July 30, 2012

"The Stress Response: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Free You From Needless Anxiety" Guest: Christy Matta Stress affects everyone in different ways and can actually help some people become more productive and innovative. Christy Matta shares with Allen and co-host, Logan Clarke, how extreme stress often has a paralyzing effect and can lead to negative coping behaviors like anger, emotional overreactions, anxiety, and alcohol, drug, or food abuse. Matta's book, The Stress Response, offers a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program for coping with extreme stress in healthier ways. It invites readers to explore their personal stress reactions and practice these new methods of solving the everyday problems that trigger stress. ABOUT CHRISTY MATTA Christy Matta has worked in mental health for over twenty years as a clinician, trainer, and administrator, specializing in work with people who have emotion dysregulation and behavioral problems. She is trained in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and has provided training and clinical supervision to DBT programs, staff, and clinicians.