People consider psychotherapy for lots of reasons:

• Couple, partner, marriage or relationship difficulties
• Life events, including death of a loved one, divorce, serious   illness, aging parents or outplacement
• Good times like marriage, a new child, children leaving home,   falling in love
• Depression or anxiety that doesn't go away in a reasonable   amount of time
• Stress at work, home or school that feels overwhelming
• Problems with drugs and/or alcohol
• Loneliness
• Chronic worry, preoccupation, confusion or disorientation
• Excessive anger, frustration or problems with physical abuse
• Self-destructive or self-defeating behaviors
• Trouble communicating with others
• Trouble making or keeping satisfying relationships
• Job & career issues
• Panic attacks or severe fears, such as fear of going out of the   house, that interfere with daily functioning
• Issues of sexuality, sexual identity or sexual orientation
• Family issues like parent-child communication, solving   problems with teenagers, step-family, blended family,   alternative family, single parenting, adoption
• Children's emotional and behavioral problems
• Personal growth and self help

If you'd like to change the world, change yourself. The Talmud says, "We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are." I'm sure you've tried a number of different approaches to changing your life. Some of them worked didn't they? Some of them didn't work did they? Psychotherapy from Getting Along, Inc. can help you with the changes you haven't accomplished on your own.

A better name than psychotherapist would be "life enhancement specialist." That's really what I do. People consult a therapist to enhance their life. If you're like most people, you strive to enhance many areas of your life. If you spend time and money on yourself physically with exercise and medical care, mentally by education, then why not improve emotionally too?! The quality of your life can be measured by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your relationships depends on your emotional health. Psychotherapy, or counseling, can improve your emotional health improving your relationships and the quality of your life. Think of me as an emotional personal trainer.

Maybe you've heard of psychotherapy and believed it was for people with "real problems." Psychotherapy is effective with common, everyday situations. If you'd like to live a more peaceful, less hurried life, psychotherapy can help. If you want to communicate more effectively with loved ones and ones not so loved, psychotherapy can help. If you would like to feel closer to family members, psychotherapy can help.

If you want a better financial life, psychotherapy can help. If you want to enhance your abilities participating in sports, psychotherapy can help. If you want to achieve more intimacy in your loving relationships...you guessed it, psychotherapy can help!!

Typical clients come to Getting Along, Inc. to improve their lives in many different areas including relationships of all kinds, overcoming addictions, mid-life issues, to be better athletes, end of life issues, learning to cope better with any of life's difficulties such as illness, finding meaning in life, transitions and decision making. I see people in all phases of their relationships from pre-commitment to divorce and beyond

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
- Leo Buscaglia