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Giftedness

“Giftedness is a greater awareness, a greater sensitivity and a greater ability to understand and transform perceptions into intellectual and emotional experiences” (Annemarie Roeper)
If you are very emotionally receptive to the world around you, If you are constantly looking for intellectual stimulus, trying to find connections and coming up with new ideas you may feel you are different, maybe think there's something wrong with you. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy lends itself to people who think this way

Autism Spectrum

Children, teens and adults who are diagnosed as high functioning autistic, PDD or have Asperger's syndrom can be helped using psychodynamic psychotherapy (play therapy for children). This approach takes into account the whole individual rather than attempting to teach them to copy certain behaviors that will "make them normal". Autistic children who have been treated in this approach have lost their diagnosis and have been able to use their own minds to learn and develop.

Life cycle events, transitions, tension in relationships, career decisions- all those issues bring people into therapy. Finding a way to be creative in your life, a place for your own thoughts and wishes- these are issues I take very seriously.

Therapy can help when the pressures of life become difficult to bare. Sometimes certain events bring up feelings from long ago that flood our system and make it hard to think clearly, make good choices, or even to function.

Building an intimate relationship, making career decisions, looking for a place to live, redefining relationships with parents and siblings- all those are issues that can bring a young adult to therapy.

For some of us who have struggled with depression, anxiety, social and family difficulties as children or adolescents, becoming a young adult can be extremely stressful

Changes in social and family relationships, sexual identity and academic pressures can lead to confusion, depression and anxiety. This is also a time for big questions to be asked: about life and love, second-guessing choices made by parents, trying things for one self.

A therapy relationship is a place to think and explore, to find out new truths about yourself and find ways to live in your environment.

A child will come to seek a therapist when the adults around her notice she has a problem that can't be addressed by her immediate surroundings or when outside circumstances are difficult for a child to handle. A therapist can help when the immediate environment is too preoccupied to do so or when a child's internal experience is preventing him from participating, enjoying and learning in his day to day life.