Therapy for couples looking to re-fall in love

Psychotherapy for adults and couples in CA

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The goal of psychotherapy is to make you stronger and more focused, so you can solve the problems that baffle and frustrate you today. You don't have to face alone the issues and situations that you are not sure how to master. Victory may find you at last if you keep hammering away with the same old hammer. Or success may come to stay in your life if you change your strategy entirely. Which path should you take?  That is the mystery of your life today, and I would like to help you solve this puzzle.

A Taste of Therapy

Read the exercises below when you can stop and reflect on them.

empower

Seeking help is the path

Find and use your strength and goodness that is already within you. Depression or anxiety distract you from your goals, make you forget your values, tell you that you are weak and vulnerable. But I know you have not given up yet because you are reading my website.  his is the kernel of strength and goodness inside you that we can work with and bring out to make a difference in your life. We can leverage it to lift you up above your current challenges to see the future that you want to build.

If a miracle happened...

How is your life going to be different? What’s the first thing you will notice after you wake up that tells you that things are different now?

When you achieve your most important goal...

Who would you call first to tell them about it? To whom would you say, “Thanks for your help”? “I did it without you”?

To break a habit...

1) Identify the moment you tend to act automatically,
2) Don’t do it,
3) See what thoughts and feelings come up,
4) Write them down,
5) Discuss these with your therapist.

Write a letter to a younger version of yourself

What would you warn yourself about? What would you reassure yourself about? What would you praise yourself for?

family

Emotionally-charged business, workplace, estate planning, and family decisions with financial and legal consequences

Individual and couples therapy, divorce coaching and divorce therapy for people facing serious marital difficulties, considering divorce or going through divorce

Emotionally-charged estate planning dilemmas, including decisions to set up special needs and generation-skipping trusts, sibling rivalry, child/stepparent rivalry, and trustee issues.

Emotionally-charged business, workplace, estate planning, and family decisions with financial and legal consequences

Work issues including career choice for young people, executive strategy in the workplace, leaving work at the office, putting work out of mind when working from home, deciding about major elective expenses, and opting out of maximum income career paths

health

Health psychotherapy, including mindfulness

Many physical illnesses are caused or made worse by stress, for example, hypertension and other forms of heart disease and chronic pain.

For many patients, medical science does not offer today a full, or even a partial cure. In addition to physical limitations, shortened lifespan, and pain, these patients suffer from a sense of betrayal by the medical profession. This sense of betrayal is the flip side of the 20th and 21st century entitlement the rest of us feel, when we go to a doctor and expect have our medical problems fixed.

Yet other patients puzzle doctor with what doctors call lack of “compliance”. People don’t take the meds they need or take them using the wrong regimen that renders the medication useless. Helping patients embrace healthy lifestyle choices also frustrates traditional medicine.  In the last thirty years, doctors lost the extra weight. Walk through a hospital and you will be hard pressed to find a single overweight doctor or nurse. But the medical profession despite its dogged commitment has not been able to win the hearts and minds of two-thirds of Americans who are overweight or obese. This is where psychotherapy can help.

children

Raising, in the environment of privilege, strong children who can delay gratification and make hard choices to advance their goals

Both poverty and privilege present challeges to parenting but these challenges are different. The fruits of hard work of the parent who earned them do not mean the same thing to the child as to the parent.

Health Psychology and Health Coaching

It’s not enough to say you love yourself.  Where is the proof of love?
Big health improvements start with small positive changes in your lifestyle and habits.  If you have tried to make these changes on your own, but they did not stick, don’t give up.

You have tried to do it alone.  Now try it with some coaching.  There is a reason why no Olympic champion ever trained withtout a coach.  Doing it without help is the amature way.

Protect  your heart

Meditation provides many benefits for your heart which beats tirelessly and faithfully in your chest.  Meditation will reduce harmful hormones, ease stress and anxiety and reduce heart rate and blood pressure.

Quit smoking

Quitting smoking is hard for everyone but especially for people who have been hooked since they were kids.  Therapy can help break this and other habits.

Reduce chronic pain

Therapy provides valuable tools and techniques like mindfulness can help individuals manage pain and improve their overall well-being. By learning to cope effectively, individuals can navigate the challenges of chronic pain and improve their quality of life.

Eliminate chronic insomnia

Insomnia is devastating to one’s wellbeing and is usually a response to stressful or traumatic life event.  This is why the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) say cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) works as well as medications for chronic insomnia and is less risky than drugs. Read more.

Take the first step to a better you

Schedule your free consultation and start your journey today.