Issues
Expertise Areas
Not only do I treat common personal problems associated with anxiety, stress, and depression, but I also offer specific expertise in areas such as:
Addictions
Any psychological or physiological overdependence of an organism on a drug.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
An anxiety disorder that emerges following a psychologically distressing, traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a bad accident, war or rape.
Psychosomatic disorders
A general label used for any disorder with somatic (bodily) manifestations that are assumed to have at least a partial cognitive and emotional origin, i.e. that are to some degree psychological.
Mood disorders
Mood disorders involve disabling disturbances in emotion – from the extreme sadness and disengagement of depression to the extreme elation and irritability of mania (major depression, dysthymic disorder, bipolar disorder.
Anger management
Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems—problems at work, in your personal relationships, and in the overall quality of your life. And it can make you feel as though you’re at the mercy of an unpredictable and powerful emotion.
Relational problems
A loose term for difficulties in a relationship that are sufficiently serious to become the focus of clinical attention.
Anxiety
Most generally, a vague, unpleasant emotional state with qualities of apprehension, dread, distress and uneasiness. Anxiety is frequently distinguished from fear by its being often objectless, whereas fear assumes a specific feared object, person or event.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
A subclass of anxiety disorders with two essential characteristics: recurrent and persistent thoughts, ideas and feelings; and repetitive, ritualized behaviours. Attempts to resist a compulsion produce mounting tension and anxiety, which are relieved immediately by giving in to it.
Sexual abuse
Sexual mistreatment of another person. As the term is used it virtually always refers to the abuse of a child by an adult (recent or past).
Bereavement counseling
The emotional reactions felt following the death of a loved one. A full depressive syndrome is considered normal in the case of such a loss and is often accompanied by poor appetite, insomnia and preoccupations with a sense of worthlessness.
Panic attack
A discrete period of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by various symptoms which may include shortness of breath, dizziness, palpitations, trembling, sweating, nausea and often a fear that one is going crazy. The attacks are initially unexpected and typically last no longer that 15 minutes.
Sexual Disorders
An umbrella psychiatric category covering all disorders of sexual behavior and function, including the paraphilias (exhibitionism, fetishism, masochism, transvestic fetishism, voyeurism) and the sexual dysfunctions.
