Services Offered

Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents:

1. Improving success and motivation at school
2. Managing ADHD/ADD and learning disabilities
3. Coping with anxiety or depression
4. Building social skills and relationships with peers
5. Improving family, sibling, and parent-child relationships
6. Building confidence
7. Standing up to bullies and learning assertiveness
8. Enhancing problem solving abilities

Assessment and Psychoeducational Testing Services for Students:

1. Strengths, talents and potential
2. Learning problems, learning disabilities, and ADHD/ADD
3. Asperger’s Syndrome or Non-Verbal Learning Disability
4. Personality issues
5. Behavior problems
6. Best learning styles
7. Recommendations for parents, student and school to improve academic and social success
8. Accommodations needed for academic success and/or standardized testing (IEP/504)
9. Updated assessment of previously diagnosed disabilities

Psychotherapy for Adults and Couples:

1. Making partnerships and marriages more successful
2. Planning the next stage in relationships
3. Improving communication and reducing conflict
4. Recapturing satisfaction and joy in relationships
5. Managing, planning, and communicating through change
6. Coping with family crises
7. Improving success and happiness at work
8. Improving supervisory and management skills
9. Being more productive and focused at work and at home
10. Personal growth and self-awareness
11. Assessment of personal strengths
12. Understanding your own childhood issues
13. Overcoming depression and anxiety
14. Managing acute/chronic illness
15. Overcoming loss

Assessment and Psychological Testing Services for Adults:

1. Strengths and talents
2. Explore difficulties in academic, occupational, or relationship functioning
3. Best learning and work styles
4. Supervisory style
5. Career decision, directions, and changes
6. Diagnosis of emotional or cognitive problems
7. Memory problems and possible causes
8. Interpersonal style; relationship style
9. Problematic patterns in cognition and behavior that could be improved with therapy

Parent Education and Training:

1. What to expect of children and teenagers at each age and stage of development
2. Using positive, non-punitive methods to develop good behavior
3. Decreasing conflict and power struggles
4. Improving self-control in children and parents
5. Identifying, setting, and reinforcing reasonable limits
6. Improving problem solving and conflict resolution in the family
7. Improving communication within family
8. Improving social support and reducing parent stress

Medication Evaluation:

1. Determine the appropriateness of pharmacological interventions
2. Which medications are best for patients’ signs, symptoms, and diagnoses
3. Explore the risks, benefits, and side effects for medication
4. Determining if your current medication regimen remains your best option
5. Evaluations and interventions appropriate for athletes

School Consultation:

1. Interventions with specific students, given their learning difficulties, styles, and strengths
2. Preparing students for upcoming changes
3. Helping students cope with and respond to national, international, local or school events
4. Responding to school crises
5. Helping students develop and demonstrate leadership, compassion, commitment, cooperation, or other positive characteristics
6. Reducing bullying in school

Sports and Performance Enhancement, Consultation and Coaching:

1. Performance Enhancement
2. The Mental Game of Sports
3. Improving Focus
4. Setting Goals
5. Avoiding Common Performance Pitfalls
6. Recovering from “Slumps”
7. Improving Team and Coaching Relationships
8. Recovering from Injury
9. Planning Your Career
10. Planning for Life after Sports
11. Maintaining and Improving Relationships
12. Maintaining Integrity