What I Specialize In:
General Mental Health
Personal Growth and Self-esteem
General Relationship Challenges (family, friends, co-workers)
Race and Ethnicity
Addiction and Substance Misuse
General Mental Health:
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being altogether. It affects how we think, feel, and act, and helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.
Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Over the course of your life, if you experience mental health problems, your thinking, mood, and behavior could most likely be affected.
Types of Psychotherapy:
Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals use several types of therapy. The choice of therapy type depends on the patient’s particular challenges and circumstances and his/her preference. Psychiatrists, as well as other clinicians will sometimes combine elements from different approaches to best meet the needs of the person receiving treatment.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT):
This helps people identify and change thinking and behavior patterns that are unhealthy or ineffective, replacing them with more accurate thoughts and functional behaviors.
It can help a person focus better on current problems and how to solve them. It often involves practicing new skills in the “real world.” CBT can be helpful in treating a variety of disorders, including depression, anxiety, trauma related disorders, and eating disorders.
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT):
Interpersonal therapy (IPT) is a short-term form of treatment. It helps patients understand underlying interpersonal issues that are troublesome, like unresolved grief, changes in social or work roles, conflicts with significant others, and problems relating to others.
It will help people learn healthy ways to express emotions and ways to improve communication and how they relate to others. This is most often used to treat depression.
Supportive Therapy:
Supportive therapy uses guidance and encouragement to help patients develop their own resources. It helps build self-esteem, reduce anxiety, strengthen coping mechanisms, and improve social and community functioning. Supportive psychotherapy helps patients deal with issues related to their mental health conditions which in turn affect the rest of their lives.
Psychodynamic Therapy:
This is based on the idea that behavior and mental well-being are rooted in childhood and past experiences and involves bringing to conscious awareness feelings that might be unconscious (outside a person's awareness).
A person works with the therapist to improve self-awareness and to change deep-seated patterns so that they can more fully take charge of their life.