Free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Consultation Clinic
SCCC Introduces a New Service to the Community

The Southern California Counseling Center launched a new free CBT clinic on June 6th, 2010. We treated 9 clients and many of our SCCC interns got a chance to put their CBT skills to work for the first time. We hope to have bigger numbers on the next clinic days which are Sunday, July 11, 2010 and Sunday August 1, 2010 from 2-6pm. Please visit our facebook page and request to “friend it.” It is under “Free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.”

The goal of the Free CBT clinic:

To introduce Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) treatment to the public via a free, individual CBT consultation. By offering the free consultation to the public, we hope to potentially initiate “mental health treatment” to those who may never have attempted to access treatment before due to lack of finances, lack of knowledge about the therapeutic process, or even fear of the process. It will be an opportunity for them to be introduced to a new kind of therapy and subsequent positive life-style change that they have never experienced before. We believe that all people should have the privilege of learning and integrating this type of skills-based therapy.

We also believe that these individuals will be intrigued enough by the CBT skills-based interventions that they may elect to seek CBT therapy in their community. Or better yet, they might seek it here at The Southern California Counseling Center (SCCC) where CBT trained interns and lay counselors will be available to them on a regular basis.

The free CBT consultation will consist of an individual session with a CBT trained counselor who will offer an introduction and brief education into what CBT is about, how it works and how this treatment helps people with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, relationship problems, grief and loss, etc.

We consider CBT to be one of the most humanistic types of psychotherapy because it focuses on an individual’s thinking instead of an individual’s character.

John Tsilimparis, MFT

John Tsilimparis, MFT

John Tsilimparis, MFT is Cognitive Behavioral therapist and a Southern California Counseling Center Alumnus who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders. He is a former staff therapist at Cedars-Sinai Hospital’s mental health center in Los Angeles as well as at Kaiser Permanente. He also works in the field of addiction as a drug and alcohol counselor and interventionist. He is also in private practice in Brentwood, CA.