Matthew Snyder, LMFT, C-DBT, CAMS II, serves as Clinical Director at Journey Hillside Tarzana, a residential and outpatient program in the Los Angeles area treating addiction, trauma, and co-occurring mental health conditions. He holds a BA in psychology and an MA in clinical psychology, and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. His clinical credentialing goes beyond a standard LMFT in two ways that shape what he can speak to publicly. He is Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT), which gives him a working register for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness as skills, not abstractions. He is also trained at Level II in the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS II), one of the few evidence-based fr...