Kenneth E Gardner is a Therapist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include ADD and ADHD, Anger Management, Divorce, Emotional Disturbance, Family Conflict, Men's Issues, Peer Relationships, Relationship Issues, Spirituality, and Stress. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
My objective is to help you understand how contributing factors such as family dynamics, developmental influences and community resources shape your responses. Together we will identify manipulative, exploitative interactions and their underlying intentions, and learn to develop appropriate social skills. I will model and reinforce behaviors for getting needs met appropriately. We will identify how you are affected by the behavior of others, and how others are affected by your behavior. My intention/aim is to improve your communication skills while encouraging appropriate expression of thoughts, feelings, and bodily responses, in order to improve your insight and increase your understanding of the relationship between actions and consequences. The overall goal is to help you effectively problem solve. I listen, validate, reflect, and simplify the ability to see alternatives and new possibilities. In my practice I assist with clarification by giving understandable/logical/direct/concise