Dr. Kronemyer
PSY29946
Thank you for considering me for your care. I specialize in using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to work with people who have issues with anxiety, moods, emotions, and obsessive thoughts, often inflected with personality considerations. I also frequently incorporate elements from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). I have several therapeutic objectives. One is to help you reframe your thinking about what you’re confronting – not only what it is, but also how you got there, why it’s distressful, and what it would be like to inhabit a different mental space. Another is to teach you some practical, real-world skills to replace ineffective coping strategies – to reformulate what it is that you’re doing (or not doing), in response to what you’re thinking. A third is to regain control over the feelings and emotions that surround this thinking-doing complex.
Prior to becoming a psychologist I had a long career in the entertainment business, so I’m familiar with the problems faced by creative and business people. I’m on the clinical faculty at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry. I also have an appointment there as a research scientist, where I’m working on some cool new brain stimulation technologies.
If you have an inquiring mind, are interested in “thinking about thinking,” are willing to practice outside of session, and are motivated to change, then we’ll have a fruitful basis for collaboration. We will row the boat forward, while bailing it out at the same time. To answer some of your other questions: I have a private office in a suite with some other UCLA faculty members. It’s handicap-accessible. I take Medicare with Part B. There’s a 20% copay ($28), unless you have Medicare Supplemental Insurance, in which case they’ll probably cover it. I also take Cigna insurance. If you’re private pay, my charge is $250 for a 50-minute session. You’ll be doing most of the talking at our initial visit, as I want to know what’s going on inside of your head, how you got to be where you’re at instead of somewhere else – the human mind is the most interesting thing in the world, and I want for both of us to cultivate an atmosphere of caring curiosity to figure out the best way to move forward.