CBT Therapists Near Santa Monica: Doctoral Psychologists in Brentwood

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When Managing It Stops Being Enough

You tried the books and the apps. You kept exercising and kept showing up to work. But the weeks have started to look alike: the same worry on the same drive, the same 3 a.m. wake-ups. That sameness is the real cost, and it compounds quietly. Not because anything dramatic happened, but because nothing changed. More discipline will not change it; treatment is a different tool, and a smaller step than it looks. Seeing a CBT therapist near Santa Monica starts with a fifteen-minute phone call.

CBT Therapy Near Santa Monica: Our Brentwood Office and Online

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Los Angeles serves Santa Monica from its Brentwood office at 11645 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1030, Los Angeles, CA 90025, with telehealth available throughout California. The office sits on Wilshire Boulevard in Brentwood, which borders Santa Monica directly. Sessions run there in person or by secure video, and both formats follow the same protocols with the same psychologists. You can alternate between them as your week requires. Scheduling works the same way in both formats: a consultation call first, then a matched psychologist and a standing weekly appointment time.

What Our CBT Psychologists Treat

The practice covers the full range of problems CBT addresses: anxiety and chronic worry, depression, OCD, panic, specific phobias, insomnia, ADHD, trauma, and anger. Every course of care starts with a clear assessment and a named plan.

Two examples make the approach concrete. If chronic worry is the problem, generalized anxiety treatment here follows a defined protocol that targets the worry process itself. If sleep has come apart, CBT-I, the structured method sleep medicine organizations recommend as a first-choice treatment for chronic insomnia, is described in full on our insomnia treatment page. The full list of what we treat is long, and the free consultation call is the fastest way to ask about your specific situation.

Free 15-minute consultation. No pressure to schedule.

How Structured CBT Works at This Practice

Care here runs on measurement-based care from session one. You complete brief standardized symptom measures at the start, repeat them as treatment proceeds, and review the results with your psychologist, so decisions about the plan rest on data. Assessment comes first, then a named protocol matched to your specific problem. Most CBT protocols are built to run a defined course of weekly sessions, and you will be told the expected structure before you commit to it.

Every clinician on the team holds a doctorate in psychology. Sessions are $250 to $350; we provide superbills, and many PPO plans reimburse 50 to 80 percent of the fee. Details are on our fees and insurance page, and our evidence standards follow the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies definitions of evidence-based practice.

The Case for Doctoral-Level Care

Two things distinguish this practice, and both answer a fair skepticism. First, every therapist here is a licensed doctoral-level psychologist trained in the research literature they practice from. When self-help and general talk therapy have already been tried, specialist training is a different variable to change. Second, treatment is structured and finite by design: you see the plan, the reasoning behind it, and the measures checking it, in plain language, from the first week.

If you have typed therapist near Santa Monica into a search bar recently, you have seen how long that list is. Three filters cut that list down, whoever you end up choosing: doctoral training, a named protocol for the specific problem, and progress that is actually measured. We built the practice to pass all three, and the consultation call is where you test that, including what happens in CBT session by session.

You handle things. Bringing in a specialist is another way of handling this one, once the usual tools have hit their limit.

Match with the right doctoral psychologist.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Los Angeles: The Facts

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Los Angeles is a group practice of 12 doctoral-level psychologists providing CBT, ACT, ERP, CBT-I, and related evidence-based behavioral therapies. Offices are located at 11645 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1030, Los Angeles, CA 90025 and 444 S. Marengo Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101. Telehealth is available anywhere in California. The practice is out-of-network with all insurance plans and provides superbills for PPO reimbursement. Phone: 888-813-9613.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a CBT therapist near Santa Monica?

Yes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Los Angeles operates an office at 11645 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1030, in Brentwood, which directly borders Santa Monica, staffed by 12 doctoral-level CBT psychologists. Telehealth is available across California, and you can use either format or alternate between the two.

How much does CBT cost in Santa Monica?

Sessions with our doctoral-level psychologists are $250 to $350. We are out-of-network with all plans; we provide superbills, and many PPO plans reimburse 50 to 80 percent of the fee after the deductible. The free 15-minute consultation includes help estimating what your specific plan is likely to cover.

Is online CBT as effective as meeting in person?

Yes, for most of the conditions we treat. Controlled research finds video-delivered CBT performs comparably to in-person care for many conditions, and our protocols translate directly to video. If your specific situation would be better served in person, your psychologist will say so directly.

What if I've already tried therapy and it didn't help?

Then the consultation call starts there. What the previous therapy actually involved matters, because open-ended supportive counseling and protocol-driven CBT are different treatments. Bring what worked and what did not; it sharpens the assessment and the plan we propose.

What happens in a first session?

Expect a structured assessment: the history of the problem, how it behaves now, what keeps it going, and baseline symptom measures. You leave with the psychologist's initial formulation and a proposed plan, including the protocol's expected structure and how progress will be tracked.

Start In the Next Fifteen Minutes

The first step is deliberately small: a free 15-minute phone call, no commitment beyond the call itself. Describe what is going on, and we will tell you plainly whether we are the right fit and which of our psychologists we would match you with. Book online or call 888-813-9613. Sessions in Brentwood or by video anywhere in California.

The hardest part is the first call. It takes just a few minutes.

Start with a no-obligation call.

Medically Reviewed by Albert Bonfil, PsyD