I provide therapy for adults in New York struggling with anxiety, depression and ADHD.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is what most people think of when they hear talk therapy. This therapeutic approach focuses on exploring the interplay between unconscious processes and conscious thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It identifies unresolved unconscious issues affecting you currently. Techniques include dream analysis, interpreting symbols for hidden meanings; transference analysis, exploring feelings projected onto the therapist from past relationships; and resistance like understanding why a patient avoids certain topics. These will all contribute to you expanding your insight, your ability to observe yourself after treatment, and resolve deep-seated issues.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a commonly used psychotherapeutic approach designed to help individuals understand and alter negative thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to emotional stress and health issues. CBT was established and researched by Dr. Aaron Beck of the Beck Institute where I trained.
Mindfulness practices are teachings and techniques to bring your mind into the present moment. Negative thinking, spirals of thoughts, and anger about the past are all helped with grounding and connecting to the present. Observe the thoughts distressing you versus being swept away in the title wave of emotion they provoke.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is what most people think of when they hear talk therapy. It identifies unresolved unconscious issues effecting you currently. Making these connections brings expansive self-awareness.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a structured, time-limited psychotherapy that focuses on the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviors. CBT is a goal oriented therapy designed by Aaron Beck PsyD, founder of The Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. With CBT we can challenge negative beliefs and thought patterns that contribute to emotional distress and psychological issues.
Cognitive restructuring is one technique where clients learn to challenge their negative beliefs and reframe them in a more accurate way.
Behavioral Interventions are used to strengthen the pathway to the new goal. These are specific behaviors you and I decide on that will reinforce the positive changes and reduce unhealthy behaviors.
Skill development are problem solving strategies that effectively assist you in managing uncomfortable feelings as they arise. Because we are reducing your dependence on unhealthy behaviors we need ways to sit with or pass thru the uncomfortable feelings that are safe and easier.
Mindfulness practices and mindfulness- based therapy are teachings and techniques to bring your mind into the present moment. Negative thinking, spirals of thoughts, and anger about the past are all helped with grounding and connecting to the present. Observe the thoughts distressing you versus being swept away in the title wave of emotion they provoke.
