About Foresteen
Dr. Foresteen Forbes uses a relationship-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and changes in life. She brings direct, practical care and more than two decades of clinical experience to each session.
Dr. Forbes is a California psychologist, CA Psychologist 21049, and speaks English. She trained first as a nurse, then earned her doctorate in psychology.
Early in her career she served as a Navy nurse during the Gulf War and later worked for many years in a state hospital setting.
How Foresteen works
That experience gave her extensive exposure to adults with histories of childhood trauma and complex mental health concerns. Her clinical work draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral methods along with psychodynamic and trauma-focused approaches. Sessions focus on understanding how relationships and past experiences shape feelings and behavior.
She works with people on issues such as relationship and parenting struggles, grief, eating concerns, anger, mood disorders, and coping with life transitions. Dr. Forbes aims to tailor conversations and treatment plans to each person.
She uses clear, direct language and practical strategies people can try between sessions. The emphasis is on building a trustworthy working relationship that supports change. Her broader focus includes adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, commitment and communication problems, fatherhood concerns, personality-related difficulties, and end-of-life counseling.
With 23 years of clinical experience, she applies that background to help people find more stable, manageable ways of coping.
Foresteen lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Foresteen works with
The areas below are the ones Foresteen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | CA Psychologist |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How attachment work and CBT translate to online therapy
Dr. Forbes uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape emotions and behavior. That approach focuses on building a steady working relationship in sessions and understanding patterns that repeat in close relationships. It is useful for relationship and parenting concerns as well as issues rooted in early caregiving.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with concrete exercises and practice. It often helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes because it gives clear strategies people can try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. She will work collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals, history, and comfort level, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging work well for short check-ins or ongoing written dialogue. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people keep continuity of care when meeting in person is difficult.
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