Patrick McGrath-Conwell is a Counselor based in the USA. My areas of speciality include Anger Management, Anxiety, Autism, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality, Coping Skills, Divorce, Emotional Disturbance, Life Transitions, and Self Esteem. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
I have had the opportunity to work for 36 years with Individual adults and adolescents, couples, families, and groups. The issues of trauma, loss, life changes, depression and anxiety are so much a part of all of our lives. Levels of stress complicate conversations, disconnect relationships, decrease self care, and interfere with our happiness. Finding balance is what this therapy can offer. Imagine sitting and talking with no judgement, confronting your own past and finding a new present. Working together we will undo old messages which have run your emotions and influenced your behaviors and create new ones you choose to live by. As a Gestalt trained therapist I use what is called the Cycle of Experience to expose what might be creating struggles and influencing complications in contact with yourself and others. We find sensations and thoughts which we have pushed down and we create new ones and then practice making contact with others reducing shame and increasing confidence. It is difficult walking through life wondering how you can get rid of the emotional weight that has influenced your mood and contact with others. We hesitate to change out of fear or just because nobody ever taught us and we feel stuck. Together we can identify the influences, change them and begin experimenting at your pace, with new ways to make contact.