Jenny Taitz

Jenny Taitz is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, founder of LA CBT DBT, and Assistant Clinical Professor in UCLA’s Department of Psychiatry. She is known for evidence-based work in CBT, DBT, ACT, anxiety management, and stress-reduction strategies, including her book “Stress Resets” and her TEDNext 2025 talk on quick stress resets.

Small Stress Resets Can Stop One Bad Moment From Snowballing

In a TED talk, psychologist Jenny Taitz argues that stress becomes damaging less through the initial trigger than through the thoughts, bodily reactions and reflexive actions that follow it. She makes the case for “stress resets”: small, practiced interventions that interrupt rumination, physical tension and counterproductive urges before one stressful moment spreads into the next. The aim, she says, is not to eliminate hardship but to recover enough agency to choose the next useful action.

TEDMay 11, 20267 min read