Neil R. Selden, L.C.S.W.

Neil R. Selden, L.C.S.W.
Profession(s): Psychotherapy, Marriage & Family Therapy, Mental Health Counseling
License Status:  I'm a licensed professional.
License Type:  LCSW
License Number:  44SC00017400

My Approach to Helping

My job as your helper/coach/therapist is to win you a place on the Personal Happiness Olympic Team, and perhaps win you a gold. To use most effectively our individual experiences, skills, strengths and resources for the creation of personal and interpersonal happiness, we need to know ourselves more intimately. I believe in strengthening and polishing the already effective strategies you have learned. I will also suggest small experiments designed to introduce and practice new, solution-oriented skills, new ways of thinking, speaking and acting to help you reach your goals. If you are open to learning compassionate communication, meditation, self-hypnosis, cognitive transformation, breathing techniques, and other psychomotor skills, I have the training and experience to make them a joygiving part of your life. If desired by a client who feels ready, I create a safe space for the healthy expression and healing of long-buried emotional needs.

Decades of practice, as well as writing and directing plays and films, make me uniquely skilled in helping clients discover new sources of energy to fan the flames of their dreams, and to lead lives of joy, compassion and creativity.
 

Services I Provide

  • Individual Therapy & Counseling
  • Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
  • Family Therapy
  • Coaching
  • Distance or Phone Therapy
 

Ages I Work With

  • Teens
  • Adults
  • Elders
 

Languages I Speak

  • English
 

Groups I Work With

  • Couples, families, troubled teens, substance abusers, court or probation-officer mandated anger management clients.
 

Therapy Approaches I Use

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
  • Anger Management
  • Bioenergetic Analysis
  • Body-Mind Psychotherapy
  • Body Psychotherapy
  • Breathwork
  • Client-Directed Outcome-Informed Therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy /REBT
  • Coherence Therapy / Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
  • Core Energetics
  • Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing
  • Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
  • Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
  • Emotional Transformation Therapy
  • Existential Psychotherapy
  • Family Systems Therapy
  • Focusing
  • Guided Therapeutic Imagery
  • Hakomi
  • Hypnotherapy
  • Imago Relationship Therapy
  • Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
  • Internal Family Systems Therapy
  • Logotherapy
  • Mindfulness Based Approaches
  • Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
  • Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
  • Person Centered / Rogerian
  • Psychomotor
  • Reality Therapy
  • Relationship Enhancement Therapy
  • Solution Focused Therapy
  • Systems Theory /Therapy
  • Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Integration of different therapy models
 
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Locations & Maps
Office 1: 
35 CEDAR AVENUE
Highland Park, NJ 08904 United States
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Concerns & Issues I Help With

  • Abuse / Survivors of Abuse
  • Abandonment and/or Fear of
  • Academic Concerns
  • Addictions (Drug & Alcohol)
  • Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
  • Aggression
  • Agoraphobia
  • Anger
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment Issues
  • Bereavement
  • Bipolar
  • Blended Family Issues
  • Child and/or Adolescent Issues
  • Communication Problems
  • Control Issues
  • Creative Blocks
  • Depression
  • Divorce / Divorce Adjustment
  • Domestic Violence
  • Emptiness
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Family Problems
  • Forgiveness
  • Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, & Transgender Issues
  • Grief & Loss
  • Impulsivity
  • Inadequacy
  • Infidelity / Affair Recovery
  • Irritability
  • Isolation (Emotional & Social)
  • Life Purpose/Meaning/Inner-Guidance
  • Men's Issues
  • Midlife Transition
  • Mood Disturbance
  • Mood Swings
  • Multicultural Concerns
  • Oppositional & Defiant Behavior
  • Panic
  • Parenting
  • Post Traumatic Stress
  • Relationships & Marriage
  • Religion
  • Self-Confidence
  • Self-Criticism
  • Self-Doubt
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Love
  • Sensitivity to Criticism
  • Sex / Sexuality Issues
  • Social Phobia/Anxiety
  • Spirituality
  • Stress
  • Suicidal (Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors)
  • Trauma
  • Trust Issues
  • Values Clarification
  • Violence
  • Worry
  • Worthlessness