If you've been disappointed in quick-fix approaches that promise much but deliver little in the way of lasting change, you might want to consider psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is essentially an extended conversation with a professional trained to help you become more aware of the motivations, feelings, conflicts, and patterns that are out of your awareness.
This expanded awareness becomes a springboard for thinking, feeling, and behaving in new ways that can interrupt self-defeating patterns and move you closer to your goals. It takes a long time to learn how to be an effective psychotherapist, so, when you have a lot at stake, you'll want to see someone with some experience behind her. As a highly trained therapist with 32 years of experience, I can help with complex problems that have resisted solution.
Whether you are struggling with a troubled relationship, with troubling symptoms (addiction, anxiety, depression), or with the aftereffects of difficult childhood experiences, my commitment is provide the right balance of support and challenge that will help you make the changes you desire.
This expanded awareness becomes a springboard for thinking, feeling, and behaving in new ways that can interrupt self-defeating patterns and move you closer to your goals. It takes a long time to learn how to be an effective psychotherapist, so, when you have a lot at stake, you'll want to see someone with some experience behind her. As a highly trained therapist with 32 years of experience, I can help with complex problems that have resisted solution.
Whether you are struggling with a troubled relationship, with troubling symptoms (addiction, anxiety, depression), or with the aftereffects of difficult childhood experiences, my commitment is provide the right balance of support and challenge that will help you make the changes you desire.
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Sharon Winkler, MSW, a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), a Master Addiction Counselor (MAC) and a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), has been providing psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families since 1987.
In keeping with her commitment to providing professional services of the highest caliber, she has undertaken extensive advanced training in both couple and family therapy (at the Family Institute of Westchester in New York) and in intensive individual therapy (at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in New York), in addition to her basic professional training at Columbia University (received a Master of Science in Social Work in 1987).
In keeping with her commitment to providing professional services of the highest caliber, she has undertaken extensive advanced training in both couple and family therapy (at the Family Institute of Westchester in New York) and in intensive individual therapy (at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in New York), in addition to her basic professional training at Columbia University (received a Master of Science in Social Work in 1987).
A growth-enhancing therapy that seeks to expand your understanding of self and others and to enhance your personal potential.
The development of self-understanding helps to alleviate problems in living and psychological distress.
Session content includes discussion of past and current relationships, symptoms, dreams, fantasies, and your thoughts and feelings about the therapist (called 'transference').
The goal is to eliminate or reduce a very specific, narrowly defined problem (for example, a child's temper tantrums).
The development of self-understanding helps to alleviate problems in living and psychological distress.
Session content includes discussion of past and current relationships, symptoms, dreams, fantasies, and your thoughts and feelings about the therapist (called 'transference').
The goal is to eliminate or reduce a very specific, narrowly defined problem (for example, a child's temper tantrums).
Do you want to improve your marriage or other family relationships?
Is your family struggling to adjust to a difficult life transition, such as divorce, remarriage, serious illness or death in the family?
Are you concerned about the behavior of a child or adolescent?
If so, you might want to consider couple or family therapy.
Although the focus of therapy is the family as a whole (or the couple), the therapist may not meet with the whole family for every session.
Sometimes, he/she will meet with individuals or with family subgroups (for example, all the children in a family, or only the parents).
Is your family struggling to adjust to a difficult life transition, such as divorce, remarriage, serious illness or death in the family?
Are you concerned about the behavior of a child or adolescent?
If so, you might want to consider couple or family therapy.
Although the focus of therapy is the family as a whole (or the couple), the therapist may not meet with the whole family for every session.
Sometimes, he/she will meet with individuals or with family subgroups (for example, all the children in a family, or only the parents).
Sharon is available to provide ongoing clinical supervision or short-term clinical consultation to therapists who want to strengthen and consolidate existing skills, develop new skills, or obtain a fresh perspective on a difficult case.
Psychotherapy is an enormously challenging and complex undertaking, in both intellectual and emotional terms.
Therefore, supervision and consultation (along with professional reading and coursework or conference attendance) are important throughout a therapist's career, not just at the beginning.
Psychotherapy is an enormously challenging and complex undertaking, in both intellectual and emotional terms.
Therefore, supervision and consultation (along with professional reading and coursework or conference attendance) are important throughout a therapist's career, not just at the beginning.
They include the following in some cases: Cypress Benefit Administrators, Meritain, UMR, Kaiser, Healthnet, Multiplan, Moda.
Contact Sharon for help if you're unsure.
My services will generally be covered by other plans as well if you have out-of-network coverage.
This means that you would be responsible for paying the full fee at the time services are rendered and would then submit your bills to your insurance company for reimbursement.
I will provide you with a bill that contains all necessary diagnostic and procedure codes.
Contact Sharon for help if you're unsure.
My services will generally be covered by other plans as well if you have out-of-network coverage.
This means that you would be responsible for paying the full fee at the time services are rendered and would then submit your bills to your insurance company for reimbursement.
I will provide you with a bill that contains all necessary diagnostic and procedure codes.
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