Services
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PHILOSOPHY
In a comfortable, supportive, and safe atmosphere I offer a highly personalized approach tailored to your individual needs to help you attain the personal growth you are striving for. I specialize in psychoanalytic psychotherapy which focuses on the exploration of your present difficulties, past history including early childhood experiences, and the relationships in your life, including the relationship you develop with me, your therapist. The aim of this treatment approach is to reduce troubling symptoms such as depression and anxiety, enhance personal development and improve relationships and overall psychological well being. Therapy is open ended. It is available for as long as you and I believe is necessary to achieve your treatment goals.
Every therapy session is unique and caters to each individual and their specific goals. It is common to schedule a series of weekly sessions, where each session lasts fifty minutes. Therapy can be short-term, focusing on a specific issue, or longer-term, addressing more complex issues or ongoing personal growth.
BENEFITS
Many times a specific event forces us to deal with life-long issues that we have put on hold and therapy becomes an important tool to sort things out. Here are some of the benefits you can expect from therapy:
• A better understanding of yourself and your goals
• Skills for improving your relationships
• New ways to cope with stress and anxiety
• Managing anger, grief, sadness, and other emotional pressures
• Improved communications skills
• Changing old behavior patterns and developing new ones
FEES
I work on a fee for service basis (cash or check) and will provide a receipt at the end of each session which may be submitted to an insurance company for reimbursement. I am not a member of managed care panels, but I do accept Medicare and Victim Assistance Programs. Individual, family, and couple sessions are billed at $150 per 50-minutes session. Group therapy sessions are billed at $50 per session. Reduced fee services are available on a limited basis.
APPOINTMENTS
Appointments are also available in the evenings and on Saturdays. Interested individuals are encouraged to call me at 949.290.2050 to schedule an initial consultation.
SPECIALTIES & POPULATIONS
I am committed to promoting a unified mind-body perspective on health and illness, and I specialize in the treatment of relationship problems, eating disturbances, and gender and sexuality related concerns. To coordinate care, I collaborate with other professionals; including physicians, psychiatrists, nutritionists and social workers. I provide confidential, discreet, and affirming outpatient psychotherapy and emotional support to individual adults, couples, families, and groups.