Claudia Lewis Psychotherapy, EMDR & Brainspotting

09/28/2025

09/10/2025

Struggling to create a meditation practice? Check out my new blog post on tips for developing a consistent meditation practice:

Maybe your therapist has been saying for some time now that a regular meditation practice would be helpful. Or maybe you had one, and then it slipped. Either way, it can be challenging going from a once-in-a-while-if-I-have-time-or-if-things-get-desperate approach to a consistent, satisfying practic

01/08/2025

Has life been feeling a bit stressful lately? The state of the world, thoughts of the future, stressors in your life - yikes! 😬 Feeling helpless in the face of anxiety, anger, or hopelessness - double yikes! 😣 Do you know that you can learn how to get relief whatever is happening in life? My new workbook offers more than 60 effective skills from diverse psychology modalities to effectively regulate your nervous system so you feel better. I teach clients these skills every day and can personally attest that with practice they work! ⭐️ Link to book in comments.

06/06/2023

At the start of lockdown I closed my old therapy office completely. Little did I know it would be more than 3 years before I returned to seeing clients in an office. Today I am excited to start seeing clients in person in a new space in Beverly Hills!

04/10/2021

https://www.healthline.com/health/mind-body/9-tips-for-meditating-when-youre-an-overthinker
I know it's not easy for many of us. Here are 9 tips for meditating when you're an over thinker.

If your mind goes a mile a minute, these meditation tips are for you.

10/04/2020

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200412-four-countries-with-a-tradition-of-kindness
“Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself.”

Acts of kindness have come to define the coronavirus pandemic, but in some nations, traditions of generosity and helping one another go back centuries.

02/14/2020

A Montreal researcher says he has found a way to take the emotional sting out a bad breakup and other traumas by "editing" memories using therapy and a beta blocker.

Clinical psychologist Alain Brunet has come up with an innovative treatment for "romantic betrayal".

01/11/2020

‘Living in wealth can become so psychologically imbalanced that we develop a scar tissue to protect ourselves from the pain of being around people that we want to help but really can’t. And, the most important predictor of health is whether someone feels imbedded in a loving community.’

According to Chris Ryan, the author of 'Civilized to Death: the price of progress', rich people have the tendency to distance themselves from people because of their wealth differential. Video by Sophia Ahmadi, animated by Anne Calandre

08/31/2019

Kids are learning about money whether they know it or not. “Parents need to make it intentional by paying attention to the conversations they’re having with their kids,” she says.

Summer camps that teach kids how to make money are booming. But is it all about getting rich?

03/07/2019

"I believe that whoever does this will be the happiest person in the world, besides being lucky in his life." Syrian man rescues animals, and children, despite the risks.

The cat man of Aleppo had to abandon his sanctuary soon after appearing in a BBC video in 2016. But now he has a new one, just a few miles away.

01/27/2019

Today I spoke at Evolution of Addiction 2019 conference here in Los Angeles with my colleagues Maria and Andrew. We talked about how Brainspotting regulates the nervous system, supporting our clients toward sustainable recovery.