Welcome

Welcome to my private and independent Clinical and Consulting Psychology practice. I have obtained the highest level of training in my field order to serve you with a unique standard of professional service in a comfortable and private environment. A full spectrum of effective assessment, intervention, and consultation techniques are available. My breadth of general clinical skills is complemented by my four areas of expertise: Performance Enhancement Assessment (PEA), Child/Adolescent Psychology, Parent Consultation, and Evidence-Based Treatment (EBT) of common problems.

My office is located next to St. Joseph’s Hospital where I maintain a staff appointment and where I served as a consultant to the Rehabilitation Psychology and Bariatric Surgery Teams.

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Unique Approach

I offer a full spectrum of quality services, and focus on tailoring the frequency and intensity of the approach to fit your personality, situation, and needs.

Together we will design the mixture of assessment, intervention, and consultation services that will most efficiently address your situation. From there we make a plan of how we will measure our progress toward the outcome. Clinical psychologists have special expertise with how to appreciate your complexity, and how to help you determine how the most progress can be made.

I think of my work with you as a healthcare partnership. The good doctor only treats the problem, the great doctor appreciates the whole person.

I never define people by their problems, rather, I see their problems from within their unique mixture of Character strengths. I am fully committed to treating people with dignity, and with respect for their individuality. Many psychologists do not fully appreciate the relationship of a person’s Value/Belief system to their life. I have had special training in this area, as well as in the area of Psychology and Religion/Spirituality.

This is an example of how my approach is uniquely integrative. While there are sometimes over 50 kinds of treatments available for any one problem, the question is which combination of methods has the highest Integrative Quality (IQ). This is where my rigorous training in evidence-based treatments can help you the most.

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Evidence-Based Focus

I select treatments that you are comfortable with, which match your Values and outlook, and which also have the most scientific data supporting them. Increasingly healthcare is moving toward discussion of using evidence-based resources.

My focus is to choose the most effective and efficient treatment that is comfortable for you. This choice demands review of competing scientific opinion, and also the thoughtful application of that treatment in a way that is tailored to your personality. As an outcome-based psychologist.

To understand how you are best served by someone with strong scientific training, go to the section on “How do Psychologists function”.

In a time when there are over 50 treatments for even simple problems, you want to find someone who can sift through all the options, many of which have some research behind them. You want someone who knows which research to look at, and how to evaluate the scientific value of competing opinions.