Professional Services
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is an exploration process that examines our motivations and the causes and effects of these concerns, and helps us better understand how we behave. Clients who seek psychotherapy typically decide to begin treatment because they have been unable to find a satisfying solution for a particular problem, have been unsuccessful in efforts to change a repetitive behavioral pattern and outcome, or because of a difficult life situation. It is the job of the psychotherapist, a trained, skilled and experienced professional in the field, to work with you through your issues and concerns by helping you to broaden your knowledge of the factors involved, and thereby empower you to have a better understanding of how your mind works.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis differs from psychotherapy mainly in its frequency of three to four sessions per week, rather than one or two session per week with psychotherapy. Like psychotherapy, psychoanalysis is a process of exploration of the mind aimed at easing suffering, but not limited to an isolated problem, situation, or crisis. By examining past and present aspects of your life through psychoanalysis, deeper self-understanding and acceptance will enable you to mature with a renewed sense of your true path in life. As the process of self-exploration continues, new discoveries, realizations and knowledge will allow you to become who you really are, resulting in the best “me” possible. Psychic wounds are healed; unconscious blocks that once prevented your emotional and personal growth are uncovered and overcome, and your full potential can be realized. By “going deeper” into yourself, you learn to find your life’s greater meaning, in order to live a rich and fulfilled life. In this sense, psychoanalysis is a kind of “inner work” comparable to a spiritual path, rather than psychological treatment for a circumscribed problem.
Couples Therapy
Couples seek treatment for a variety of reasons. These may include fighting, infidelity, ongoing conflict and repetitive maladaptive interpersonal relationship patterns, feelings of loneliness, neglect and anger, resentment toward each other, disconnect, and boredom in the relationship. Couples Therapy represents the chance for a new beginning without hostility and miscommunication, empowering both partners to improve their ability to create shared meaning, a purpose for togetherness, love, and positive concern for each other. No matter the differences—cultural, straight, gay, lesbian, transgender, interracial, interfaith, or inter-generational—each partner comes to a relationship with a unique history, upbringing, and ideology. Merging the different experiences, feelings, desires, philosophies, expectations, anxieties and dreams together, is one of the most difficult tasks we are faced with. Couples Therapy can help bridge the differences between partners and enable them to be enriched by each other, rather than depleted and suffocated. Thus, the goal of Couples Therapy is to increase mutual satisfaction, happiness and intimacy, as well as enhancing and enriching shared experiences and togetherness.
Supervision for Clinicians
I offer supervision sessions for mental health professionals at all levels. Clinicians who are interested in deepening their understanding of patients and wish to improve their clinical work, may schedule either a one-time consultation or weekly sessions. These sessions also could be valuable for obtaining a second opinion for a patient or clinical situation.