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  • Training Your Mind To Think Differently.

    "Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded" - Buddha

    What makes us unique?

    We are licensed marriage and family therapists who use innovative and integrative treatment techniques to assist individuals, couples, and families. Combining systemic thinking from a broader perspective we teach individuals and couples how to regulate emotions and behavior. We are also multicultural-centered, and focus on increasing clients strengths while decreasing client deficits.

    Do you have a DOT drug and alcohol violation? NO stress, we have Substance Abuse Professionals (SAP) who evaluate employees for successful completion to the return-to-duty process. We offer quick inital appointments and fast turn around times. We provide psychosocial evaluations for immigration purposes.

    We are NY State approved providers of continuing education courses to mental health practitioners.

    About Marriage and Family Therapy

    What is Marriage and Family Therapy?

    A family’s patterns of behavior influences the individual and therefore may need to be a part of the treatment plan. In marriage and family therapy, the unit of treatment isn’t just the person – even if only a single person is interviewed – it is the set of relationships in which the person is imbedded.

    Marriage and family therapists treat a wide range of serious clinical problems including: depression, marital problems, anxiety, individual psychological problems, and child-parent problems.

    Marriage and family therapy is as effective, and in some cases more effective than standard and/or individual treatments for many mental health problems such as: adult schizophrenia, affective (mood) disorders, adult alcoholism and drug abuse, children’s conduct disorders, adolescent drug abuse, anorexia in young adult women, childhood autism, chronic physical illness in adults and children, and marital distress and conflict.

    Who are Marriage and Family Therapists?

    Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs) are mental health professionals trained in psychotherapy and family systems, and licensed to diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders within the context of marriage, couples and family systems.

    Marriage and family therapists are a highly experienced group of practitioners. They evaluate and treat mental and emotional disorders, other health and behavioral problems, and address a wide array of relationship issues within the context of the family system.

    Marriage and Family Therapists broaden the traditional emphasis on the individual to attend to the nature and role of individuals in primary relationship networks such as marriage and the family. MFTs take a holistic perspective to health care; they are concerned with the overall, long-term well-being of individuals and their families.

    Why use a Marriage and Family Therapist?

    Research studies repeatedly demonstrate the effectiveness of marriage and family therapy in treating the full range of mental and emotional disorders and health problems. Adolescent drug abuse, depression, alcoholism, obesity and dementia in the elderly — as well as marital distress and conflict — are just some of the conditions Marriage and Family Therapists effectively treat.

    Studies also show that clients are highly satisfied with services of Marriage and Family Therapists. Clients report marked improvement in work productivity, co-worker relationships, family relationships, partner relationships, emotional health, overall health, social life, and community involvement.

    After receiving treatment, almost 90% of clients report an improvement in their emotional health, and nearly two-thirds report an improvement in their overall physical health. A majority of clients report an improvement in their functioning at work, and over three-fourths of those receiving marital/couples or family therapy report an improvement in the couple relationship. When a child is the identified patient, parents report that their child’s behavior improved in 73.7% of the cases, their ability to get along with other children significantly improved and there was improved performance in school. Marriage and family therapy’s prominence in the mental health field has increased due to its brief, solution-focused treatment, its family-centered approach, and its demonstrated effectiveness.

    The Federal government has designated marriage and family therapy as a core mental health profession along with psychiatry, psychology, social work and psychiatric nursing. Currently all 50 states support and regulate the profession by licensing marriage and family therapists.

    About Us

    Lillian Goldberg

    Lillian Goldberg

    Dorothy is a licensed psychoanalyst who specializes in adjustment disorders, personality disorders, relationship issues, and grief and bereavement.

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