Welcome to my website and to the complementary 'Tools and Skills' program for health and well-being. I am a licensed clinical psychologist and a listed member in the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry, with an office in Palm Beach County, at the Boca Raton airport, serving the South Florida areas of Boca Raton, Palm Beach, Ft.
Lauderdale and the rest of the world. Now on Skype, I am available for consultation to any location in the world for either clinical or sports related issues. Whether in the office or on Skype, I work with families, couples, and individuals who are struggling with mood disorders including depression and anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, trauma, conduct disorders, juvenile acting out, PTSD and other mental health conditions where psychotherapy and consultation are the treatments of choice.
The other specialty of my practice, I work with individual athletes, of all ages, developing personalized treatment programs to meet their needs for sport specific mastery and with teams to cultivate team building skills through targeted psychological treatment.
Lauderdale and the rest of the world. Now on Skype, I am available for consultation to any location in the world for either clinical or sports related issues. Whether in the office or on Skype, I work with families, couples, and individuals who are struggling with mood disorders including depression and anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, trauma, conduct disorders, juvenile acting out, PTSD and other mental health conditions where psychotherapy and consultation are the treatments of choice.
The other specialty of my practice, I work with individual athletes, of all ages, developing personalized treatment programs to meet their needs for sport specific mastery and with teams to cultivate team building skills through targeted psychological treatment.
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Relationships are difficult to keep alive.
Many relationships die along the way but have a capacity to endure the deadness through the years.
We are not taught how to be in a relationship, or how to maintain one, nor are we taught about the obstacles along the way.
Our model for marriage is from the observation of our parents who may have been as blind to the complexity of a successful relationship as we are.
Couples seek treatment for reasons having nothing to do with what the real problems are in the relationship.
Many relationships die along the way but have a capacity to endure the deadness through the years.
We are not taught how to be in a relationship, or how to maintain one, nor are we taught about the obstacles along the way.
Our model for marriage is from the observation of our parents who may have been as blind to the complexity of a successful relationship as we are.
Couples seek treatment for reasons having nothing to do with what the real problems are in the relationship.
Depression is not a choice.
We no more choose to be depressed than a flower chooses to wilt when deprived of sunshine.
Until our understanding of depression changes, we are doomed to suffer its most devastating effects.
We offer superficial suggestions such as, "just get over it", "the past is in the past", "stop moping", "stop feeling sorry for yourself".
There is implication in these suggestions that depression is somehow a character flaw: if you just decide to stop being depressed, you will.
We no more choose to be depressed than a flower chooses to wilt when deprived of sunshine.
Until our understanding of depression changes, we are doomed to suffer its most devastating effects.
We offer superficial suggestions such as, "just get over it", "the past is in the past", "stop moping", "stop feeling sorry for yourself".
There is implication in these suggestions that depression is somehow a character flaw: if you just decide to stop being depressed, you will.
We all experience anxiety at different times and different situations; but when anxiety is constant, overwhelming and interferes with our ability to sleep and generally function, we may be developing an anxiety disorder.
These include panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias and generalized anxiety disorder.
The causes are many - the expectation of shame and humiliation from an overly harsh and critical parent; various psychic conflicts such as the need to succeed and the fear of failure or success; the conflict between the need for independence and autonomy and the fear of abandonment; and a narcissistic fear of not making a perfect impression or performance.
These include panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias and generalized anxiety disorder.
The causes are many - the expectation of shame and humiliation from an overly harsh and critical parent; various psychic conflicts such as the need to succeed and the fear of failure or success; the conflict between the need for independence and autonomy and the fear of abandonment; and a narcissistic fear of not making a perfect impression or performance.
Everyone can now have a mental diagnosis: adjustment disorder, phobias, character disorder, borderline, paranoid, eating disorders, sleep disorders, the list goes on and on.
Are they necessary?
Not really!
Do all of these diagnostic labels lend to our greater understanding of the problems people suffer through their lives?
Absolutely not!
If anything, the opposite is true.
Labeling and medicating are distancing, objectifying and suppressive.
The pharmaceutical companies provided monetary support to 56% of the doctors who wrote the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual-IV, the bible of the mental health industry.
Are they necessary?
Not really!
Do all of these diagnostic labels lend to our greater understanding of the problems people suffer through their lives?
Absolutely not!
If anything, the opposite is true.
Labeling and medicating are distancing, objectifying and suppressive.
The pharmaceutical companies provided monetary support to 56% of the doctors who wrote the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual-IV, the bible of the mental health industry.
For most, the evolution of emotional problems begins in the early developmental years and gradually progresses to compromise life in significant ways.
But there are incidents that occur which are so profound, so disastrous, and so catastrophic that the events overwhelm every internal system.
The consequence is the shattering of the internal sense of self as well as the self-regulating physiological systems.
Trauma is an event outside normal human experience.
Traumaleaves you feeling powerless, helpless, paralyzed and confused.
But there are incidents that occur which are so profound, so disastrous, and so catastrophic that the events overwhelm every internal system.
The consequence is the shattering of the internal sense of self as well as the self-regulating physiological systems.
Trauma is an event outside normal human experience.
Traumaleaves you feeling powerless, helpless, paralyzed and confused.
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