Psychotherapy in our office always begins with an extensive Intake Evaluation and Social History. This Intake Evaluation includes first sitting with the individual and hearing what is important to them and to find out why they have come.  Then, we direct the client through their personal history.

Following the intake and history we then administer a battery of psychological tests and inventories to document the individual’s strengths of personality as well as levels of distress from which we can develop a therapeutic program specifically suited to the client.

The process of psychotherapy deals with any or all of the following matters:

• Understanding personality
• Understanding intelligences specific to the client
• Resolution of hurts and traumas
• Improvement in communication and relationships
• Vocational adjustment and change
• Other matters related to satisfaction in life

The course of psychotherapy can be short or long depending on the needs and interests of the client and the complexity of the client‘s life situation. Some issues can be resolved in short order when an effective assessment takes place. More often, however, psychotherapy requires longer periods of time so that the development of self-understanding and self-acceptance can lead to productive resolution of the presenting difficulty.