Contact Ellen at
415-454-7155
Ellen specializes in helping individuals (21 and over) and couples with depression, anxiety and relationship issues.
- Understand how your thoughts, behaviors, and social interactions impact your mood.
- Learn to challenge your negative beliefs about yourself, others and the world at large.
- Learn to stop catastrophizing and to remember that difficult moments do pass.
- Learn and practice tools to tolerate distress without falling apart.
- Learn specific techniques to lessen the frequency and intensity of troublesome symptoms, i.e. mood problems/depression, fears, phobias, social anxiety, panic.
- Pursue activities that provide meaning, pleasure, balance, and enhanced well being.
With couples, Ellen teaches practical skills using CBT and other evidence-based treatments to:
- Improve communication and thus, each partner's understanding of the other.
- Teach partners how to empathize with one another. Empathy is practiced in sessions and homework is given outside of sessions to help couples to nurture their relationships.
- Learn tools to negotiate and compromise without resentment.
- Learn to forgive and repair the relationship.
Ellen also specializes in work-life balance/enhancing well being, coping with chronic illness, grief/loss, and CBT treatment for weight loss (www.thoughtfulweightloss.com) and for insomnia.
Learning these tools are key to living a happier life. Often in less than 20 visits, clients are feeling better; their work and social functioning are improved.
Contact Ellen today for more information. |
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