Cultural Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): An Update on Acculturation; Treating Latinos with Borderline Personality Disorder with DBT and Culturally SensitiveInterventions.Poster to be presented at the 7th International Congress on Cognitive Psychotherapy, Istanbul,Turkey. Higier, R. G.,Benson, L. A., Testerman, L., Glenn, D., Baucom, K. J. W., & McFarr, L. M. (2011, June). Predictors of therapist burnout in DBT: The association between secondary targets and therapy-interfering behaviors of borderline individuals. Poster to be presented at the 7th International Congress on Cognitive Psychotherapy, Istanbul, Turkey.
Jackson, L. L., Chen, X., Mallam, S., Quezada, M., Revolorio, K., Shamas, R., Baucom, K. J. W., Bedics, J. D., & McFarr, L. M. (2011, June).Mechanisms of change in Dialectical Behavior Therapy.Poster session to be presented at the International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy Convention, Istanbul, Turkey.
Bedics, J.D., Baucom, K.J., Holler, R., Jackson, L.L., Mallam, S., & McFarr, L.M. "The psychometric properties of the Therapy-Interfering Behavior of the Patient Scale (TIB-P) in a clinical sample of individuals receiving dialectical behavior therapy" Poster submitted to ABCT annual conference, Toronto, Canada Nov 2011.
Jackson, L.L., Mallam,S., Baucom, K.J.W., Bedics, J.D., & McFarr, L.M. "Therapy Interfering Behaviors and the therapeutic outcomes of emotion regulation and patient-reported skills use in English and Spanish speaking individuals receiving services in a community-based DBT program." Poster submitted to ABCT annual conference, Toronto, Canada Nov 2011.
Mallam, S., Revolorio, K., Quezada, M., Baucom, K.J.W., Jackson, L.D.L., Bedics, J.D., & McFarr, L.M. "Identifying patterns in the trajectory of therapy-interfering behaviors in patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder." Poster submitted to APA annual conference, 2011.
Serving the Greater Los Angeles and Orange County Areas
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