Specialties
Some of the most common reasons for seeking help from therapy include:
Emotional Distress/Depression/Anxiety
From time to time, everyone experiences emotional pain. But sometimes the distress is particularly severe or long-lasting and interferes with your ability to function in your daily life. If you are experiencing persistent sadness, grief, or anxiety, low self esteem and self worth, therapy can help relieve the symptoms, address the underlying causes of your distress, and provide you with help in restoring your emotional well-being.
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ADD/ADHD
While most people understand ADHD as a problem that causes young people to perform poorly at school, they are unaware that its impact goes far beyond academic failure. In addition to poor concentration and attention span, ADHD also causes low self esteem, depression and anger among its sufferers, both children and adults. Being unable to perform up to our capabilities at school, or at work, ADHD undermines our sense of confidence in ourselves. It frustrates and angers those around us. It causes conflict between parents and their affected children, and between spouses and family members. However, with appropriate treatment and clear strategies to deal with the direct symptoms of ADHD and its consequences, ADHD can be remediated. This allows the affected individuals to be successful in their endeavors and the surrounding family members to regain the happiness they previously enjoyed with their child or partner.
Relationship Issues - Couples/Families/Adolescents and Children
Your distress may come from difficulties in your relationship with a spouse, parent, child, co-worker or significant other. Managing these relationships and maintaining healthy, positive connections to the people around you is often a very difficult task. Therapy, either individual or together with these other significant individuals, can help you to understand the roots of the problem, and provide you with the insight and skills you need to improve your relationship.
Coping Mechanisms/Strategies
Sometimes emotional distress or relationship problems are associated with poor coping mechanisms, or a pattern of social interaction that perpetuates the problem and just triggers more distress and conflict. You experience problems that never seem to get resolved, arguments over the same types of issues, all with escalating tension. Therapy can enable you to break that repetitive cycle and acquire or strengthen skills that can benefit many of the most important areas of your life.
Eating Disorders
Increasingly many individuals, both female and male, are struggling with issues of weight, food intake, diets and poor body image. The impact of these problems can be both emotionally devastating and life threatening. While eating disorders manifest themselves as medical problems, and require treatment by a knowledgeable and caring physician, their causes are psychological. Psychotherapy is a primary treatment for eating disorder. Changing the 'mindset' of an individual afflicted with an eating disorders, creating effective coping strategies, building confidence and improving self image are all part of successful plan to heal both the mind and the body.
Loss
Experiencing the loss of someone who is important to you (through death or separation) can result in great emotional pain. At any time in our lives we may find ourselves suffering the effects of loss. These symptoms may be obvious and cathartic, or hidden and insidious. They may happen right at the onset of the loss or weeks, months and even years later. Therapy can help you deal with the impact of your loss on your ability to function well and live a happy life. It can allow you to eventually put your loss in perspective and move on with your life.
Personal Growth
Therapy can help you overcome obstacles that have kept you from reaching your goals and becoming the person you want to be. Many of us seek to deepen the meaning of our lives and enhance the quality of our relationships. Many of us want to be more effective in our careers. Although you might not have a clinical condition or symptoms, therapy can help you learn more about yourself, as well as others, and discover how you can live your life with deeper personal satisfaction.
Family Therapy
Family can influence our perceptions, our modes of interacting, and our styles of communicating. In Family therapy, the therapist applies therapeutic principles while engaging the participation of family members, individually and as a group. The process recognizes and reinforces constructive aspects of the family's relationships, while also allowing destructive elements and counter-productive interaction styles to be identified, acknowledged and changed. A family is considered to be any group of individuals who are committed to one another's well-being (usually for life).
Typical problems that families seek treatment for include:
- Parent-child conflict
- Parenting issues
- Communication Problems
- Relationship Enhancement
- Conflict Resolution Difficulties
- Life Cycle Issues
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Marital/Couples Therapy
Marital/couples therapy assists couples in working more effectively as a couple and in cultivating mutually acceptable problem-solving strategies. Being a successful couple means taking into consideration our partner's needs and desires, while at the same time not forgetting about own individual needs. Couples often lose sight of what it means to be a couple and get lost in constant battle with each other. Therapy can help couples break down unhealthy patterns of interacting and work on developing a health relationship. The therapist also helps the couple pay attention to the patterns which connect them as a means of appreciating the overall structure of their relationship. Any two individuals who are in a committed relationship can seek couples therapy.
Typical problems that couples seek treatment for include:
- Inability to compromise
- Tension and conflict
- Sexual difficulties
- Financial disputes
- Child rearing conflicts
- Extended family issues (e.g., dealing with in-laws)
Men / Male Therapy
Being a male in our society presents unique challenges and pressures that are often contradictory. In the community men are told to ‘tough it out’, ‘man up’. At home men are told that they are not sensitive enough, or that they’re too angry, emotionally distant or unfeeling. Men are often socialized to ignore or deny their feelings.
Men require special understanding of these issues when seeking, or being referred for, psychotherapy. My practice presents a comfortable environment in which to help adult men, young men and boys to manage the various parts of their lives in which they are struggling. I strive to help men to function well in all areas of life and to live more happily.
All ages and areas:
- Elder
- Adult
- Teen
- LGBT