Serving The Entire Lehigh Valley Since 1980
Serving The Entire Lehigh Valley Since 1980
Serving The Entire Lehigh Valley Since 1980
Psychological Counseling in Bethlehem, PA.
Psychological Counseling Services, based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
specializes in individual and group counseling for issues ranging from relationships and parenting to depression, anxiety and trauma. We can also help with marriage issues, a dysfunctional family, spiritual crisis, women's issues, and stress management.
Psychological Counseling in Bethlehem, PA.
Psychological Counseling Services, based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
specializes in individual and group counseling for issues ranging from relationships and parenting to depression, anxiety and trauma. We can also help with marriage issues, a dysfunctional family, spiritual crisis, women's issues, and stress management.
About Us
Specifically, some counselors only use a cognitive-behavioral approach, meaning they focus on how your behavior is shaped by how you think. Some use only a psychoanalytic approach, meaning they focus on your non-conscious inner pain and thoughts but do not offer advice about how then to change your life as a result of facing those inner demons. They do not offer direct solutions to problems. Still others use only an interpersonal method, meaning they focus on changing patterns in your relationship, but not on the underlying forces that drive those patterns.
We combine the methods to maximize our results, emphasizing one method over another to fit the problem. Usually, problems require multiple methods seamlessly integrated together to produce permanent results. We often see clients for second opinions and who have been frustrated with other counseling that has not solved their problems.
Patients come to us for a wide range of problems: anxiety, depression, parenting difficulties, relationship difficulties, women's issues, existential and spiritual crises, and trauma--including childhood, rape, and war trauma.
About Us
Specifically, some counselors only use a cognitive-behavioral approach, meaning they focus on how your behavior is shaped by how you think. Some use only a psychoanalytic approach, meaning they focus on your non-conscious inner pain and thoughts but do not offer advice about how then to change your life as a result of facing those inner demons. They do not offer direct solutions to problems. Still others use only an interpersonal method, meaning they focus on changing patterns in your relationship, but not on the underlying forces that drive those patterns.
We combine the methods to maximize our results, emphasizing one method over another to fit the problem. Usually, problems require multiple methods seamlessly integrated together to produce permanent results. We often see clients for second opinions and who have been frustrated with other counseling that has not solved their problems.
Patients come to us for a wide range of problems: anxiety, depression, parenting difficulties, relationship difficulties, women's issues, existential and spiritual crises, and trauma--including childhood, rape, and war trauma.
About the past: We absolutely deal with the past---but we deal with the past ONLY when the past holds you back from moving forward. When the past does hold you back, we go after the non-conscious memories that create the inner forces that hold you back from changing. Treatment will go back and forth from your past to the present to unfreeze you, so you can move ahead. We move ahead as fast as you choose to change.
We also set up recommendations or "homework" between consultations as a win-win strategy. If we agree on a recommendation—that the homework is wise to do in order to develop the skills to solve the problem—and you succeed in following through on it, we obviously win, because you are developing the necessary skills.
If you fail to follow through on the homework, we then go after the forces inside you that held you back from completing the homework. We restructure those forces so you can follow through on the homework. In this "win-win" strategy, we rock back and forth between following through on homework and what holds you back from following through until you are able to solve the problem. The only way we lose is if you decide to stop dealing with the problem or if we are simply not discerning enough to see what is happening. This method, with you permission, is built into your counseling protocol.
A final thought: Our Mission is to solve the life problem for which you come. In doing so, we take seriously that we are here to serve you; you are not here to serve us. Did you ever get the feeling with a professional--be it doctor, lawyer, or psychologist--that somehow you were there to serve him or her? We are here to serve your need, so we go over your problem explicitly, and agree on a game plan for dealing with it. Further, all the therapeutic methods we use to solve your problem are used only with your permission. Where we head together and how we plan to get there to solve your problem has to make sense to you. The therapeutic relationship is your tool to create more of the life you choose.
About the past: We absolutely deal with the past---but we deal with the past ONLY when the past holds you back from moving forward. When the past does hold you back, we go after the non-conscious memories that create the inner forces that hold you back from changing. Treatment will go back and forth from your past to the present to unfreeze you, so you can move ahead. We move ahead as fast as you choose to change.
We also set up recommendations or "homework" between consultations as a win-win strategy. If we agree on a recommendation—that the homework is wise to do in order to develop the skills to solve the problem—and you succeed in following through on it, we obviously win, because you are developing the necessary skills.
If you fail to follow through on the homework, we then go after the forces inside you that held you back from completing the homework. We restructure those forces so you can follow through on the homework. In this "win-win" strategy, we rock back and forth between following through on homework and what holds you back from following through until you are able to solve the problem. The only way we lose is if you decide to stop dealing with the problem or if we are simply not discerning enough to see what is happening. This method, with you permission, is built into your counseling protocol.
A final thought: Our Mission is to solve the life problem for which you come. In doing so, we take seriously that we are here to serve you; you are not here to serve us. Did you ever get the feeling with a professional--be it doctor, lawyer, or psychologist--that somehow you were there to serve him or her? We are here to serve your need, so we go over your problem explicitly, and agree on a game plan for dealing with it. Further, all the therapeutic methods we use to solve your problem are used only with your permission. Where we head together and how we plan to get there to solve your problem has to make sense to you. The therapeutic relationship is your tool to create more of the life you choose.
About the past: We absolutely deal with the past---but we deal with the past ONLY when the past holds you back from moving forward. When the past does hold you back, we go after the non-conscious memories that create the inner forces that hold you back from changing. Treatment will go back and forth from your past to the present to unfreeze you, so you can move ahead. We move ahead as fast as you choose to change.
We also set up recommendations or "homework" between consultations as a win-win strategy. If we agree on a recommendation—that the homework is wise to do in order to develop the skills to solve the problem—and you succeed in following through on it, we obviously win, because you are developing the necessary skills.
If you fail to follow through on the homework, we then go after the forces inside you that held you back from completing the homework. We restructure those forces so you can follow through on the homework. In this "win-win" strategy, we rock back and forth between following through on homework and what holds you back from following through until you are able to solve the problem. The only way we lose is if you decide to stop dealing with the problem or if we are simply not discerning enough to see what is happening. This method, with you permission, is built into your counseling protocol.
A final thought: Our Mission is to solve the life problem for which you come. In doing so, we take seriously that we are here to serve you; you are not here to serve us. Did you ever get the feeling with a professional--be it doctor, lawyer, or psychologist--that somehow you were there to serve him or her? We are here to serve your need, so we go over your problem explicitly, and agree on a game plan for dealing with it. Further, all the therapeutic methods we use to solve your problem are used only with your permission. Where we head together and how we plan to get there to solve your problem has to make sense to you. The therapeutic relationship is your tool to create more of the life you choose.
Schedule an appointment today and learn more about the benefits that
psychological counseling may have for you in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Associations:
American Psychotherapy Association; Pennsylvania Psychological Association; American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
Board Licensed Psychologist; Clinical Fellow with American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT)
Fellow, American Psychotherapy Association
Schedule an appointment
today and learn more about the benefits that
psychological counseling may have for you in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Associations:
American Psychotherapy Association; Pennsylvania Psychological Association; American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
Board Licensed Psychologist; Clinical Fellow with American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT)
Fellow, American Psychotherapy Association
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