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One in two of us is currently making a new year’s resolution. Physical wellness tops the list, with 32% of resolution makers resolving to live healthier lives in 2022. While the impulse is admirable, the outcomes are less so: fewer than one in ten of us will persevere and actually accomplish our goals. The scienceContinue Reading: Got New Year’s Resolution?

We human beings and our fragile island home face unprecedented challenges during this time of climate change, political upheaval and widespread suffering of so many living things. Psychotherapy that ignores this crisis is unlikely to produce lasting well being.Please join my conversation with three colleagues working to address this crisis in our clinical work, politicalContinue Reading: CBT & Planet Earth

I recently had the deep pleasure of chatting with my colleague and dear friend Leigh Harrington MD about the background of my new book. We talk about my childhood in California, the research I did while writing Tropic, and my hopes for the book now that it’s finding its way into the world. Please joinContinue Reading: Author Interview: My Tropic Of Cancer

Low-intensity CBT is a worldwide movement that for the last two decades has been training laypeople to deliver mental health care in their local communities – for pennies on the dollar that such care traditionally costs. Last week I had the pleasure of site visit to our LICBT program in California’s Pomona Valley. Training thereContinue Reading: ¡Su Doctora Está Dentro! (Your doctor is in!)

On May 26, 2021 North America’s first Low-Intensity CBT [LICBT] training program held its commencement ceremony in California’s Pomona Valley. Low-intensity CBT is a global movement aimed at increasing access to mental health care by means of training laypeople to deliver quality care for pennies on the dollar that such care usually costs. The programContinue Reading: Low-Intensity CBT Trainees Launch!