Issues Commonly Encountered in My Practice:

• Relationship problems
• Severe depression  
• Acute anxiety, phobias, excessive guilt
• Adjustment to divorce and loneliness
• Marital conflict or divorce
• Loss of loved one, child/parent/spouse 
• Mental illness, Bipolar disorder 
• Emotional problems related to illness  
• Unresolved feelings about parents 
• Child abuse (victims and abusers) 
• Lack of self esteem 
• Excessive anger and outbursts 
• Recovering alcoholics 
• Poor impulse control 
• Loss of faith after a loss or tragedy
• Aftercare for patients who have been  
   hospitalized or have severe illness
• Retirement and or job loss

 

 

Group

Group members learn that it is not necessary to take action in the presence of intense feelings, but rather to process and understand these feelings and make a conscious choice to act or not act. Emphasis is on the "here and now," (Yalom) (i.e. what individuals in the group are thinking and feeling about one another rather than talking about outside relationships or problems) Honest and spontaneous feedback is encouraged as well as individuals saying how they are being impacted by the other person.
   
Almost immediately group members begin to have the same problems and feelings toward one another, as they have in relationships outside the group.
   
This means that the group provides a "live laboratory," (Yalom) in which individuals make significant behavior and character changes as well as changes in perception. With this model group members can see what their problems are, and can receive feedback on how to change.



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Email: miriam@mstephan.com


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