Jenny Taitz
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 30 Mar
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And so it's awesome because people can come in with social anxiety, OCD, major depression, and still get significantly better in a matter of weeks.
It works for anxiety and depression. Yeah. Anxiety disorders and depression.
Sure. So it's interesting. I went to graduate school all hyped up. I'm like, I can't believe you can get paid to talk to people. And like, there's a science to it and you could move the needle and people can get better. And then I did all these things to kind of test the waters to see before you go to grad school for six years, do you like this? And I started volunteering at this
suicide prevention center. And literally the first call I got there, someone was listening in to see how I feel to the questions. And I had done all sorts of training through them. And then the final step in the training is this test call. And this woman, she was 14 years old. She had already taken a bottle of pills and was sounding pretty loopy on the call.
And during our call, I'm trying to talk to her. Someone starts banging on the door. My supervisor who was listening on the call had called an ambulance and the girl was pissed.
Yeah. And it gave me this sense of I really wanted a career that not only saved lives, but made lives worth living. And I was super stoked. And then I went to NYU. It was really cool. I majored in psychology and social work. And doing the social work bachelor's allowed me to literally I would be wearing my college clothes and then grabbing my Bellevue ID.
I literally had the opportunity to be a therapist at Bellevue. Oh. Okay.
Bellevue at that time, I don't think it's currently there, but Bellevue had a floor in a men's homeless shelter for men who were substance abusing, struggling with mental illness and homeless. And so I got to do that. And between the Suicide Prevention Center, most people were happy for the help there and working with people that were really struggling with a lot of complex problems.
I was like, I want to be a psychologist. It's going to be amazing. And then I get to grad school. And I'm like, oh my God, these people are kind of weird. I don't want to be anything like these professors. These professors seemed super socially anxious. They didn't really have like a clear way to define when someone would be ready to graduate treatment or how many sessions it would take.
And so this is kind of a way of getting back to this question of the difference between psychoanalysis and CBT. And I think a lot of people misunderstand that CBT is just kind of playing whack-a-mole on a problem.
I see CBT as really helping someone both look in the rear view mirror. Can you look at what in your past has led to this moment, but also a huge premium on understanding your current mental habits and loops and understanding the process through which we struggle. And there's kind of a systematic way to measure change and there's a lot of skill building.
So the idea is that we have 400 emotions a day, 6,000 thoughts at least a day, 20,000 breaths a day. Do we have a structure in place To navigate those, I'm all for therapy, but I also don't know if a therapeutic relationship is the way that I see a person transforming their life.
And I think good CBT does both. My goal as a CBT therapist is I care about your time. I care about your money. Let's do this. Let's graduate. Let's keep in touch. Come visit me for spot treatments, but go live your best life.
I love that. That's my goal. That's great. But I also love thinking flexible. And I want to just say that there are so many psychoanalysts that are totally brilliant. And I have so much respect. We love all of them. So much respect for them.
We do love all of them.
Totally. I target a lot of what someone would want to work on in their marriage, one-on-one.
DBT is the second thing, so dialectical behavior therapy. What is it? It's a newer treatment that was developed in the 90s by Marsha Linehan, who is a professor emeritus at University of Washington. And she herself had struggled a great deal early in her life. She came out at the end of her career saying that she felt like she needed to share with her patients. It was actually insane.
She went to this hospital that she was hospitalized in herself and told her
story and the place was like windowless and depressing and horrible aggressive treatments when she was a patient there and the unit that she was on excuse me the chills talking about it is now a dbt unit which teaches mindfulness interpersonal effectiveness how to be more effective in relationships ask for what you want say no while maintaining self-respect and building relationships
emotion regulation, learning to kind of be able to dim down your emotions so they don't feel like they're on an on-off switch and be able to act independent of how you feel. So if you're like super mad, can you still be nice to your kid if that's in the service of your value? And then distress tolerance, how to survive a crisis without making things worse.
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