With over three decades of experience, Dr. LaValle offers psychotherapy, meditation training, and life coaching to adults, adolescents, children, families, and couples. Dr. LaValle is a licenced psychologist and is accredited by the National Register of Health Service Providers. His areas of specialization include trauma / PTSD recovery, depression and anxiety, life transitions, attachment wounds, relationship conflicts, and meditation training.
He adopts a collaborative approach in his work with clients, seeking to help mobilize their inner resources to accomplish the growth, resolution, and healing they seek. Dr. LaValle utilizes mindfulness-based interventions and meditation practices extensively in his work with clients. He is certified by the Center for Mindfulness / Oasis Institute at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center where the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course was originally developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Dr. LaValle offers this 8-week MBSR course three times a year and also provides individual meditation training.
He adopts a collaborative approach in his work with clients, seeking to help mobilize their inner resources to accomplish the growth, resolution, and healing they seek. Dr. LaValle utilizes mindfulness-based interventions and meditation practices extensively in his work with clients. He is certified by the Center for Mindfulness / Oasis Institute at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center where the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course was originally developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Dr. LaValle offers this 8-week MBSR course three times a year and also provides individual meditation training.
Services
As the name suggests, individual therapy is all about the patient as an individual.
Therapy sessions typically last about an hour and the frequency of appointments will depend on your specific course of therapy.
Dr. LaValle provides a warm, safe and comfortable setting where you can expect to be treated with respect, understanding and compassion.
You will be supported to work through issues at your own pace, but you also will be engaged and challenged.
People seek professional help from Dr. LaValle for various reasons, including life transitions, grief and loss, personal growth, relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, and trauma.
Therapy sessions typically last about an hour and the frequency of appointments will depend on your specific course of therapy.
Dr. LaValle provides a warm, safe and comfortable setting where you can expect to be treated with respect, understanding and compassion.
You will be supported to work through issues at your own pace, but you also will be engaged and challenged.
People seek professional help from Dr. LaValle for various reasons, including life transitions, grief and loss, personal growth, relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, and trauma.
Parents and other caregivers have an enormous influence on the development of a child's brain.
When those figures provide attentive care, a child's neural pathways develop positively and the child learns to regulate emotions.
When a child's needs go consistently unmet, however, effective pathways cannot form, compromising a child's sense of security and the ability to actualize their potential.
DNMS (Developmental Needs Meeting Strategies) aims to complete the establishment of functional neural pathways in adults who experienced unmet needs as children.
When those figures provide attentive care, a child's neural pathways develop positively and the child learns to regulate emotions.
When a child's needs go consistently unmet, however, effective pathways cannot form, compromising a child's sense of security and the ability to actualize their potential.
DNMS (Developmental Needs Meeting Strategies) aims to complete the establishment of functional neural pathways in adults who experienced unmet needs as children.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that result from disturbing life experiences.
The success of this treatment approach over the past 26 years has challenged the long-held belief that it takes many years to recover from anxiety, panic, disturbing memories, and post traumatic stress.
EMDR is considered a breakthrough therapy because of its simplicity and its capacity to bring lasting relief for many types of emotional distress in a very efficient manner.
The success of this treatment approach over the past 26 years has challenged the long-held belief that it takes many years to recover from anxiety, panic, disturbing memories, and post traumatic stress.
EMDR is considered a breakthrough therapy because of its simplicity and its capacity to bring lasting relief for many types of emotional distress in a very efficient manner.
Relationships should provide both partners with a sense of happiness and fulfillment, but can often end up in conflict, confusion and hurt feelings.
Intimate relationships are often challenged by work and parenting stress, financial difficulty, vocational unhappiness and unresolved childhood/past relationship issues.
Partners struggle to find the time to enjoy each other's company.
Ineffective communication habits take root leading to misunderstanding and disillusionment.
In some instances, relationships are additionally and painfuly challenged by an affair and/or by addictions.
Intimate relationships are often challenged by work and parenting stress, financial difficulty, vocational unhappiness and unresolved childhood/past relationship issues.
Partners struggle to find the time to enjoy each other's company.
Ineffective communication habits take root leading to misunderstanding and disillusionment.
In some instances, relationships are additionally and painfuly challenged by an affair and/or by addictions.
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an empirically-supported 8-week program designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion.
Based on the groundbreaking research of Kristen Neff and the clinical expertise of Chris Germer, a leader in the integration of mindfulness and psychotherapy, MSC teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to difficult moments in their lives with kindness, care, and understanding.
Dr. LaValle is a Trained Teacher credentialed by the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion at the University of California San Diego.
Based on the groundbreaking research of Kristen Neff and the clinical expertise of Chris Germer, a leader in the integration of mindfulness and psychotherapy, MSC teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to difficult moments in their lives with kindness, care, and understanding.
Dr. LaValle is a Trained Teacher credentialed by the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion at the University of California San Diego.
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