Dr. Sean Ransom, founder of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of New Orleans, trained in CBT at the University of South Florida, a member institution of the Academy of Clinical Psychological Sciences, where he received his doctorate. He received additional training with the founders of CBT at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research.
Dr. Ransom’s doctoral research was performed at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the nation’s top cancer hospitals, where he studied the positive personal changes claimed by people dealing with breast and prostate cancer. After completing a clinical internship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Dr. Ransom was appointed in 2006 to the faculty of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Brigham Young University’s Hawaii campus. In 2009, Dr. Ransom began serving as clinical faculty member in the Tulane University Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and led the Patricia Trost Friedler Center for Psychosocial Oncology. Through his affiliation with Tulane, Dr. Ransom continues to lecture and to provide service to psychiatry residents and medical students.
Dr. Ransom has applied behavioral and cognitive-behavioral approaches to diverse sets of problems such as medical illness, relationship difficulties, mood problems, spiritual concerns, stress and anxiety. He has been trained in mindfulness-based therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, as well as Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Dr. Ransom has been a member of the Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis, the nation’s premier hypnotherapy research association, and is currently a member of the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. He is licensed as a clinical psychologist in Louisiana and Hawaii, where he also founded and continues to help lead the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of Hawaii.
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