Services offered
Bob offers all the following services:
- Individual Counseling
- Couples Counseling
- Family Counseling
- Group Counseling - weekly Men's group. Click here to see/download a flyer.
I have been licensed to practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, License #LMFT 37137, since September 8, 2000. The focus of my practice is my work with individuals, couples, adolescent boys, families, men’s issues and issues related to addiction. I am also a trained practitioner of Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR).
Psychological services that make up psychotherapy are not easily described in general statements. Psychotherapy is a process in which the therapist and patient discuss myriad issues, events, experiences and memories for the purpose of creating positive change in the patient's life. Psychotherapy provides an opportunity for a deeper personal understanding, as well as the problems or difficulties the patient may be experiencing.
Psychotherapy is not like a typical visit to a medical doctor, but involves a joint effort between the patient and therapist. One of the purposes of long-term, intensive psychotherapy is to allow your past emotional patterns to emerge and to be understood as they affect current relationships, particularly the therapeutic relationship. If there is the possibility that early or deep trauma of any kind affected your development, then as a part of your therapy you may need to review and/or to re-experience the feelings, memories and emotions that were attached to that trauma.
Progress and success may vary depending upon the particular problems or issues being addressed, as well as many other factors. In order for the therapy to be most successful, the patient may have to work independently on issues, patterns and themes identified and discussed during the sessions.
Psychotherapy can have benefits and risks. The benefits may include, but are not limited to, reduced stress and anxiety, increased flexibility in problem solving, and decreasing negative thoughts and self-sabotaging behaviors, improved interpersonal relationships, increased ease in social, work and family settings, increased capacity for intimacy, and increased self-confidence. These benefits often require substantial effort on the part of the patient, including active participation in the therapeutic process, honesty, and a willingness to change feelings, thoughts and behaviors.
Since therapy often involves discussing unpleasant aspects of your life, you may experience uncomfortable feelings like sadness, guilt, anger, frustration, loneliness, and helplessness and you may remember unpleasant events and feelings from the past. Experience with revived memories of early abuse, deprivation, and trauma indicates that these memories can be confusing, frightening, and/ or upsetting. Experience also suggests that early memories are not usually recorded only in ordinary recollections, pictures of the events, or stories, but in the ways we experience relationships and in various muscles and tissues of our bodies. Thus, when these memories emerge in the here and now to be looked at they may manifest in the ways you experience your therapist and/or the ways you experience your body and mind in reaction to therapy or to the therapeutic relationship.
In addition, part of the therapeutic process often involves the therapist challenging the patient's perceptions and assumptions, and offering different perspectives. As a result, some patients may experience feeling worse before they feel better. Psychotherapy is a process.
Psychological services that make up psychotherapy are not easily described in general statements. Psychotherapy is a process in which the therapist and patient discuss myriad issues, events, experiences and memories for the purpose of creating positive change in the patient's life. Psychotherapy provides an opportunity for a deeper personal understanding, as well as the problems or difficulties the patient may be experiencing.
Psychotherapy is not like a typical visit to a medical doctor, but involves a joint effort between the patient and therapist. One of the purposes of long-term, intensive psychotherapy is to allow your past emotional patterns to emerge and to be understood as they affect current relationships, particularly the therapeutic relationship. If there is the possibility that early or deep trauma of any kind affected your development, then as a part of your therapy you may need to review and/or to re-experience the feelings, memories and emotions that were attached to that trauma.
Progress and success may vary depending upon the particular problems or issues being addressed, as well as many other factors. In order for the therapy to be most successful, the patient may have to work independently on issues, patterns and themes identified and discussed during the sessions.
Psychotherapy can have benefits and risks. The benefits may include, but are not limited to, reduced stress and anxiety, increased flexibility in problem solving, and decreasing negative thoughts and self-sabotaging behaviors, improved interpersonal relationships, increased ease in social, work and family settings, increased capacity for intimacy, and increased self-confidence. These benefits often require substantial effort on the part of the patient, including active participation in the therapeutic process, honesty, and a willingness to change feelings, thoughts and behaviors.
Since therapy often involves discussing unpleasant aspects of your life, you may experience uncomfortable feelings like sadness, guilt, anger, frustration, loneliness, and helplessness and you may remember unpleasant events and feelings from the past. Experience with revived memories of early abuse, deprivation, and trauma indicates that these memories can be confusing, frightening, and/ or upsetting. Experience also suggests that early memories are not usually recorded only in ordinary recollections, pictures of the events, or stories, but in the ways we experience relationships and in various muscles and tissues of our bodies. Thus, when these memories emerge in the here and now to be looked at they may manifest in the ways you experience your therapist and/or the ways you experience your body and mind in reaction to therapy or to the therapeutic relationship.
In addition, part of the therapeutic process often involves the therapist challenging the patient's perceptions and assumptions, and offering different perspectives. As a result, some patients may experience feeling worse before they feel better. Psychotherapy is a process.
For more information, please call 707-544-7000.