Jessica Pishney

Jessica Pishney, PsyD, LP, is Adult Skills Group Leader at the DBT Center of Long Beach. She uses CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Humanistic/Rogerian techniques, and DBT, and is a trained EMDR therapist working toward certification.

She has experience with children and adults and treats depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, and life transitions. She completed a 3-Day Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training with Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, through PESI.

Her non-judgmental, compassionate approach emphasizes creativity, spontaneity, and playfulness to support life-work balance and skills development. Her training in improvisational theater at Improv Boston, Huge Theater, and Brave New Workshop and a doctoral dissertation on an improvisational theatre skills training video inform her group work.