Areas of Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Adult ADHD Screening/Diagnosis
Compulsive Hoarding and Clutter
Trichotillomania (hairpulling) or Skinpicking
- Understand how your automatic thoughts raise anxiety
- Learn coping strategies to lower anxiety
- Learn to act despite feeling anxious
- Learn assertiveness skills
- Improve self-esteem
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Become better organized
- Learn how to break tasks into manageable steps
- Improve initiation and follow-through on tasks
- Learn to give yourself credit for accomplishments
- Learn to stop self-critical messages
- Improve your communication skills
Adult ADHD Screening/Diagnosis
- Initial assessment for adult ADHD
- Referrals to psychiatrists for further assessment or medication as needed
- Referrals to psychologists or learning specialists if in-depth psychological or academic testing is required
- Education about the treatment components for ADHD
Compulsive Hoarding and Clutter
- Understand factors which make you vulnerable to hoarding and acquiring
- Learn specific skills to reduce clutter and hoarding
- Learn organizational techniques
- Learn self-talk that can reinforce getting your needs met without hoarding and acquiring
- Reduce clutter
- Learn how your negative thoughts influence your feelings and behavior
- Develop support systems
- Identify triggers to depressed mood
- Improve self esteem
- Develop coping methods to improve your mood
- Learn behavioral techniques to get a better night’s sleep
- Learn how sleep hygiene guidelines can help you
- Use cognitive behavioral techniques to reduce your worries about sleeping
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Understand how your obsessions and/or rituals affect you
- Learn how to deal with your intrusive thoughts and impulses
- Develop a hierarchy that helps you face your fears at your pace
- Use exposure and response prevention to regain control of your life
- Recognize and understand panic attacks and their physical and psychological effects
- Learn relaxation and breathing techniques
- Learn techniques that help you stop avoiding feared situations
- Learn to recognize triggers to panic and strategies to deal with them
- Learn to identify thoughts that hold you back from social interactions
- Use coping strategies to counteract those thoughts
- Learn to face the social situations you fear
- Learn assertiveness skills
- Expand your choices in life
- Learn specialized techniques to deal with the challenging job of parenting a child with ADHD, learning disabilities, or behavior problems
- Learn how to adapt the methods to fit your family
- Use awareness training to determine what increases or decreases tics
- Understand premonitory urges that occur before tics
- Learn to better manage tics through competing responses and social support
Trichotillomania (hairpulling) or Skinpicking
- Determine what triggers your hairpulling or skinpicking
- Learn emotional self regulation techniques
- Use competing response training and/or fiddle toys to reduce pulling or picking