Psychotherapy Services

Here are some of the psychotherapy services we offer in our practice:

• Individual Therapy
• Couples Therapy
• Group Therapy
• Child and Adolescent Therapy

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy is the best foundation for personal change work. In one-to-one meetings, we develop an important working relationship built on trust and developed over time. Trust is earned. We go at your pace.

Through our interactive style of therapy, you are able to achieve many goals. We work together to build your self-esteem, improve your communication style, and help you recover from hurts. You learn new concepts that can be applied to day-to-day issues to improve your quality of life. Other goals are to identify the underlying causes of pain in your daily life.

Together we explore decisions and changes in your life and try to sort out which are in your best self interest. We try to differentiate these from others that may simply replicate problems of the past. Your therapist is charged with being direct and honest with you to help you stay true to your healthiest self and to continually strengthen yourself.

Individual therapy is the best place to explore new, more accurate ways of viewing yourself and your relationships.

"Carl, I've gotten a lot of benefit from working with you and appreciate the feedback, support, and prodding you have given me in learning more about my determinants. The work was hard but useful. Thanks for everything."

—A national business consultant in her 40's

Couples Therapy

Couples therapy is a vehicle for couples to address a variety of issues and grow in many ways. Couples have used our work together to:

Enrich the Closeness of their Relationship

Couples therapy can teach couples skills, approaches, and treatment for making a basically good relationship even better. This often involves practicing more effective communication with partners.

Make Decisions Collaboratively

It can be used by couples who want to explore an upcoming decision together. All couples have some trouble making decisions. Having a forum where you can state your different needs respectfully and without fighting helps you move to a decision.

Reduce Hurt and Fighting

Sometimes people who are close to each other get each other going, and then they sometimes find it hard to stop fighting. Many couples come to couples therapy because they want help to stopping fighting. They also want to learn better how to make up from fights. Couples who are having trouble but who wish to stay together learn through therapy to communicate more effectively, minimize blaming, reduce their fighting, and make up.

Couples therapy, however, is not a place or time to fight or criticize your partner. It is often a time to learn to establish and practice a style of communicating that enhances and promotes the love between the two of you.

Lay Healthy Groundwork Together as a New Couple

New couples learn to collaborate and negotiate while maintaining their warmth toward each other, and to eliminate hurt and disappointment before it starts. For many new couples, therapy at this stage of their relationship helps reduce anxiety.

Reduce Uncertainty about Staying Together

When couples are not sure if they want to stay together, couples therapy can help them understand their needs, conflicts, and process so that a thoughtful decision can be made.

Minimize Pain around Parting

Breaking up surely is hard to do. But some couples use couples therapy to help them manage their hurt and anger so that they can break up in a way that is less acrimonious. Parents who need to split up can make the separation process less traumatic for both themselves and their children.

"Marcia has worked with me and my wife, and we learned greatly about communicating, anger management, compassion, and empathy."

—A young husband in his 30's.

Group Therapy

In Group therapy, members improve their communication styles and become more comfortable in how they relate to other people. Group therapy provides you with a safe place to get meaningful and candid feedback on how you come across. It is an excellent place to test out your new interpersonal strengths.

"In group therapy I learn how I come across to other people and examine what might get in the way of having a healthy dating relationship."

—A single woman in her 40's

Child and Adolescent Therapy

Child therapy can help kids and teenagers in many areas. By learning to understand themselves, their feelings, and their families better, they become more effective at getting their needs met.

School also presents many challenges to kids and teenagers. They sometimes need a place outside of the family in which to understand their pain and their problems. In therapy they learn to get perspective on their difficulties and handle themselves better without compromising their relationships with teachers and fellow students.

Child therapy is done in conjunction with therapy for the child's parents.

"I have made tremendous changes working with Marcia. My life has been greatly improved by our relationship and our work together."

—A married father of two children