Positive Psychology focuses on the positive influences in the client’s life, such as institutions, optimistic emotions, and character strengths.
Positive Psychology therapists believe that emotional and mental factors lead to happiness, so they help clients identify happiness from moment to moment.
Positive Psychology utilizes positive emotion, engagement, and meaning to enhance the client’s life. The therapist will ask the client to maintain a journal of positive experiences each day in detail. Keeping a gratitude journal helps rewire the brain, offsetting ruminations of negativity. The client becomes more attentive to their expectations and memories of events, creating a more balanced perspective.
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****ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS*** Are you confused, lost, hurting, just need a bit of direction, or only a safe place to vent? Please come see me. I'm here to help! I have worked with survivors of domestic violence, sexual abuse, or sexual assault; people struggling with substance abuse; and people with multiple mental health issues, such as grief and loss, major depression, bipolar disorder,...
( English | español ) WORK+STRESS+COVID=Always on high alert. Being the glue that holds everyone else together. Relying on instinct in order to keep afloat and wondering how long you can keep it up. Trying to convince yourself you’re okay. Toughen up. Isolated. Pressure. Anxiety just thinking about tomorrow. Hiding the stress from friends and family. You don't have to explain it to me, I...
Currently not accepting new patients for the next 3-4 weeks. If you struggle with persistent fears and worries that impact your life, or if it’s difficult to get motivated or stay focused on your goals, we can often feel stuck, frustrated or confused. Struggling with persistent thoughts and feelings can often sap our energy, but when we learn ways to work with our emotions, we can channel them ...
I provide a supportive, judgment-free space and facilitate developing new coping skills, awareness, self-discovery, growth, and healing. I believe in an individual and integrative approach; therefore, the tools and techniques will be different depending on your needs! Through collaboration and building a strong therapeutic relationship, we will be working towards achieving your desired goals an...
Lavonia Brown earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in December 2012 from Troy University. Lavonia obtained her Master of Science degree, in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, in December 2016 from Troy University. Lavonia has experience working with children, adolescents, and adults both on the individual and family level. These experiences also include being a Clinical Mental...
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As a generalist, Scott finds that he works from an integrative lens, naturally leaning towards a client-centered, strengths-based, and multicultural perspectives. Often, he likes to integrate aspects of Interpersonal Therapy, family systems, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral theories with the bio-psycho-social framework. With extensive college counseling center experience (15+ years), Sco...
I have a special heart to help people. I offer kind and compassionate therapy to help individuals, couples, families, teens, and children smooth out and overcome the bumps in life's path. I encourage, empower, and educate clients on using effective tools to help them on their journey through life. I am an experienced clinician and have been supporting individuals and families since 2002. I will...
I have a passion for working with anyone who would like to make positive changes in their life. I enjoy working with adolescents and young adults through significant transitional and developmental periods of their lives. Life goes through seasons and this can affect individuals emotionally and physically. Specifically, working with individuals throughout these trying times is my main passion. I...
*NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS AT THIS TIME. Whether you are seeking support for yourself or a parent taking the initiative to further support your child, I believe every person thrives in connection. The therapeutic relationship is a connective partnership where significant changes can begin. My goal is to hold space for my courageous client’s to do vulnerable work to face themselves. In our thera...
I am passionate about working alongside teens and adults who are exploring and understanding who they are. I am also proud to be an LGBTQIA+ Affirmative, sex-positive therapist and I'm here to support and guide you in exploring your gender identity and sexual orientation! When we don’t know who we are, we experience a lot of mental and physical distress. This turns into depression, anxiety, moo...
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I am a licensed psychologist in Princeton/Montclair New Jersey and New York State working with children/adolescents, adults, families, and college students. Psychological services for the treatment of anxiety, depression, specialized trauma informed psychotherapy services, strategies for promoting resilience, interpersonal psychotherapy for relationship issues, and stage of life/identity issues...
Perhaps no one can ever inhabit fully the lived experience of another, nor would I presume that I could know it, yet our therapeutic relationship can—without disrespecting the integrity of your lived experience—present the opportunity to take your perspective. I hope to imagine your experience because, as Carl Jung articulates: “Loneliness does not come from having no people around you but from...
