The Berkeley Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Clinic is dedicated to providing effective psychological treatments to underserved communities, and delivering robust training on evidence-based therapies. The training curriculum is based on cutting-edge research in transdiagnostic processes and coping mechanisms that perpetuate client's presenting problems and create suffering. Therefore, we teach students specific clinical interventions derived from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to target core psychological processes across multiple disorders and/or comorbid conditions.
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Services Offered
Practicum students will effectively learn to identify the client's source of psychological pain (primary pain) and any maladaptive coping response(s) that may be contributing to the client's suffering to determine the most effective and clinically indicated intervention to target that specific coping response (secondary pain); thus, we do not provide manualized CBT individual therapy. We provide therapy that directly targets the coping responses that fuel a specific client's presenting problems.
Fees and Payment
The Berkeley CBT Clinic offers low fee, sliding scale services to adults and adolescents of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. The first floor of the building is accessible by wheelchair. Due to the specialized nature of treatment required, the CBT Clinic is unable to offer services to those with psychotic disorders, unmedicated or unstable bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and substance use dependence.
Services Offered To: Adults Teens Children
Payment: Sliding Scale
Online Counseling: Yes
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.