Matt Casper, M.A. MFT; Matt is a licensed Psychotherapist with a private practice in Los Angeles, California (offices in Beverly Hills and Silver Lake). He graduated cum laude from Duke University where he studied personality psychology, comparative religion and film. While studying at Duke he spent 6 months in India researching and writing the paper, “In Search of The Sacred Center: Ritual, Art and Architecture as means towards experiencing the Self.” He received his master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from the California Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology and Psychoanalysis and has worked with a diverse population including individual adults, teens and children as well as with groups and couples. Matt has been involved with the Maple Counseling Center, a non-profit counseling clinic, as well as with the Julia-Ann Singer Therapeutic School where he worked with children who fall somewhere on the Autism spectrum and has served as a supervisor for teenagers at TEEN LINE, a hotline and website that provides teen-to-teen outreach for teenagers facing emotional challenges.
Matt is also the author of a series of books for children--"The Emotes!" These characters can be experienced through books, comics and therapeutic toys to help children learn to accept, express and manage their emotions in a fun and engaging way.
The Emotes Program can be experienced through a wide range of products including:
*Vinyl action figures
*Books
*Comics
*Plush Toys
*"How Are You Feeling Today?" Posters and Magnets
*Web Content: Short videos, games, activities and articles
"I feel that psychotherapy is a collaborative experience, and that we participate in a journey together. The therapeutic relationship provides opportunities to examine past and current relationships with others and with the Self."
"What I value most about therapy could be described with these concepts:
Authenticity. Empathy. Mindfulness."
"I believe that we as humans are very skilled at denying feelings that are scary or difficult. Problems occur when these repressed or denied feelings are projected out onto others or into destructive patterns of behavior and negative thought processes."
"I believe in the power of the “here and now.” By observing and reflecting upon what occurs within a session, we are able to examine and work through the deeper conflicts that occur in your life outside of therapy. By becoming mindful of the feelings and experiences that occur in the safe, contained space of the therapy room, light is shed upon deeply rooted impulses, losses, wants and needs that are often denied and locked in the shadows of the psyche."
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