INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

People wonder whether they are experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, etc.  These emotional expressions are merely signs that something in your life is off balance.  The important thing is whether or not you are satisfied with the way things are going.  You may be satisfied with particular areas in your life, but not with others.  Therapy will guide you in knowing how to become more satisfied.  I have experience working with a wide range of issues:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Stress
• Sexuality
• Anger
• Domestic Violence
• Sexual Abuse
• PTSD
• Relationship Issues
• Life Definition/Existential
• Issues with work and career
• Food Related Problems/Body Image
• Bereavement
• Divorce/Marriage/Blending Families
• Attention Deficit
• Impulsivity

COUPLE THERAPY

A couple relationship most often faces many challenges.  Couple’s therapy helps couples navigate and overcome these challenges. Sometimes these challenges involve working with the couple together on issues such as communication, negotiation, expectations vs. reality, parenting, sexuality, infidelity, etc.  Other times, it requires individual therapy in order to address issues that are set apart from the couple (e.g. previous abuse, family of origin, self-actualization, etc.).    The goal in couple’s therapy is to strengthen the bond that hold the couple together.  However, at other times, it involves helping the couple navigate a healthy separation.  The therapist’s role is simply to guide the couple to become aware of the issues influencing the challenges involved, regardless of the outcome. Common challenges for couples are:

• Infidelity
• Divorce/Blending Families/Co-Parenting
• Sexuality
• Child rearing
• Role Transitions
• Anger
• Abuse
• Finances
• Infertility

FAMILY THERAPY

We often want to treat an individual without understanding that the individual exists within a group of other people.  The group can be a nation-state, community, or a family.  The family unit is a particular powerful entity in its influence on individual behavior.  When one person, especially a child, comes in to therapy, treatment may involve treating the family as well as the individual.  The problems that we attribute to the individual most often are reflective of problems within the family. If an adolescent is referred because they are stealing, for example, it would be natural to think that the behavior is an individual problem when in fact the stealing may be resulting from a strained relationship between the adults and the adolescent.  The family unit can be treated without having the entire family present in therapy.

SUPERVISION FOR THERAPISTS

I have extensive experience as a supervisor.  I am currently an AAMFT Approved Supervisor Candidate. My fee for supervision depends on your financial situation and my availability.

INSURANCE

Your insurance provider should provide you with information regarding submitting re-imbursement requests for out-of-network providers.  I can provide you with the receipts needed to submit to your insurance company.  Fees are to be paid after each  session.

I can take payment in form of cash and checks.  Each session, with the exception of the initial session, is 45 minutes in length. The initial session typically runs up to 1.5 hours.

LANGUAGES

I am fluent in Spanish and can provide services in English and/or Spanish, whichever is your preference.

ONLINE THERAPY

If you wish to schedule a telephone, IM, Skype, or email session with me please send me an email to garciawestberg@yahoo.com.

Face to Face Sessions:  70.00 for 50 minute sessions.

Online Therapy:  45.00 for 50 minute sessions.

PLEASE CALL  (203)-903-3145; (917)-725-2053 OR EMAIL (garciawestberg@yahoo.com) FOR AN APPOINTMENT