About Foresteen
Dr. Foresteen Forbes is a California psychologist with 23 years of clinical experience. She blends practical methods with a calm, steady manner to help people facing anxiety, depression, and relationship stress.
She began her professional path with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Biola University and served as a Navy nurse during the Gulf War. She later earned a doctorate in psychology from Azusa Pacific University and holds the credential CA Psychologist 21049.
Background and approach
Much of her clinical work was spent in a state hospital, where she focused on adults with histories of childhood trauma. That experience shaped how she approaches trauma, grief, and complex mood concerns like bipolar disorder and persistent depression. In sessions she uses a mix of approaches.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about trust and closeness. Psychodynamic perspectives look at patterns that repeat across relationships.
She also supports people with parenting and family stresses, issues around adoption and foster care, and problems such as hoarding, infidelity, or isolation. Her style is to tailor discussion and goals to each person’s situation. She helps people build strategies they can use between sessions.
Dr. Forbes works in California and communicates in English. She accepts international clients and offers a range of online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Forbes commonly combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of trust and closeness to improve relationships and reduce conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adapt the approach over time based on what is helpful. The plan will reflect the client’s needs, past experiences, and day-to-day realities.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more nuance is needed. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and messaging provide shorter check-ins or a way to share thoughts between sessions. These options help people access therapy despite busy schedules, travel, or differing comfort with technology.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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