Shirley Mattfeld is a Therapist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include ADD and ADHD, Anger Management, Behavioral Issues, Coping Skills, Emotional Disturbance, Family Conflict, Parenting, Peer Relationships, School Issues, and Self Esteem. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
My practice focuses on working with adolescents, adults and families who are struggling and want to make changes in their lives and relationships. My training and experience has produced an approach that emphasizes clients’ strengths and builds on positive behaviors and patterns to produce changes that match to them and to their life circumstances. Therapy provides a safe environment to explore, to expand and practice adaptive skills and strategies, and to learn how to maintain these skills and strategies. In the process behaviors and patterns can shift in ways that produce more rewarding interactions and success in moving lives in more satisfying directions. Much of my practice has revolved around adolescents – either working with them individually or with their parents and/or entire families – . Often these clients have been difficult to engage, and I have used a variety of approaches to get them to be more positive about the therapeutic process and more actively interested in making