Who could benefit from psychotherapy?
- Anxiety: Individuals suffering from chronic and/or acute fearfulness, nervousness, or phobic reactions.
- Mood problems: Individuals struggling with depression, and instability of mood or numbness.
- Low self-esteem: Individuals who have difficulty maintaining a consistent feeling of well being.
- Bereavement following the loss of loved ones.
- Relationship issues: Maintaining intimate relationships is a major and ongoing challenge of adult life.
- Grief following a variety of losses. This could include the intense grief following the end of a marriage, or the grief that some parents feel when children go off to college, the failure of a business or career (see article on grief on following pages).
- Post traumatic responses: Individuals who have experienced either a single event trauma such as an automobile accident or responses to early life abuse and neglect which may result in mood instability, fearfulness, sleep and eating problems, etc.
- Personality disorders: Individuals who find themselves dealing with the consequences of self defeating behavior, perhaps difficulties controlling their anger, making decisions that do not serve their best interests, avoidance of social interactions.