For some people, the decision to begin therapy comes after realizing their lives are not going the way they want them to.
Perhaps this awareness comes as a result of a particular crisis, like losing a job, or ending a relationship. For other people, it is just a sense that they are not in control of their lives. Or that they are holding themselves back from enjoying life more fully. Perhaps they realize that something that happened at some earlier time keeps limiting the quality of life today.
My responsibility as a therapist is to ask what you want therapy to do for you -- what you would like to change in your life -- to listen and formulate a treatment approach that will meet these needs, whether it means individual, couples, group or family therapy, on either a short term or long term basis.
In addition to providing general counseling and psychotherapy for issues such as anxiety, depression and loneliness, I have worked with people seeking help for:
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Drugging / Drinking Sexual orientation
Relationships / Intimacy Self esteem
Phobias Job related issues
Parenting Bereavement
Victims of crime, disasters, accidents, and sexual
assault -- PTSD
______What you might do in therapy______
* Explore your fears.
* Break down your goals into manageable step.
* Use your dreams to understand yourself better.
* Explore your spirituality.
* Use your memories to better understand your past.
* Talk about your family history and other individual influences in your life.
______What you may get from therapy______
* Free yourself from old patterns that have trapped you.
* Learn to trust yourself.
* Learn to explore new ways of being.
* Learn to take better care of yourself.
* Know what makes you feel good and learn how to have
fun.
* Learn how to let others know what you want and need
from them.
* Become more aware of your feelings and how they
function in your life.
* Learn how to be accountable for your own actions.
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For more information or to make an appointment,
call 212-254-5399
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Location: The office is conveniently located on the corner of 14th Street and Broadway at Union Square, and is easily accessible by subway and bus.
___________________________________________________Sue E. Keown, LCSW, CASAC, M.Ed.
853 Broadway, Suite 901
New York, NY 10003
Tele: 212-254-5399
Email: Sue.Keown@gmail.com
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Updated: October 1, 2008