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Specialty Areas
Decreasing depression and anxiety
- Eliminating symptoms of depression and anxiety
- Reducing the likelihood of future depressive/anxious episodes
- Living and thriving with a family member diagnosed with a mental illness
- Addressing issues of grief and loss
Finding meaning/creating balance
- Resolving long-standing areas of emotional pain
- Building healthy strategies and patterns of communication
- Balancing multiple, conflicting demands
- Unleashing creativity / overcoming creative blocks
- Women's growth and empowerment
Enhancing family and partner relationships
- Building healthy relationships
- Building effective communication skills and effective patterns of interaction
- Parenting challenges (for any family composition, including single parent, blended, divorced and adoptive families)
Creating a Family
- Pregnancy
- Infertility
- Adoption - Working with all members of the triad: adoptive parents, birth parents, and adult adoptees
Life Transitions - surviving and thriving at times of change
- Building toward marriage and life partnership
- Coping with relationship distress, separation, or divorce
- After the affair - how to reassess and, if appropriate, rebuild a relationship
- Making a positive career change
- Adults returning to school
- Caring for aging parents
Issues encountered in late life
- Planning for a satisfying retirement
- Learning about normal, expected age-related changes
- Coping with a loved one's illness
- Adapting to losses and change
- Geriatric evaluations /assessments to determine if there is any cognitive decline beyond normal age-related changes
Unique issues affecting members of target groups
- Addressing the impact of sexism, homophobia, racism and other forms of oppression on sense of self
- Identifying and challenging internalized oppression
- Balancing multiple identities, public and private selves
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