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Individual Therapy
I provide interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) to men and women,
or their partners, who are suffering from depression and postpartum
depression. Twenty years of experience with depression, both as
a researcher and as a psychotherapist, has convinced me that depression
is strongly linked to problems in close relationships. Depressed
clients tell me that they feel needy, criticized, rejected, unloved
or overlooked in their relationships with their children, romantic
partners, spouses, friends or parents. They have difficulty expressing
their feelings and getting their needs met in these relationships.
Clients with depressed partners tell me they feel burdened by
their partner's depression and that they don't know how to help.
Together, we try to change problematic relationships and/or my
clients' perceptions of them so that relationships work better
and clients feel better.
Three-quarters of the clients who complete therapy with me report
that they are no longer depressed and that their relationships
have significantly improved.
I charge $160 per one-hour session of individual therapy.
If you're interested in individual psychotherapy with me, please
click here to contact me.
To learn more about psychological treatments for
depression, click here.
To learn more about postpartum depression, click
here.
Couple Therapy
Emotion-focused therapy (or EFT) is a highly effective treatment
for marital problems. I work with couples who are dissatisfied
or fighting because of problems with communication, intimacy,
infidelity or a partner's depression. At the beginning of treatment,
these men and women tell me that they want a close relationship,
but don't know how to achieve it. Often one partner feels angry
and emotionally needy, while the other seems disconnected from
the relationship. Sometimes both partners feel disconnected. Together,
we work to change the relationship so that both partners feel
more secure in the relationship, and they are better able to communicate
about their emotional needs.
Three-quarters of the couples who complete couple therapy with
me report that their relationship has improved significantly and
that they feel closer and are better able to express emotional
needs to one another.
Couple sessions cost $160 per hour. Sessions range from 60 to
75 minutes, depending on the issues addressed.
f you're interested in couple therapy with me, click
here.
If
you want to learn more about couples therapy, click here.
To learn more about EFT, click
here.
For a recent article about coping with a depressed loved one,
click
here.
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