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Are You Struggling to Make Peace with a Herpes Diagnosis?
HerpesNY! provides a full range of consultation, counseling, and psychotherapy services for individuals who have received a herpes diagnosis and for their family members, other loved ones, and intimate partners.
The Emotional Challenges
Raised by the Herpes Virus
It is widely acknowledged that the emotional challenges of the herpes virus tend to be far more challenging than the physical ones.
In addition to practical matters in the areas of health, dating, and sexual intimacy, the herpes virus, for many individuals, serves as a "trigger" or precipitant for additional emotional or psychological reactions and responses. These reactions or responses may be experienced as more or less disabling to those diagnosed and to those closest to them.
HerpesNY! provides a full range of consultation, counseling, and psychotherapy services for individuals who have received a herpes diagnosis and for their family members, other loved ones, and intimate partners.
It is widely acknowledged that the emotional challenges of the herpes virus tend to be far more challenging than the physical ones.
In addition to practical matters in the areas of health, dating, and sexual intimacy, the herpes virus, for many individuals serves as a "trigger" or precipitant for additional emotional or psychological reactions and responses. These may be experienced as more or less disturbing to those diagnosed and to those closest to them.
HerpesNY! provides a full range of supportive and therapeutic services focusing on:
* Crisis Intervention and stabilization.
* Facilitation of healthy life adjustment.
* Resolution of old traumas that may have been reactivated.
* Resolution of relationship issues / building and strengthening healthy and supportive relationships.
* Developing and enjoying (or moving back into and reclaiming!) a truly healthy and thriving lifestyle.
Individual Counseling or Psychotherapy
Individual counseling or psychotherapy is initially the service of choice during the early phases of coming to terms with the herpes virus and its emotional and social implications. This is often supplemented, however, by couples or family counseling or psychotherapy - to the degree that other individuals may also have been affected by the herpes diagnosis.
Couples or Family Counseling or Psychotherapy
Couples counseling or psychotherapy is often indicated to address issues regarding trust, sexual intimacy, choices regarding health consciousness and future safety, and, in some instances, real or perceived infidelity. Couples counseling or psychotherapy may be indicated for couples who have been together for long periods of time or for those who have come together more recently. An individual who has been diagnosed with the herpes virus may request couples services to assist in negotiating herpes-related issues with former partners or with new ones.
Family counseling, including adolescents or children, may be indicated when an adolescent or child has been (regrettably) exposed to information regarding a parent or caregiver having received a herpes diagnosis - or when the individual who has been diagnosed is, themselves, an adolescent or child.
Group Counseling or Psychotherapy
Following initial stabilization, individuals who have been diagnosed with the herpes virus, or those who are closest to them, often receive great benefit from talking, within a safe and supportive environment, with others whose circumstances are similar.
Workshops and Educational Seminars
Workshops and educational seminars are offered to physician groups, mental health facilities, hospitals, and other interested community entities. Fees are negotiated based on the location and length of the workshop or semin
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