Services

Clinical

Individual therapy

couples Therapy

family therapy

Psychological Assessments

Consultations for Bariatric/Weight Loss Surgery

Professional

Industrial Organization Consults

Strategic Planning

Program Development

Telepsychology

At the discretion of the psychologist and when clinically appropriate, established patients may be provided care via videoconferencing.

Treatment Focus

Anxiety Disorders - Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Attacks, Social Phobia, Separation Anxiety
Depression
PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Eating Disorders
Self Esteem
Body image
Family and Relationship Problems
Gender Dysphoria
Gender Identity
Life Stressors: Work Pressure, Academic Pressure, Divorce, Grief and Loss, Parenting Conflicts and Dilemmas, Medical and Health Issues, Trauma (e.g., Physical or Sexual Abuse, Car Accident)

Our Therapeutic Approach

Behavioral

Founded on the belief that true change and movement towards goals is accomplished through action and that disorders are learned ways of behaving that are maladaptive. If we can learn to change our behavior, then our thoughts, feelings, and attitudes will also change. Common behavioral techniques include systematic desensitization (gradual exposure to an anxiety-provoking situation paired with relaxation), using reinforcements for desired behaviors, and aversion therapy to extinguish unwanted behaviors.

Cognitive

Therapy is based on the belief that faulty thinking patterns and belief systems cause psychological problems and that changing our thoughts improves our mental and emotional health and results in changes in behavior.

Family Systems

Therapy which looks at the entire family as a complex system having its own language, roles, rules, beliefs, needs, and patterns. Each family member plays a part in the system and family systems therapy helps an individual discover how their family operated, their role in the system, and how it affects them in their current family and in relationships outside the family.

Solutions-Focused

Solution-focused treatment begins from the observation that most psychological problems are present only intermittently. People with panic disorder obviously do not spend every minute of every day in a panic; even depression fluctuates in severity. Solution-focused therapy tries to help the patient notice when symptoms are diminished or absent and use this knowledge as a foundation for recovery. If a patient insists that the symptoms are constant and unrelieved, the therapist works with him or her to find exceptions and make the exceptions more frequent, predictable, and controllable. In other words, therapy builds on working solutions already available to the patient.