Paula Mandel is a Psychologist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include Coping Skills, Divorce, Eating Disorders, Emotional Disturbance, Family Conflict, Men's Issues, Parenting, Peer Relationships, Self Esteem, and Women's Issues. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
I’ve been in practice for over 25 years, helping people who are struggling with depression, anxiety, relationship issues, and a range of other difficulties. I work from an integrative psychoanalytic perspective. This means that we work together to understand in a deep way the painful patterns that hold you back and where efforts to shield yourself from pain create more problems. We attend to your thoughts and feelings in the moment, which is in many ways like a mindfulness practice, aimed at enlarging acceptance of the known and as yet unknown parts of yourself. Exploration of your inner life helps to remove obstacles in the way of experiencing more joy and less pain. Finding words for your feelings in a trusting therapeutic relationship mitigates the shame that keeps problems fixed and frightening. We face these issues straightforwardly, but with humor, and with compassion. With nurturing attention to their inner life, many clients regain the ability to experience compassion towards t