Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Specialty Clinic
Providing evidence-based treatments to adults and adolescents in california
Dr. Kendall Kohnle, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Specific Phobias, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Relationship-Based Approach
Dr. Kohnle’s approach to CBT is relationship-based. The therapeutic relationship is an integral component to successful treatment. Therefore, trust is built through honesty, empathy, and kindness throughout sessions. Dr. Kohnle creates a strong foundational relationship with clients and integrates cultural, diversity, interpersonal, and strengths-based factors to tailor treatment to each unique individual.
Evidence-Based Treatments
Dr. Kohnle has received advanced specialty training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (particularly Exposure and Response Prevention and Cognitive Processing Therapy). Dr. Kohnle has also received training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).
Treatments
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT identifies maladaptive thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and behaviors that are holding clients back from living the lives they wish for themselves. Through a process of awareness and challenging unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, clients regain control of their feelings and beliefs.
Exposure and Response Prevention
ERP challenges clients to approach their fears that are usually avoided or endured with high levels of distress in a safe and controlled environment. ERP is an incredibly effective treatment for OCD, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and Panic Disorder.
Cognitive Processing Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
CBT-based approach to processing thoughts, feelings, and memories relating to trauma. CPT allows clients to regain pieces of their lives and selves that trauma has taken from them.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Skills include tolerating distressing feelings, situations, and people, assertiveness, and emotion regulation skills.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Skills include mindfulness, identifying and moving toward values, and acceptance of self.
“Do the thing you fear the most, and it will be the certain death of it.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dr. Kohnle focuses on identifying what anxiety is trying to communicate to you and taking action to approach that which you have been avoiding. Treatment for anxiety allows you to experience intrusive anxious thoughts and reach a place of acceptance rather than remaining in a place of fear and frustration. This will allow you to continue or resume engaging in relationships and activities that add meaning and value to your life.
Anxiety does not prevent bad things from happening in the future, it simply robs us of the enjoyment of the present moment.
Don’t allow anxiety to keep holding you back from living your life, make a change and reach out today.
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