Michael Gerber is a Therapist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include ADD and ADHD, Adoption, Anger Management, Anxiety, Behavioral Issues, Coping Skills, Depression, Men's Issues, Peer Relationships, and Spirituality. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
While I am skilled in working with a wide variety of clients, I most enjoy working with children, teens and adults who struggle with authority figures and themselves. I enjoy helping clients learn to know they are loved and heard. They often feel like they do not have a voice and they rebel because it has been more successful then being respectful to authority figures. The goals for the client would be learning to manage and express their feelings while learning to be respectful to one self and then respectful to others. The child’s parents would learn and use positive parenting skills to help instill child’s goals. I use both directive play therapy where I guide activities to help play out certain issues and emotions; and non-directive play therapy to allow the client to choose and then play to work with the issues at hand. Also I teach positive parenting skills to the parents that will help their loved one by providing models, structure and rewarding the positives. I strive to show m