CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY:

Working with children requires additional training as the approach is different than working with adults. Play therapy is a non-intrusive way of assisting children in understanding their thoughts and feelings.

It is through the world of play a child reveals his or her inner world through action, behavior, gestures, and words. Some children have difficulty explaining what is going on side of them, but through the world of play, a child learns to be more in touch with all feelings, thoughts, fears, and fantasies.  

Family therapy often is included as the entire family is part of the healing process.

ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY:
Therapy can be extremely important for teenagers.  This is a developmental phase that extends over a decade with many important life lessons to be sorted out.   

General issues teenagers face include learning about oneself and finding one’s identity. In part a teenager learns who he or she is through peer and romantic relationships as well as family and career choices. At the same time, teenagers appear perplexing. They can appear confident one moment and insecure and confused the next.   

Developmental struggles are played out within the family, at school, between friends, intimate relationships, and even as a result of what is happening on TV, the internet, and movies.  The wish for independence and being in charge of one’s life is frequently what produces miscommunications and conflict.  Sometimes therapy involves educating parents about developmental issue so they can appropriately provide the kind of emotional support and guidance best suited for their teenage son or daughter.

CONSULTING WITH ATHELTES
Sports psychology consulting is way to assist athletes of all ages understand the relationship between the mind and body.    When an athlete becomes anxious, worried, angry, or pessimistic, they are unable to perform to their potential.  

Learning skills to strengthen one’s mental outlook plus gaining greater emotional self-control over negative ideas and distorted beliefs can be the making of a significance difference in an athlete’s ability to succeed.  Whatever is happening on the sports field can be a metaphor for the athlete’s life beyond sports, so there are other issues we often address.  

ASSOCIATIONS:
I am a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), and within this national organization, I belong to the Florida Psychological Association (FPA), and Utah Psychological Association*(*I am licensed in two states.)

I also belong to other national organizations including the Association for Applied Sports Psychology (AASP) the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, Registrant #44838, the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE), American Psychoanalytic Association, Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Florida Psychoanalytic Society, and Collaborative Family Lawyers of South Florida.

I have served as an adjunct faculty member at St. Thomas University where I taught Sports Psychology to undergraduate and graduate students.

I am also on the Advisory Board for the Safe Haven for women and have been appointed to the Women of Tomorrow Mentor & Scholarship Program sponsored by NBC-Channel 6.

 

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