Christy Matta, M.A.

About

Christy is the clinical services training manager for Stanford’s Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing. Prior to coming to Stanford she worked in  community mental health developing, implementing and providing clinical supervision and direction for innovative programming for youth and adults at the local level in regions of the U.S. and Canada. She is the author of “The Stress Response: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Free You from Needless Anxiety, Worry, Anger, and Other Symptoms of Stress”  is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). As an instructor, Christy has taught Stress Less, Sleep Better and been a co-lecturer for Topics in Neurodiversity: Introduction and Advocacy. In her spare time, she loves reading, traveling (when possible), and always needs a creative outlet, which most recently is abstract, layered, acrylic painting.