John Priestley qualified as a Jungian psychotherapist in 1995.
He is registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, The British Psychoanalytic Council and the International Association of Analytical Psychologists. He is a fellow of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.He completed training in Schema Therapy with Jeff Young, in New York, and is a Certified Advanced Schema Therapist and a registered Schema Therapy Trainer and Supervisor.He has a private practice in Balham, south London and sees adults and couples.
With over 30 years experience, I was initially trained as a family therapist and worked with teens and their families in settings to include foster care, wilderness therapy and psychiatric hospitals. My Masters Degree in Social Work is from the University of Denver, my undergraduate degree is in psychology from American University in Washington, D.C. I am an Advanced Certified Schema Therapist, and my passion is helping adults who were raised by narcissistic parents. My book “Ghost Mothers: Healing From the Pain of A Mother Who Wasn’t Really There” was published in October 2012. My specialty is all issues related to narcissism and those impacted by narcissistic relationships, in addition to helping adults transcend being poorly parented, and I’ve teamed up with a yoga teacher to offer Schema Yoga. In addition I have specialized training in clinical supervision, addictions and personality disorders.
Sherry Reasbeck, Ph.D. is a certified Schema Therapist. She is also a certified San Diego cognitive-behavioral therapist who has worked as a licensed marriage and family therapist and career counselor for over thirty years. Dr. Reasbeck specializes in schema therapy and cognitive-behavior therapy. She is also a certified yoga teacher (RYT 500) who combines schema therapy and CBT with mindfulness-based practices. In her private practice, Dr. Reasbeck treats a wide variety of clients and is adept at working with different cultural perspectives, views, and practices. Her areas of expertise include relationship counseling, addictions, motivation, and career issues. She facilitates training for therapists on depression, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety, and personality disorders. Dr. Reasbeck studied schema therapy with Dr. Jeff Young and Wendy Behary through the NJ-NYC Schema Therapy Institutes. Dr. Reasbeck also studied schema-focused group/consultation in Newport Beach, with Dr. Christine Padesky. She has been leading schema-focused groups and training for therapists for over ten years.
The Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center offers practical, goal-oriented therapy to help adults, teens and children make positive changes in their lives. We specialize in schema therapy and cognitive behavior therapy for chronic anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders as well as personality disorders. We stand out for our passion for helping our clients learn new skills to achieve their goals, our understanding and caring for our clients, and our relentless pursuit of advanced training and knowledge to deliver more effective therapy for our clients. All of our Staff Therapists receive weekly training in the best practices in CBT and Schema Therapy and have numerous advanced training programs and certifications under their belt. We aim to help our clients increase positive emotions, optimism and resilience while letting go of unhelpful thoughts, emotions and behaviors.Laura L.C. Johnson, MA, MBA, LMFT, LPCC, is the Founder and Center Director of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center with offices in the Silicon Valley (Saratoga, CA) and Sacramento Valley (Roseville, CA). Laura is one of the few therapists who is both an Advanced Certified Schema Therapist with the International Society of Schema Therapy and a Certified Cognitive Therapist with the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.As a lifelong learner, Laura has completed the NJ-NYC Schema Therapy Institute’s Advanced Certified Schema Therapy Program, the advanced CBT Extramural Program at the Beck Institute, the Intensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program at BehavioralTech and numerous certificate programs in anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Laura has two master’s degrees from Santa Clara University and Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami. In addition, Laura has a unique background as a psychotherapist with a Columbia MBA and hands-on senior management experience at Fortune 500 companies.For more information about us, please visit www.CognitiveBehaviorTherapyCenter.com.
I have been providing counseling for the last 20 years and my training continues to progress. I am currently working towards certification as a Schema Therapist. My areas of specialty include treating trauma, depression and anxiety in teens and adults. In addition to working from a schema orientation, I am also trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure Therapy and psychodynamic theories. My work experience includes providing brief individual and group counseling in inpatient psychiatric facilities to both adults and children and long- term psychotherapy in outpatient programs. I have been employed as a therapist at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco for the last 8 years and have been counseling clients in private practice since 2011.
