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INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY

CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, ADULTS

CHILDHOOD TO GERIATRICS

. Develop increased interpersonal awareness through a one to one confidential psychotherapeutic relationship.
. Explore and clarify internal emotions, attitudes, thoughts, values, and goals.
. Gain deeper insight into personality dynamics and functioning.
. Resolve Intrapersonal and Interpersonal relationship conflicts.
. Short term and long term personal growth Psychotherapy.

COUPLES THERAPY
. Pre-Marital, Marital, and Post Marital Counseling
. Understand Adult development changes that occur naturally in healthy long-term relationships.
. Identify and change ineffective communication patterns.. Identify conscious and unconscious conflicts that distress the relationship.
. Learn to develop pro-social interactive skills that strengthen and deepen the marital bond.
. Gain insight into personality and temperament of self and mate to facilitate deeper and stronger emotional intimacy.
. Develop greater sexual intimacy and sexual awareness of your mate for a more gratifying relationship.
. Relationship Assessment to evaluate interpersonal, intrapersonal conflict, interactions, dynamics, and strengths within the relationship. Move toward a flourishing conjoint relationship.

FAMILY COUNSELING
. Identify and change ineffective communication skills
. Develop and enhance effective parenting skills.
. Set and maintain personal and generational boundaries.
. Develop effective communication skills between family members.
. Integrate Blended families
. Resolve Parent-child conflicts.

COMMON TREATMENT CONCERNS
. Depression
. Anxiety
. Adult, Adolescent and Childhood; Attention Deficit Disorder/ Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders and related concerns
. Relationship distress
. Family conflict
. Alcohol/ substance abuse
. Eating disorders

DEPRESSION
. Evaluation and treatment of depression including medication referral when appropriate
. Understand the impact of the depression and its effect on overall personality functioning, and its impact on others
. Gain insight into nature, type, and function of depression and make changes to impact a more satisfying adjustment in everyday life.
. Develop pro-social self-expression, self-activating, self-assertive behavior that are internally gratifying and externally effective.
. Replace languishing life perspective with flourishing perspective behaviors

ANXIETY
. Evaluation of the physical, behavioral, emotional relationship, and attitudinal indicators of various stress disorders including, but not limited to, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia and Acute Stress Disorder.
. Learn tension reduction skills such as deep breathing exercises, relaxation training, visualization techniques, systematic desensitization and autogenic instruction.

ATTENTION -DEFICIT DISORDER
. Attention- Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Assessment and treatment of Childhood, Adolescent, or Adult ADHD.
. Provide emotional, behavioral, cognitive and family intervention. Medication referral when appropriate.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE
. Evaluation and treatment of specific individuals and poly-substance abuse including, but not limited to, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, hallucinogenics, opiods, ecstasy, and other club drugs.
. Work through underlying behavioral concerns that contributed to the substance abuse. Arrest the addictive process.
. Use of hospitalization, community services and multi-disciplinary intervention when indicated.

EATING DISORDERS
. Understand dynamic and behavioral elements that have important roles in the onset, severity, exacerbation and maintenance of the maladaptive eating patterns including, but not limited to, Anorexia, Bulimia Bulimarexia, and Compulsive Overeating.
. Develop alternate healthy eating behavior patterns and more satisfying personal relationships.
. Develop positive body image and self esteem.


PSYCHOLOGICAL AND FORENSIC EVALUATIONS

. Psychoeducational Evaluations
. Intelligence Testing
. Personality Assessment
. Medical-Legal Evaluations
. Workers Compensation Evaluation and Treatment
. Disability Evaluations
. Competency Evaluations

. In depth psychological evaluation of intelligence, personality, emotional, and social functioning for a variety of purposes.
. Intelligence Testing for educational placement including learning disabilities, career guidance, professional development, and personal exploration.
. Personality Assessment Inventories using varied Objectives and Projective Techniques.