Licensed Psychotherapist
Specializing in Men's Mental Health and Career Counseling
▪ Columbia University Educated. Rhode Island, New York, and Virginia State Licensed Psychotherapist. Specializing in Men's Mental Health & Career Counseling.
▪ Goals May Include But are Not Limited to: Career Exploration/Development, Decreasing Work-Related Stress, Preparing for An Interview/Negotiating Offers, Making Difficult Decisions, Improving Self-Esteem, St
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Treatment Plans Which Utilize Your Strengths,
Evening and Weekend Hours
I have experience with adult, child and adolescent populations. I have worked as an individual and family therapist at community mental health clinics in Springfield and Cape Cod. I worked as a behavioral specialist for several years at The Center for School Crisis intervention, an alternative school, in the Springfield/Holyoke area. In addition to private practice, I
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Carol Garfinkle, Psy.D.
Individual and Couples Therapy
The amount of training I have is what differentiates me from other psychologists. I believe in meeting someone where they are at and do so by drawing from a wide range of types of interventions. I treat clients from young children and adolescents to adults and couples. Parenting, stress management, relationship issues, ADHD, anxiety and depression are my specialty ar
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Addictions Specialist.
While I do provide general psychotherapy for adults, my specialty is addictions counseling.
Having worked for many years with individuals and family members who have suffered because of the disease of addictions, I can attest to the reality that the quality of life and relationships become significantly better with treatment.
I offer individual and couples
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Holistic Psychotherapist
I am focused on helping individuals, couples and families overcome past hurts, restore confidence and create life purpose by employing empirically proven, holistic and integrative, transcendental techniques. I specialize in working with adolescents (14-18), adults (18-60) and couples. I specialize in assisting my clients to work through relationships (infidelity, ange
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Every relationship deserves to succeed.
Conflicts in a marriage are rarely about the issues, but instead how couples talk about the issues.
In our couples counseling sessions, partners communicate face-to-face, openly and honestly about their issues. Throughout the conversation we will identify and prevent flashpoints that create conflict escalation. We will give feedback and provide direction toward the
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Psychotherapy with individuals and couples
I see therapy as a collaborative relationship that involves compassion and challenge. I actively engage with people to help them move through places where they are stuck in their lives. This may involve letting go of past hurts, learning loving kindness, developing skills and agency for living, and being able to play and experience joy. Each therapy is unique: it is d
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My approach to counseling is collaborative in that I enter into a partnership with my clients rather than maintaining the distanced stance of an expert. My view is that each person contains within them all of the resources necessary for healing and transformation and that my role in the relationship is to help them to see and actualize these strengths. The expressiv
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