Services

Some of the most common reasons for seeking help from therapy include:

Emotional Distress/Depression/Anxiety

From time to time, everyone experiences emotional pain. But sometimes the distress is particularly severe or long-lasting and interferes with your ability to function in your daily life. If you are experiencing persistent sadness, grief, or anxiety, low self esteem and self worth, therapy can help relieve the symptoms, address the underlying causes of your distress, and provide you with help in restoring your emotional well-being.

ADD/ADHD

While most people understand ADHD as a problem that causes young people to perform poorly at school, they are unaware that its impact goes far beyond academic failure. In addition to poor concentration and attention span, ADHD also causes low self esteem, depression and anger among its sufferers, both children and adults. Being unable to perform up to our capabilities at school, or at work, ADHD undermines our sense of confidence in ourselves. It frustrates and angers those around us. It causes conflict between parents and their affected children, and between spouses and family members. However, with appropriate treatment and clear strategies to deal with the direct symptoms of ADHD and its consequences, ADHD can be remediated. This allows the affected individuals to be successful in their endeavors and the surrounding family members to regain the happiness they previously enjoyed with their child or partner.

Relationship Issues - Couples/Families/Adolescents and Children

Your distress may come from difficulties in your relationship with a spouse, parent, child, co-worker or significant other. Managing these relationships and maintaining healthy, positive connections to the people around you is often a very difficult task. Therapy, either individual or together with these other significant individuals, can help you to understand the roots of the problem, and provide you with the insight and skills you need to improve your relationship.

Coping Mechanisms/Strategies

Sometimes emotional distress or relationship problems are associated with poor coping mechanisms, or a pattern of social interaction that perpetuates the problem and just triggers more distress and conflict. You experience problems that never seem to get resolved, arguments over the same types of issues, all with escalating tension. Therapy can enable you to break that repetitive cycle and acquire or strengthen skills that can benefit many of the most important areas of your life.

Eating Disorders

Increasingly many individuals, both female and male, are struggling with issues of weight, food intake, diets and poor body image. The impact of these problems can be both emotionally devastating and life threatening. While eating disorders manifest themselves as medical problems, and require treatment by a knowledgeable and caring physician, their causes are psychological. Psychotherapy is a primary treatment for eating disorder. Changing the 'mindset' of an individual afflicted with an eating disorders, creating effective coping strategies, building confidence and improving self image are all part of successful plan to heal both the mind and the body.

Loss

Experiencing the loss of someone who is important to you (through death or separation) can result in great emotional pain. At any time in our lives we may find ourselves suffering the effects of loss. These symptoms may be obvious and cathartic, or hidden and insidious. They may happen right at the onset of the loss or weeks, months and even years later. Therapy can help you deal with the impact of your loss on your ability to function well and live a happy life. It can allow you to eventually put your loss in perspective and move on with your life.

Personal Growth

Therapy can help you overcome obstacles that have kept you from reaching your goals and becoming the person you want to be. Many of us seek to deepen the meaning of our lives and enhance the quality of our relationships. Many of us want to be more effective in our careers. Although you might not have a clinical condition or symptoms, therapy can help you learn more about yourself, as well as others, and discover how you can live your life with deeper personal satisfaction.