Kalamazoo Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, PLLC

01/02/2025

Join Larry Cohen, LICSW, A-CBT, for a seminar on the Core Components of Effective Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) Treatment!

Learn about:
* Behavioral experiments/exposures (in-session, video, VR, homework)
* Attention training/external mindfulness
* Cognitive restructuring
* Techniques to reduce rumination, worry, and avoidance

🧠 Gain practical skills to help clients overcome SAD. Don’t miss out!

To register : https://cbicenterforeducation.com/courses/social-anxiety-disorder-everything-we-need-to-know-but-are-afraid-to-ask-january-2025click

01/02/2025

So excited to be a part of this conference!

🎉 Registration is OPEN! 🎉
The National Social Anxiety Center (NSAC) presents:�“Social Anxiety Disorder: Everything We Need to Know but Are Afraid to Ask”

📅 When: Friday, January 31st, 2025
�💻 Where: Online – join from anywhere!�
✅ Earn 6 CE credits

🔍 Explore essential topics:
* Core components of effective treatment
* Schema therapy for social anxiety
* Co-morbid OCD
* Generations Z & Alpha applications
* S*x & intimacy
* Suicidality

Don’t miss out on this powerful, 6-hour event designed to equip you with expert tools to better support your clients.

🔗 Register now: https://cbicenterforeducation.com/courses/social-anxiety-disorder-everything-we-need-to-know-but-are-afraid-to-ask-january-2025

12/09/2024

I’m excited to be hosting an upcoming webinar focused on brief CBT interventions for managing stress and anxiety. During this session, Dr. Char Newton and I will share practical techniques you can incorporate into your practice, including psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring, relaxation, behavioral activation, and self-affirmation.

These tools can make a real difference in helping clients gain control over their emotions and navigate life’s challenges with greater resilience. I hope you’ll join us to explore how these evidence-based strategies can support both you and your clients in managing stress and anxiety more effectively. Attendees will also receive worksheets and information guides they can use immediately with clients. Below is a short information guide you can also use with your clients now. You can download it here.

Join us on Thursday, December 12 from 12pm to 1pm ET. Register at: https://brief-interventions.eventbrite.com

P.S. Our half-off sale is still active. Students also always receive a discount with the promo code STUDENT

Learn brief, evidence-based interventions you can implement to help clients regain a sense of balance and control during troubling times

10/30/2024

I'm conducting a study on social anxiety among members of Generation Z. If this describes you and you are interested in participating, please let me know by visiting https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BN62B3K

10/09/2024

I recently had the honor of chatting with Dr. Judith S. Beck, President of Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, about use of CBT with Black populations. You can read our conversation in the Psychiatric Times. The key takeaways are:

-CBT's cultural adaptations help Black clients manage racism's psychological impacts, such as internalized racism and negative core beliefs.

-Clinicians should engage in race discussions, using CBT strategies to address discomfort and enhance therapeutic relationships.

-Expanding treatment to include racial empowerment and pride mitigates racism's effects and fosters psychological well-being.

Most clinicians integrate some form of CBT into their clinical work, yet, CBT is often criticized for its perceived lack of cultural responsiveness. As a CBT clinician, it's been my mission to demonstrate that cultural responsiveness in CBT has much more to do with therapist characteristics and skill than the theory itself.

Fortunately, there are strategies we all, regardless of our cultural backgrounds, can use to enhance cultural sensitivity in CBT. For the most part, these strategies are simple. They consist of things like acknowledging and validating clients' experiences as racial beings, dealing with our own discomfort when having conversations about race, and integrating culturally-derived values and healing practices into therapy.

I hope the article sheds some light on these issues and I hope you enjoy it!

Learn more about how cognitive behavior therapy can be used as a healing tool in marginalized communities.

04/25/2024

Today we celebrate the 1 year anniversary of our book Black Lives Are Beautiful 🥳 🎉 🎂

This book was a labor of love to promote healing for ourselves and our community.

In this year, we've been active facilitating discussions and raising awareness on racial trauma and the need for culturally responsive healing, and we want to express our gratitude to all who've shared the book in their efforts to promote Black liberation and joy.

If you missed it last year, check out an interview we did on Fox17 Morning Mix where we talk about the book and our goals for writing it. https://www.fox17online.com/morning-mix/black-lives-are-beautiful-promotes-racial-identity-and-healing-from-trauma

You can also order a copy by visiting https://www.amazon.com/Black-Lives-Beautiful-Jane%C3%A9-Steele/dp/1032117427/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Two West Michigan doctors published a book that embodies their hearts and passions to transform and promote healing in the Black community called "Black Lives Are Beautiful."

02/23/2024

It can feel strange to think about our brain lying to us, but that is often what happens when we are dealing with social anxiety disorder ...

01/05/2024

Consider joining our research study

Positive racial identity is a significant factor in the mental health and well-being of Black Americans. We are researching ways Black Americans develop positive racial identity. If you or someone you know may be interested in participating in this research, please consider joining our study.

Participants of our research will be given 2 months to read the book, Black Lives are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal from Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity (Steele & Newton, 2023). A copy of the book will be provided to you. You will be asked to participate in a brief screening, a one-hour interview, and focus group at the completion of your reading. Individuals who identify as Black American and are ages 18 to 25 years are welcome to participate.

If you are interested in learning more about the study, contact Char Newton at char.whitehead@legacyhealthcenter.com or (248) 233-3994 or Glinda Rawls at glinda.rawls@wmich.edu or (269) 387-5108. To sign up for the study, please click the following link: https://wmich.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3PG0A18YFAnxgAS