Be more present more often

Anxiety & Depression Therapy

Mindfulness Cognitive Therapy in Long Beach and telehealth all over California

You’re tired of feeling like this…

  • Being alone with your thoughts and feelings is really hard and overwhelming

  • You know you’re feeling anxious, sad, or angry, but thinking about it or talking to loved ones about it doesn’t seem to help

  • You feel trapped by the inner critic

  • It feels a lot easier to offer compassion to others but when it comes to yourself it’s much harder

  • Your mind feels like a frenemy

And want to…

  • Feel more at peace being alone with your thoughts and big emotions

  • Trust yourself more and understand what and why you feel the way you do

  • Be able to express your feelings, wants, and needs both to yourself and to others in a way that feels both authentic and helpful

  • Bring gentleness and wisdom to the inner critic’s shame, guilt, and doubt

  • Offer yourself the same compassion you find it easier to offer others

  • Feel like an honest and supportive friend to yourself

How cognitive-mindfulness therapy for anxiety and depression can help you

  • Have a space to learn and practice tools to cultivate a more focused and gentle mind

  • Cultivate a closer connection with your body to better understand what your body and emotions are trying to telling you

  • Learn practices to sit with difficult emotions and thoughts

  • Become more aware of the underlying beliefs and narratives that influence your life and cultivate a more supportive, gentle, and honest vantage point

  • Shift your inner voice from a critic to a supportive friend who understands you and cares about your growth

  • Build a tool box that works for you unique brain

  • Cultivate positive emotions like compassion, gratitude, and empathy

  • Learn some of the neuroscience behind why this occurs

Methods

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • most commonly recommended therapy approach for anxiety and depression

  • helps us challenge unhelpful internalized messages about ourselves (i.e. “I’m not good enough”)

  • helps us slow down with thoughts, evaluate them, and find new ways to move forward that feel more accurate and helpful

Mindfulness

  • helps improve focus, concentration, emotional regulation, and compassion for self and others

  • helps increase non-judgmental awareness of how our brains work and what our bodies are trying to tell us

Somatic Work

  • learn how to and practice being in your body to better understand your body’s cues

  • learn to more deeply understand what overwhelm, stuckness, or avoidance are telling us about what we need to move forward

  • learn to offer ourselves the support we need

Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don't belong. You will always find it because you've made that your mission. Stop scouring people's faces for evidence that you're not enough. You will always find it because you've made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don't negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially our own. No one belongs here more than you.

- Brené Brown