Clinic Director: Ajeng Puspitasari, PhD, LP, ABPP (she/her/hers)
The Process-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (PBT) Clinic is a specialty clinic that provides evidence-based psychotherapeutic assessment and intervention for adults with transdiagnostic mood and anxiety disorders. PBT is a growing approach in psychotherapy that assesses the core psychological processes maintaining disorders, such as behavioral inactivation, emotion dysregulation, unhelpful thinking patterns, difficulties focusing and staying in the present moment, and interpersonal ineffectiveness. These challenges, found in many mood and anxiety disorders, are targeted using evidence-based psychotherapeutic strategies drawn from various CBT-oriented protocols, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Exposure Therapy.
Individuals will learn skills such as mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, engaging in meaningful activities, and facing fears to pursue healthy, productive, and thriving lives. This approach also considers the individual’s environmental context, lived experiences, and intersectional identities that influence treatment and recovery. Therapy is guided by multicultural orientation, recovery-oriented, and trauma-informed approaches.
Therapy is conducted by graduate students in our Clinical Psychology PhD Program under the supervision of Dr. Ajeng Puspitasari.