Concerns Addressed - Please suggest concerns to add to our list
March 19th, 2007 |Is there is a concern, problem, or issue which you treat in your therapy practice but are not finding in our list of concerns? If so, please feel free to suggest it to us so we will consider adding it to the list. We receive many requests to add concerns which are already listed (sometimes worded or phrased differently). Before making your suggestions please check the list of concerns on the search page by clicking here. You can make your suggestion by replying to this post in the reply box below. If you don’t see a reply box, Click here to make your suggestions. Please remember that your suggestions will be viewed publicly. Thanks for helping! Noah :)
March 26th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Request you consider individuals who have experienced Torture from war-like conditions, Ritual Sexual Abuse and also those dealing with Chronic Pain. Thank you for your consideration.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
PTSD–and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing would be good subjects to add to the list.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Hi Ron & Marita, Thanks for your suggestions. The list of concerns aims to focus on specific concerns rather than populations. I think we may create a way for consumers to search for a counselor by populations served. I’ll let you know if we do…. Until then please be aware that: 1. we include a number of the sympotms related to PTSD and sexual abuse. These concerns are already listed: Abuse, chronic pain, trauma. And CISD is listed as a model of therapy. Thanks, Noah :)
April 14th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Self Esteem, Confidence, Regression, Dream Analyis, Childbirth, Phobias.
April 15th, 2007 at 2:59 am
EMDR, Inner Child, PTSD, biofeedback, breathwork
April 16th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
obsessions
April 22nd, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Improve Sports Performance
School Academics
Pulled / Strained Muscles
Massages
Reiki Therapy
*All of which I am trained in.
April 22nd, 2007 at 4:14 pm
I would like to see the following:
Improve sports performance
Improve educational academics
Massage Therapy
Reiki Therapy
April 22nd, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Reiki Therapy, HypnoTherapy, Massage Therapy
May 18th, 2007 at 8:15 am
I would like Smoking Cessation to be listed.
May 27th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Bereavement issues
personality disorders
June 3rd, 2007 at 5:24 am
Midlife transitions, anger management
June 6th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Consider including bipolar. Mood disorders is often unclear to those experiencing bipolar. Thank you.
June 15th, 2007 at 6:59 am
Thanks to all of you above who posted suggestions. We’ll be updating our list this week with some of these. Noah :)
June 20th, 2007 at 4:46 am
I would like to see the following:
• Communication resolution & training
• Pychosexual education
• Adjunctive therapy for vulvar vestibulitis
• Vaginismus treatment
June 22nd, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Please consider the following:
Sex & Love Addiction,
Internet Pornography Addiction,
Sexual Anorexia,
Codependency Issues.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Since hypnotherapy (by someone certified by ASCH, for example) is such a powerful tool, your clients should know where they can attain that modality.
July 2nd, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Thanks to everyone who’s suggested additional concerns to add to our list! Today, 7/2/07 we’ve updated our list:
!Abuse Survivor Issues (Physical, Emotional, or Sexual)
Abandonment and/or Fear of
Academic Concerns
Addictions (Drug & Alcohol)
Addictions (Other)
Adjusting to Change
Adoption / Reunion Issues
Aggression
Anger
Anxiety
Attachment Issues
Batterer Intervention
Bereavement
Bipolar
Blended Family Issues
Career Choice
Child & Adolescent Issues
Chronic Pain
Codependency / Dependency
Communication Problems
Compulsions
Control Issues
Creative Blocks
Depression
Developmental Disorders (Autism, Aspergers, etc.)
Dissociation
Divorce / Divorce Adjustment
Domestic Violence
Eating & Food Issues
Emptiness
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Overwhelm
End-of-life Adjustment
Family Problems
Family of Origin Issues
Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, & Transgender Issues
Grief & Loss
Habits
Hyperactivity
Identity Issues
Impulsivity
Inadequacy
Inattention
Irritability
Isolation (Emotional & Social)
Learning Difficulties
Men’s Issues
Midlife Transition
Mood Disturbance
Mood Swings
Multicultural Concerns
Obsessions
Oppositional & Defiant Behavior
Parenting
Phobias / Fears
Physical or Terminal Illness
Post Partum Depression
Post Traumatic Stress
Prejudice / Discrimination
Relationships & Marriage
Reproduction, Pregnancy, & Birthing
Religion
Self-Confidence
Self-Criticism
Self-Doubt
Self-Esteem
Self-Harm (Cutting, etc.)
Sensitivity to Criticism
Sex / Sexuality
Shame
Spirituality
Stress
Suicidal (Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors)
Suspiciousness
Trauma
Trust Issues
Violence
Women’s Issues
Workplace Issues
Worry
Worthlessness
Other - not listed here
July 5th, 2007 at 9:27 am
suggest tobacco depedence/smoking be included in the list.
July 12th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
I suggest separating “child” and “adolescent” issues. I work with teens, but not with younger children and there’s no way to make this clear.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:58 am
You could add to your list of issues panic disorder with and without agorophobia
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:57 am
Hi!
I agree with the suggestion to separate child and adolescent…I too work with teens but not children.
I would also recommend adding post-concussional syndrome and cognitive dysfunction to the list.
July 26th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Forensic issues
July 26th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Meditation
Phobias
Hypnotherapy
July 27th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Love of Yourself and Others (I believe it is different than self esteem and/or couples sounseling)
July 29th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Spiritual Emergency
Kundalini Awakening
August 5th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
I suggest adding the following:
Geriatric Mental Health
Caregiver Issues/Stress
Life Transitions
Infertility Issues
Brain Injury/Dementia/Stroke
August 6th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Abortion or Post-Abortion issues
August 17th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Attention Deficit Disorder, Learning Disabilities, Psychoeducational Evaluations
August 19th, 2007 at 1:55 am
I would like to see Social Anxiety added to the list, as well as Agoraphobia. While they may both be considered covered by “Phobias,” they are distinct enough to warrant their own mention. The DSMIV catagorizes them separately in part because “phobias” tend to be seen as specific fears of particular things- height, closed in places, certain animals, fear of choking, etc. But these two catagories are each broad in their own respect.
August 19th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Please consider adding the following:
1. Neuropsychological testing
2. Psychological Testing
3. ADD/ADHD
4. Stroke/CVA/Brain Attack
5. Concussion/Post-Concussive Syndrome
6. Traumatic Brain Injury
7. Dementia
8. Alzheimer’s Disease
9. Other Neurological/Medical Disorders
August 20th, 2007 at 5:43 am
Forgiveness
Fitness Goals
Religious Abuse
Ministry Issues
Financial Counseling
Self Care
Time Management
August 25th, 2007 at 8:46 am
High school to college process- the search process including preparation of classwork, packages and how to apply, financial considerations, the athlete’s path of application procedure and associated family transitions.
August 27th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I second meditation. I also suggest adding fertility issues, perhaps to the existing category that mentions reproduction, pregnancy, birthing or as a separate one. Also pet loss.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:12 am
infidelity
August 29th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Affair Recovery
August 30th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Austism Spectrum Disorder/Asperger disorder
Infertility issues
September 15th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
I would like to see the following:
1) Forensic Services
2) Psychoeducational evaluations
3) Psychological evaluations
4) Psychosexual evaluations
September 17th, 2007 at 6:53 am
I would suggest a category of ’substance abuse’ in addition to but separate from addictions.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:49 am
emotional abuse category
September 25th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
As several folks have mentioned, Sex/Sexuality is far too broad.
You might want specific categories for:
Sex Therapy
Couples Sex Coaching
Sexual Dysfunction
in addition to the specific sexuality issues mentioned in previous posts.
September 26th, 2007 at 11:36 am
I would like to add:
Dream work
Values clarification
Life purpose/meaning
Inner guidance
September 26th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Dear GoodTherapy.org Members,
I’m writing to announce that we have just finished updating our list of concerns. We want to thank everyone for many excellent suggestions. We added over a dozen new separate categories and also tacked some terms onto preexisting ones. Below you will find the Updated list of Concerns as well as a list of every suggestion we received along with our team’s response.
Updated List of Concerns Addressed:
Abuse Survivor Issues
Abandonment and/or Fear of
Abortion / Post Abortion Issues
Academic Concerns
Addictions (Drug & Alcohol)
Addictions (Other)
Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
Adoption / Reunion Issues
Aggression
Agoraphobia
Anger
Anxiety
Attachment Issues
Batterer Intervention
Bereavement
Bipolar
Blended Family Issues
Career Choice
Caregiver Issues/Stress
Child and/or Adolescent Issues
Chronic Pain
Codependency / Dependency
Communication Problems
Compulsions
Control Issues
Creative Blocks
Depression
Developmental Disorders (Autism, Aspergers, etc.)
Dissociation
Divorce / Divorce Adjustment
Domestic Violence
Eating & Food Issues
Emptiness
Emotional Abuse
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Overwhelm
End-of-life Adjustment
Family Problems
Family of Origin Issues
Fertility Issues
Forgiveness
Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, & Transgender Issues
Geriatric Issues
Grief & Loss
Habits
Hyperactivity
Identity Issues
Impulsivity
Inadequacy
Inattention
Infidelity / Affair Recovery
Irritability
Isolation (Emotional & Social)
Learning Difficulties
Life Purpose/Meaning/Inner-Guidance
Men’s Issues
Midlife Transition
Mood Disturbance
Mood Swings
Multicultural Concerns
Obsessions
Oppositional & Defiant Behavior
Panic
Parenting
Phobias / Fears
Physical Abuse
Physical or Terminal Illness
Post Partum Depression
Post Traumatic Stress
Prejudice / Discrimination
Relationships & Marriage
Reproduction, Pregnancy, & Birthing
Religion
Self-Care
Self-Confidence
Self-Criticism
Self-Doubt
Self-Esteem
Self-Harm (Cutting, etc.)
Self-Love
Sensitivity to Criticism
Sex / Sexuality Issues
Sexual Abuse
Shame
Social Phobia/Anxiety
Spirituality
Stress
Suicidal (Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors)
Suspiciousness
Trauma
Trust Issues
Values Clarification
Violence
Women’s Issues
Workplace Issues
Worry
Worthlessness
Other - not listed here
September 30th, 2007 at 5:43 am
Hi,
Wish you’d add AD/HD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). I see you have some if the symptoms listed, but not the full disorder.
Terry Matlen, ACSW
http://www.addconsults.com
Admin: Hi Terry, Thanks for your concern. If you view the “list of concerns” which potential clients of therapy can search for a therapist by, you’ll see that we don’t frame these concerns in terms of diagnoses and disorders. This is in line with the philosophy of our site. If you need more information about this, check out some of our earlier posts about nonpathologizing therapy or email me directly and I’d be happy to elaborate.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:58 am
Please separate child vs adolescent counseling
Admin: Hi Deborah, thanks for the comment and the suggestion. Actually it is separated in the “age groups you work with” section. When you join GT you can select adults and children separately. And people who search our directory can search separately.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Clients sometimes present:
concerns about the nature or content of their dreaming
concerns about nightmares
concerns about night terrors
[THESE COULD SOMEHOW BE COMBINED]
The techniques of Dreamworking and Dream Interpretation are sidnificantly different. As a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, I use collaborative and cooperative methods which are called dreamworking. Dream Interpretation usually involves a presupposition that the analyst understands the dream and the dreamer does not. Dreamworking assumes the only person who can ever “own” or fully “know” the dream is the dreamer … and the therapist acts as a guide to help the process of finding the dream’s true meaning to the dreamer. I’d like to see these two categories be separated so that I wouldn’t be confused as an Interpreter.
I appreciate the nature of your site and I congratulate you on your insights in Alaska.
Admin: Thanks Sandy, We do include Dreamwork / Dream Analysis in our list of models. But because there are so many kinds of anxieties/fears and because we aim to keep our list of concerns as short as possible, we have not included nightmares or night terrors in our list of concerns. We’ll take a look at the list and consider it in our next update
October 5th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Premarital couples’ counseling
Admin: Hi Michelle, We include couple’s counseling in our list of counseling modes, but we don’t feel that premarital couples’ counseling is truly a separate mode which warrants a distinct category. Perhaps we could add premarital issues to our list of concerns. We’ll consider it in our next update.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Would it be possible to create another category known as “Workplace Stress”? It seems that enquiries often occur from potential clients who are requesting counselling /therapy for addressing stressors from within their corporate,career, or occupational settings. Such a classification would perhaps be somewhat more specific than “Workplace Issues”.
Thanks for your consideration,
David Wong, R. Psych.
Admin: Thanks David, Perhaps we could change the category to “Workplace Issues/Stress.” We’ll consider that in our next update.
October 13th, 2007 at 3:10 am
Christian Counseling
November 6th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Hi, I’m requesting you list Rape as a concern. One of my specializations is working with women who have experienced rape which unfortunately is a somewhat common experience that many women (and men) don’t get support for.
Thanks
November 10th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Sexual addictions would be a good add on
November 16th, 2007 at 5:39 am
Hi. As a body psychotherapist, I often see individuals who feel disconnected from their bodies and/or emotional experience. Perhaps you could include something like “body-mind split” as a category? (This might not be the best phrase, but it’s a place to start.)
Also, I second what Edna Healy suggested above about adding a rape category. I have worked with survivors of both rape and childhood sexual abuse, and I think rape survivors would appreciate having their issue listed specifically as well.
Last thought, I worry about these lists of concerns a bit, because most therapists deal with so many… I’d hate to see someone not call because I hadn’t checked their specific concern, thinking that I wouldn’t or couldn’t deal with it. And on the other hand, the list could become really, really, really long. And the longer it gets, the more I think it might suggest to potential clients that it is important for their therapist to have checked their specific concern. I’m not sure the best remedy for this, but maybe a few words with the list, to the effect that most therapists deal with a wide variety of issues, and not to worry if someone you are considering calling hasn’t checked your issue? Or perhaps encouragement to ask about it, if the therapist hasn’t checked it?
Thanks,
Jaffy
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:48 am
Meaning in life, work, love
Borderline personality
preoccupation with death
MODELS I use
Hypnotherapy within psychodynamic therapy
December 4th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
psychological and neuropsychological evaluations
December 5th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Please consider adding to your list of services:
Psychological Evaluations for Surrogate Mothers
Psychological Evaluations for Adoptions
Thank you.
December 8th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Issues of religious and spiritual life; values, guilt and shame;
also life cycle issues, the need to change
December 11th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Association of Labor Assistant (ALACE)
ALACE Certified Child Birth Educator and DOULA
December 11th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Hello, I’m concern is RAPE, I am a faciliator in overcoming rape using Hypnotherapy as a means of overcoming and desentizing the trauma of RAPE.
Also, I am an (ALACE) Association of Labor Assistant (DOULA), Child Birth Educator; I am eager to include Labor Assistant and Labor Educator as one your therapeutic models.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:47 am
How about infertility/fertility issues
December 16th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Transgender issues.
December 29th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I would like to see play / filial play therapy added to your list. Admin note: these are already included.
January 7th, 2008 at 11:02 am
I would like to suggest that co-parenting therapy and reunification therapy be added. These are services often required when divorces proceed through the court system.
I would also like to have Collaborative Divorce included. This is a particular model of working with divorcing couples on a team with attorneys as we help them to resolve their differences without going to court. It requires specific training and is capitalized for that reason.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
compulsive gambling
January 14th, 2008 at 10:24 am
I would like to see Premarital Counseling as a seperate category. I am trained to use the PREPARE/ENRICH instrument. This program has multiple inventories designed for Premarital couples, couples with or without children, cohabitating couples, marriage enrichment or marital counseling, and for couples over 50, or those going through life transitions such as retirement.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I also use the PREPARE/ENRICH program for pre-maritial and maritial counseling. Pre-maritial counseling is a specialized area of counseling clients may be seeking, and I encourage its’ addition in the listing of areas of concerns.
January 30th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Step-parenting would be a good issue to add to the list
June 16th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I think the site should include Sex Therapy
July 8th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Hi,
One of my most popular specialties is working with the individual adult, couple, and child (children) due to the loss of a beloved pet. I have provided grief support for the above as well as offering Pet Loss Bereavement Support Groups and workshops for the past three years. I was just wondering if this recognizably disenfranchised topic might be added to your list. Thank you for your consideration.
July 16th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Personal Relationship with Power
August 8th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Retirement meaning that retirement includes preparations before as well as adaptation to. Including work after retirement, lifestyle changes, etc.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
procrastination
September 10th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
perfectionism, excessively stringent standards
September 14th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
How about pet grief?
September 19th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
betrayal
optimism
happiness
trust
October 12th, 2008 at 9:20 am
disability/adjustment to disability
October 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hi - recently I have worked with several people who have been sexual abusers of some kind or another who have also been abused as children themselves. It may not be a popular topic but how about adding Sex Offender Treatment to your list? Thanks, Debbie Antari
October 31st, 2008 at 1:32 am
Many sex-offenders have been abused themselves…But not all sexually-molested persons become abusers. One of the real problems with the policy implications of the public desire to catch and stop offenders is the treatment of children who molest other children as if they are just like adults and will become offenders as adults. As a result of this “fictional belief,” many states require that teens who molest others be put on sexual offender lists (for life!).
A few facts to consider:
1. Adult-like programs based on a relapse prevention model are not effective for children. Recent meta-analytic studies have demonstrated that “good” child therapy is more effective than adult-like programs for children and teens.
2. About 15% of untreated youth sexual offenders go on to become adult offenders. While 6% who are treated with good child therapy go on to become adult offenders.
3. Before we rush in and say that “even a 6% risk is too much,” and put them into adult relapse prevention program (which are not very effective anyway for this group), and put them on offender lists for life, consider the fact that 6% of children with ADHD go on to become sexual-offenders as adults. Shall we put those with ADHD on offender lists?
Reference for all stats here: Child Maltreatment (Journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children), vol 13 #2, May 2008, Special Issue on Children with Sexual Behavior Problems.
November 29th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I do a lot of work with (mostly women’s) and female adolescents issues with both food and body image. In addition I’d like to see binge eating disorder added to the list. I’ve had numerous clientswho began anorexic and then flipped 180 degrees to becoming overweight and in some cases obese. This is not at all uncommon. Additionally, I do a lot of work with weight loss and educate people why diets don’t work and emotional eating.