Christopher R Dumas is a Therapist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include Anxiety, Depression, Divorce, Emotional Disturbance, Men's Issues, Narcissistic Personality, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Stress, and Teen Violence. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
I have worked in the mental health field for over 20 years and licensed in Connecticut as a Marriage and Family Therapist since 2000. I specialize in adult and adolescent individual and family counseling and I have worked in Manchester, CT community and surrounding towns for years. I have extensive training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, or DBT, a highly effective treatment model used by quality programs around the world. I also use Schema Therapy which targets the unhealthy, self-sabotaging, and destructive thoughts and behaviors we carry with us into adulthood that have outlived their usefulness and tend to persistently result in sustained misery. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a therapy designed to help people change patterns of behavior that are not helpful. DBT assumes that people are doing the best they can but are either lacking the skills or influenced by positive or negative reinforcement that interfere with their ability to function appropriately. My goal is to off