Johnson Memorial Hosp. Call for information. Approach is cognitive behavior therapy. Emphasis on self-management and problem solving. Thinking pattern used as a starting point because it affects the way we behave.
Treatment begins with a careful conceptualization of the problem.
Emphasis on rapid skill acquisition, education about one's disorder, and an active collaboration. As a psychologist with 30 years experience, I counsel adults, couples and families, children and adolescents and their parents. I believe the best treatment to be brief and direct in guiding clients to make the behavioral and attitudinal changes that are necessary to resolve their difficulties which often stem from a combination of skill deficits and unreasonable expectations and beliefs, complicated by the accumulation of previously well-intentioned but flawed solutions. I specialize in obsessive-compulsive disorder and its treatment with exposure and response prevention therapy. I have been in practice for 20 years and am past president of the Connecticut Behavior Therapy Association.