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Overcome Binge Eating and Bulimia Nervosa

Do you have a binge eating problem or know someone who does?

For individuals seeking outpatient treatment for binge eating problems or bulimia, Turning Point Psychotherapy offers a 16 week recovery program.

Using the most advanced clinical research and application clients will learn to:

Overcome the urge to binge
Establish stable, healthy eating habits
Get control of eating behavior
Reduce the risk of relapse

With your commitment to this highly structured program, you may replace dysfunctional thinking and behavior with a skillful approach to health based eating. This is a hands on program and you can expect to benefit from the use of textbooks and homework throughout the course of treatment. Based On Science

If you are suffering with binge eating, chances are you have become perplexed and discouraged, torn by conflicting information and options. Rather than gaining an understanding of the mechanisms that keep an eating disorder in place, you may have resigned yourself to living with a problem that increasingly erodes your quality of life.

This program is organized to address two basic goals: To present the most current scientifically based facts about what creates and maintains a binge eating problem. Secondly, use the most well researched and tested clinical applications for effective treatment.

Applied With Heart

Christine Hassell, LMFT is licensed psychotherapist specializing in Cognitive Behavior Therapy and EMDR.

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At Your Service,

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Aptos Office Location

Meet Christine

Pricing

For more detailed information on ED programs please visit www.santacruzeatingdisordersclinic.com

After an initial assessment, if it is deemed that this program is appropriate for you, you will have the option to pay in full or to pay in installments. A 15% discount is given for payment in full.

Payment In Full: $2400

Initial assessement is not included in the cost of the program.

Call Now To Schedule An Appointment: 831-295-0268 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Insurance is no longer accepted.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Cognitive Behavior Therapy is a scientifically studied and applied form of psychotherapy that is effective in treating anxiety, panic attacks, depression, bipolar mood swings, ptsd and much much more.

CBT is characterized as depth-oriented and brief compared to most other forms of psychotherapy. It aims to identify the behaviors, emotional processes and patterns of thinking that are causing you pain, discomfort. It is hands on and collaborative; you join with your therapist in devising an appropriate treatment strategy tailored to you desired treatment goals and yes, you will have homework!

How is your overall quality of life? Are your relationships with others peaceful and satisfying? Do you sleep and eat well? Are you motivated to exercise? Do you engage in meaningful work? Do you have joy in your life? Do you communicate effectively? How do you deal with stress?

While childhood influences may have created many of the challenges you may be presently dealing with, CBT focuses on remedying them by teaching you to change what's happening now.

Learn more about CBT here.

My Mission

My mission is to help you thrive.

In so doing, I promise to:

Use the most effective, time efficient psychotherapy tools and practices targeted to your treatment goals.
Provide a safe, predictable environment for us within which to work together.
Demonstrate an empathetic, non-judgmental and caring response to your challenges.
Take advantage of additional resources and make appropriate referrals that will aid in a positive treatment outcome.
To actively engage you in the formulation of your treatment goals and devising a plan of action.

Meet Christine

Christine Hassell, MA, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist in Aptos, CA.

Education
BA American Studies
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MA Conseling Psychology
John F. Kennedy University 2000

Credentials
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #39288 California Board of Behavioral Sciences

Clinical Supervisor
Certified Level II EMDR Practitioner

Associations
California Association of Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Mission : to help you thrive.

In so doing, I promise to:

Use the most effective, time efficient psychotherapy tools and practices targeted to your treatment goals.
Provide a safe, predictable environment for us within which to work together.
Demonstrate an empathetic, non-judgmental and caring response to your challenges.
Take advantage of additional resources and make appropriate referrals that will aid in a positive treatment outcome.
Actively engage you in the formulation of your treatment goals and devising a plan of action.

At Your Service,

Christine Hassell, LMFT

831-295-0268

Individual Counselling Depression Santa Cruz

If you or someone you know is searching for individual counselling depression Santa Cruz, help is readily at hand. Reaching out for professional help is a wise decision even though it may not be your first instinct.

In order to help you along in the process, there are two more decisions I encourage you to make before you decide to get individual counseling:

1. Do a little research on the types of psychotherapeutic treatment options that are indicated for depression

2. Shop around for a therapist who you feel comfortable with and either works with the treatment modalities you found in your research or, can introduce you to a modality you weren't aware of and refer you to information sources for your own corroboration.

The relationship you develop with your counselor should not be underestimated. It will play a large role in your treatment outcome. I encourage you to find someone you feel you can speak openly and honestly with, is a good listener, AND actively employs therapeutic interventions to help you facilitate the change you need.

Effective therapy involves more than just talking and listening. It involves practicing new ways of thinking and new ways of dealing with your emotions. Counseling depression may involve several different philosophical approaches, treatment modalities and therapeutic interventions. There is no single remedy that applies as the best one for everybody. However, in the scientific and medical literature, cognitive behavior therapy is most popular and considered highly effective.

Individual counseling for depression can serve as an adjunct (additional) form of treatment or, as your primary therapeutic modality. It will compliment and possibly, even replace medication but, make sure you check in with your doctor on that as you progress in your treatment plan.

For more information on types of treatment modalities that indicated for depression visit these links: CBT EMDR

Cognitive Behavior Therapy Santa Cruz

There is plenty of good cognitive behavioral therapy in Santa Cruz. Those of us who live here are privileged in this way because across the nation, access is not so easy while the demand for cbt remains consistently high.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy is growing exponentially as a treatment of choice for a wide range of mental, emotional and behavioral health issues. Anxiety, depression, co-dependence, panic and trauma are just a few. Why? Because it is systematic, active versus passive, repetitive and collaborative. It can also be brief and in the long run cost you less to arrive at your desired treatment outcome.

When you go shopping for cognitive behavioral therapy in Santa Cruz, I suggest you ask to what extent the therapist uses cbt in his or her practice. Some therapists might "inform" a more generalized approach with the principles of cbt but don't use it in a structured way involving in-session worksheets and homework. Other therapists may strictly limit their therapeutic techniques to those which are based in cbt. This might unnecessarily limit your options.

With the exception of being too much of a generalist, there is no harm in having more tools in ones belt to expand the possibilities for therapeutic intervention. A treatment modality that is compatible with cbt, yet distinctly different, like EMDR or hypnotherapy or NLP can add depth and synergy to your treatment experience. Simply put, you might get more bang for your buck.

Santa Cruz LMFT

If you're looking for a Santa Cruz LMFT you won't have to look far. There are literally hundreds of Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists in Santa Cruz County. LMFT's practice psychotherapy with a special emphasis on helping clients learn skills that improve the quality of their relationships with others.

Relationships can be affected by many different types of psychological, emotional and behavioral factors. This is why Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists have special expertise in areas that are directly related to mood problems, addictions, personality disorders, cognitive problems and somatic issues meaning, problems that are "held in the body".

If you are shopping around for an lmft in Santa Cruz, I encourage you to make a few lists:

List of qualities that you desire in a therapist
List of treatment goals you would like to pursue
List of treatment modalities you would like to experience (base this on your own research)
List of attributes you want in an office location
Then, email or call a potential psychotherapist you might like to work with and ask as many questions as she or he will give you time for.

Remember that one of the greatest determinants of success in psychotherapy will come down to the quality of your relationship to your therapist. If you don't feel completely safe to be honest and vulnerable, you may want to keep shopping around.