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Treatment Approach:
Offer psychodynamically-based psychotherapy in the
areas/topics listed below.
"Psychodynamically-based" means that, regardless of the
issues to be addressed, and regardless of the treatment modality
offered, my work with clients is based on an understanding of the role
of subconscious and unconscious processes that influence the person's
conscious attempts to face, and work on, the personal problems troubling
them. My approach takes into account the complex interaction of
different parts of the personality that are currently affecting the
person's concerns, difficulties, and/or symptoms.
This does not mean I necessarily favor longer term
treatment because the choice of modality depends on the client's goals
and priorities. Regardless of the focus of the treatment, clients are
helped to understand how they can apply what they have learned in
treatment to future problem-solving.
Offer some
early-morning and evening appointments as available.
Significant areas of experience and interest:
- Late adolescence, young adulthood, midlife
concerns
- High school and college mental health:
psychotherapy/counseling, consultation with
students, staff, faculty; treatment of social work
and psychology students
- Concerns around work inhibitions ("work block",
"dissertation block", and more generally the
meanings of procrastination and impasses); career
decisions
- Patterns of "toxic relationships" in family
and/or in choices of friends and partners
- Treatment of adolescents and divorcing adults;
single parents; special interest in turmoil of custody litigation
- Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- The psychology of adoption, with particular
reference to adopted people (adolescents and adults)
and birthparents
- Treatment of the performing artist
- The role of envy and jealousy and their
relationship to "low self-esteem"
- Concerns in the area of "body image" and gender
identity
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