If you are a clinician, graduate student, or a psychiatrist interested in learning or expanding your knowledge on empirically-supported treatments including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy feel free to contact us. We deliver workshops, in-service trainings, and presentations on a regular basis in the community and will be pleased to develop a curriculum that targets your clinical interests.

All our workshops have a didactic as well as an experiential component that allow participants to fully understand conceptually and pragmatically what, how, and when to introduce a particular clinical intervention.
More information: phone 925-956-4636 email ebbehaviortherapycenter@gmail.com

Upcoming workshops:

Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
Minneapolis, MN.
July, 2014.

Mind and Emotions: transdiagnostic processes in therapy.
In-service training
Kaiser Permanente Richmond Psychiatry Department.
May, 2013.

Mind and Emotions: transdiagnostic processes in therapy.
A review of what we learned so far.
Annual Conference
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
Chicago, March 27-30, 2014.

Mind and Emotions: transdiagnostic processes in therapy.
In-service training
Child and Adolescent Champions
Northern California Kaiser Permanente Psychiatry Departments
May, 2013.

Mind and Emotions: transdiagnostic processes in therapy.
Annual Conference
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
April 4-7, 2013.

Past workshops:

Values-based interventions
President’s Salon
Alameda County Psychological Association
More info: Cecelia Pena: ceceliapena@hotmail.com
November, 2012
Cognitive defusion
In-service training
Fundacion Foro
Argentina, South America
October, 2012
Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
Washington, DC
July, 2012.
Mind and Emotions: transdiagnostic processes in therapy.
In-service training
Kaiser Permanente Oakland
December, 2011.
CBT Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Continuing Education
John F. Kennedy University
Berkeley, Ca
February, 2012.
ACT Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Continuing Education
John F. Kennedy University
Pleasant Hill, Ca
May, 2012.

Below you will find a list of our favorite professional journals that we read periodically:

The Behavior Therapist
From the editor: “…A publication devoted to work by seasoned clinicians, researchers, and students alike, often featuring theoretical debates among pioneers of the field, tBT is an excellent educational tool and archive of the field’s evolution…”

Behavior Therapy
From the editor: “… A publication devoted to work by seasoned clinicians, researchers, and students alike, often featuring theoretical debates among pioneers of the field, BT is an excellent educational tool and archive of the field’s evolution. Received by all ABCT members (8 times a year), the Behavior Therapist is ABCT’s most popular publication.”

Behavior Research and Therapy
From the editor: “… encompasses all of what is commonly referred to as cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). The focus is on the following: theoretical and experimental analyses of psychopathological processes with direct implications for prevention and treatment; the development and evaluation of empirically-supported interventions; predictors, moderators and mechanisms of behaviour change; and dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments to general clinical practice…”

Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
From the editor: “… is a quarterly international journal that serves enduring resource for empirically informed methods of clinical practice. Its mission is to bridge the gap between published research and the actual clinical practice of cognitive behavior therapy…”

Cognitive Therapy and Research
From the editor: “Cognitive Therapy and Research publishes experimental studies; theoretical review; technical, and methodological articles; case studies; and brief reports. It is a broadly conceived interdisciplinary journal that stimulates and communicates research and theory on the role of cognitive processes in human adaptation and adjustment…”

Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
From the editor: “…The Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science is the official journal of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS)… We are particularly interested in papers emphasizing the study of core behavioral processes that are relevant to a broad range of human problems, and thus not limited to certain populations…”