Treatment Services
Over the years, people have come to
me for services for many different
reasons. It may be that you are feeling depressed or anxious or
that you are feeling a lot of stress in relation to your job.
Maybe your marriage is struggling and you feel resentment towards each
other. Perhaps your kids or teenagers are driving you crazy and
you need to figure out something that works.
People
come to a psychologist because they would like to learn a different way
of relating to their problems. It means that you are struggling and
that you know if you keep doing what you are doing, you will keep
getting what you are getting. My job is to teach people how to
relate to their problems differently so that a resolution is reached.
In part, therapy is about teaching clients how to relate to
people and the world so that they can enjoy life. Ultimately,
we all just want to have fun and enjoy our lives.
Therapy does not have to be about
"working through" issues or getting
lost in your past. Sometimes, it's better to learn how to "let
things go" and be part of your past. You can spend all of your
time talking about your problems and nothing changes. It
could be more fruitful to talk about how you would like your life to be
and then therapy can be about how to get there. However, there
are some instances when talking about your past, learning how you
developed into the person you are and expressing painful feelings can
be necessary and helpful.
I am not the kind of therapist that
sits back and lets you talk for
most of the session only to give you a few minutes of feedback at the
end. I get in there and interact with you for most of the
session. I primarily practice within a cognitive-behavioral
framework. Basically, this means that your thoughts create your
feeling and not the reverse. I teach people how to think and then
behave differently so that they will feel differently and have a
different experience of the world.