Morgane Monjauze
DBT SKILLS TRAINER
Clinical Expertise
Morgane Monjauze is a skills trainer at the Youth and Family Institute where she provides supervised direct patient care in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) services to help improve the lives of children and youth with emotional dysregulation and developing psychopathology. She enjoys teaching, modeling and reinforcing skills for emotional resilience to stress and hard life events.Education
Pitzer College, BA (Psychology)
Stanford University, PhyD in progress (expected graduation: 2030)
Training
Morgane has trained as an intern completing triages for Pomona Unified School District, a mental health specialist working at McLean’s residential adolescent DBT program (3East), an educator specialist teaching DBT skill groups to adolescents in residential care, and a therapist (with direct supervision) providing free ERP services to clients willing to participate in research within Stanford’s OCD Research LabResearch
Morgane aims to better understand what contributes to effective emotion regulation, as well as the impact of self-invalidation (and self-validation) on adolescents with extreme emotional dysregulation. Specifically, her research has focused on emotion regulation abilities in college athletes, the impact of self-validation versus self-invalidation on borderline personality disorder symptom severity, and factors associated with self-invalidation as moderated by suicidal ideation upon admission to residential care. In conjunction with the Youth and Family Institute, Morgane works at Stanford’s OCD Research lab.
General Approach
Morgane focuses her approach on developing resilience and mindful awareness of emotion. She adopts a strengths based stance with an emphasis on self-compassion. Morgane values helping others find love for themselves and feel empowered to reach their goals. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and training for triathlons.Los Angeles Area Resources
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