Psychotherapy
Discovering and Understanding Yourself
  t New England Holistic Health Center we see clients not as isolated
individuals, but as parts of families, various social networks, and
diverse cultures. We will help you function optimally within your
existing context, joining with you to resolve marital or other
family conflict.
If you are feeling anxious or depressed, or find yourself using
alcohol or anything else to excess, we can help you determine why
and what to do about it.
We all need practical solutions to difficult problems we are
experiencing right now.
We teach parents how to parent successfully during and after a
divorce. Children, too, face many challenges. We believe that by
helping our children and adolescents improve their self-esteem,
express feelings, and mange stress, we are teaching skills they can
turn to in adulthood.
Our therapists are trained in diagnosis, assessment, and treatment.
We match our understanding and effectiveness with care and
compassion administered in a trusting, safe atmosphere.
Individual Psychotherapy
 ometimes
talking to friends is not enough. You need an unbiased trained
professional who will keep what you say absolutely confidential. The
answers you need are deep inside of you, but you just can’t get to
them. You may come in for a few sessions to know what you need to
do-or the problem may be complex and take longer. We utilize
solution focused psychotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy and
family of origin work.
Marital and Family Therapy
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at New England Holistic Health Center we value family and respect
the many diverse types of family settings. our clients live in. With
a 50% divorce rate in this country, there is now no longer a typical
nuclear family with a stay-at-home mother, father and 2.2 children,
as there was in the 1950’s. Present day media reflects this trend
with TV shows like Will and Grace, Judging Amy and Friends. Families
are now defined by people who live together and provide mutual love,
respect and support. Single parent families, blended families, and
cohabitating heterosexual or lesbian/gay couples all benefit from
marital and family therapy. The licensed marriage and family
therapists on our staff are specially trained to help couples and
families improve communication, develop intimacy and relate and grow
in positive healthy ways. We also provide assistance in positive
parenting and will work you and your child to resolve school
difficulties. Sometimes kids and teenagers need their own therapists
or “feeling doctors” as we are sometimes referred to. Whether they
are having problems adjusting to a divorce, attention deficit
disorder, or a broken heart from their first relationship break up,
we will provide them with a safe, confidential setting kid-friendly
environment to work their feelings out in.
Group Therapy
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offer twelve week coed psychotherapy groups with between six and
eight members. Topics range from career issues, relationship
problems, anxiety, depression and stress management. Many people who
have attended these groups state they have helped them tremendously
and they no longer feel isolated and alone in their problems.
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 n a longitudinal study of a community of
adolescents, 13% became depressed between the ages of 14 and 16.
These adolescents, both boys and girls, were at significantly
increased risk of later major depression, anxiety disorders,
nicotine dependence, alcohol abuse or dependence, suicide attempt,
educational underachievement, unemployment, and early parenthood.
These associations were similar for girls and boys. Two major
pathways linking early depression to later outcomes were identified.
The first was a direct link and the second was explained by
confounding social, familial, and individual factors.
—Fergusson, D.M.,
& Woodward, L.J., “Mental health, educational, and social role
outcomes of adolescents with depression.” (2002), Archives of General Psychiatry, 59,
225-231.
 esearch on
older populations found that patients over age 60
had better social adjustment when their depression was treated with
both anti-depressants and psychotherapy, when compared to either
intervention alone.
—Lenze, E.J. et al., “Combined pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy as maintenance treatment
for late-life depression: Effects on social adjustment,” American Journal of
Psychiatry, 159, 466-468.
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