Lara Fielding

About Lara Fielding

ABOUT DR. FIELDING Lara Fielding is a Clinical Psychologist (CA PSY24351), specializing in the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. Her approach is research based, and aimed at optimizing clients’ stress resilience and effective coping. She has served as a Supervisor Psychologist at the UCLA Department of Psychology and an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology. Dr. Fielding has exhaustively studied the Evidence Supported Mindfulness-Based CBT treatments (DBT, ACT, MBSR, MBCT) and their application for problems with Emotion Dysregulation. From this study, she derived a set of therapist guidelines for evidence-based practice. Dr. Fielding’s work is further informed by her research experience at UCLA and Harvard. Her research there explored the relationship between health behavior and the psycho-physiological effects of stress on cognition and emotion. Dr. Fielding is intensively trained in DBT and extensively trained in ACT. ABOUT MINDFUL-MASTERY Mindful-Mastery is an integration of the common elements of the most empirically supported mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (MB-CBT). Because rigid adherence to a particular protocol is not always appropriate for a given client, the Common Elements approach has been increasingly studied. Such an approach allows clinicians some flexibility in implementation, while remaining tethered to the research base. Author of \'Mastering Adulthood: Go Beyond Adulting to Become an Emotional Grown-Up\' from @NewHarbinger. Available at https://amzn.to/2xM1p4a See video below!

Experience

1. Adjunct Professor

   Pepperdine University

   Mar 2014 — Present

   Dr. Fielding teaches Mindfulness: The Common Elements Approach to Providing Evidence Based Treatment to the 3rd year doctoral students. This is a highly experiential class, where students learn hands on interactive interventions to promote mindfulness and emotion regulation skills in their clients.