Christine Padesky PhD

Co-founder of the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Huntington Beach, California; Co-creator of Strengths-Based CBT; Co-author of Mind Over Mood and Collaborative Case Conceptualization.

Biography

Week 66 Video #4

Why It’s Crucial to Work with Core Beliefs in Pairs

Week 67 Video #3

Expanding the Continuum Between Negative and Positive Core Beliefs

Week 70 Video #2

The Seeds of Growth are in the Treatment

Week 71 Video #4

What Trauma Demands and the Meaning We Assign to It

Week 73 Video #4

Calming the Sensations of a Panic Attack

Week 75 Video #3

What People Get Wrong in Trying to Manage Anxiety

Week 78 Video #4

An Experiment in Developing the Assertive Defense of the Self

Week 80 Video #4

Are You Treating the Right Problem?

Week 88 Video #1

One Piece of Advice Given Three Different Ways

Week 91 Video #3

Three Strategies to Reframe Criticism

Week 99 Video #1

How a Focus on Skills Can Reduce Relapse into Depression

Week 102 Video #3

How to Quiet the Self-Criticism That Can Fuel Depression

Week 106 Video #4

How to Help Clients Develop a New Core Belief That Challenges the Inner Critic

Week 111 Video #4

Managing a Client’s Expectations for a First Session

Week 128 Video #3

How to Nudge Clients Away from Over-Analyzing Their Emotional

Week 157 – Working with the Powerful Internal Forces That Fuel Impostor Syndrome

Week 167 – Practical Resources for Helping Clients Manage a Fear of Rejection

Week 172 – How to Help Clients Connect to Meaning, Purpose, and Values

Week 179 – How to Integrate Experiential Exercises When Working with Self-Absorption

Week 185 – Exercises for Building Distress Tolerance Skills

Week 191 – Techniques to Help Clients Shift Their Shame Narrative

Week 197 – Strategies for Helping Clients Overcome Deficits in Social Skills

Week 199 – Rumination, Worry, and Problem-Solving

Week 207 – Practices and Skills to Help Clients Shift Out of Resentment

Week 209 – The Complicated Issue of Forgiveness

Week 211 – Cultural Considerations for Working with Please and Appease

Week 214 – Exercises and Skills for Empowering Pleasers and Appeasers

Week 221 – Strategies for and Clinical Examples of Working with Rigidity

Week 222 – Trust Examined

Week 226 – Trust-Building Exercises and Skills

Week 232 – Behavioral Approaches to Working with Despair

Week 237 – Strategies for Helping Clients Build Skills to Navigate Uncertainty

Week 244 – Approaches for Working with Clients Who Experience Marginalization

Week 270 – How to Help Clients Reframe Their Beliefs and Assumptions About Conflict

Week 276 – Helping Clients Understand What Drives Their Need to Control

Week 286 – Working with the Nuances of Helping Clients ‘Move On’ from Overwhelming Events

Week 287 – Common Mistakes in Working with Overwhelming Events (and How to Avoid Them)

Week 288 – How to Help Clients Shift an Entrenched Belief That They Are Unable to Change

Week 292 – Practical Exercises to Help Prepare Clients for Making a Change

Week 294 – Working with Clients Who Struggle with “Anxious Parenting”

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Shift Out of Persistent Feelings of Defectiveness (Week 318)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Shift Out of Persistent Feelings of Defectiveness (Week 319)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Shift Out of Persistent Feelings of Defectiveness (Week 320)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Navigate Rupture and Build Skills of Repair (Week 324)