Unhappy with yourself and the way life is unfolding? Career, relationships, or creative life not what you want them to be? Anxious? Unmotivated? Sad? Together we can help you understand what's going on and what's getting in your way. In addition to patience, empathy, humor, reliability, and both personal and intellectual curiosity, I bring to my work the training and expertise to work with both individuals and couples around a wide-range of concerns. Areas of special interest interpersonal conflict, depression, anxiety, loneliness, creative blocks, eating/body image issues, LGBT concerns, habitual procrastination, self-esteem, sexual difficulties, and the particular dilemmas of artists and academics.
My approach is individualized and interactive with a focus on long-term sustainable change. I take as a basic premise that you are more than a collection of symptoms or a problem to be fixed and believe that all you bring to the table deserves our full attention and exploration.
Self-knowledge is good medicine. Therapy takes courage but can help you, like nothing else can, attain a sustainable sense of well-being and a freer and more satisfying life. (For more information about my training, my philosophy, and how I can help, please visit www.tessaaddison.com.)
More Info About My Practice
Consultation Sessions* - $100
A four session consultation (with meetings taking place, schedules allowing, over a one to two week period) is recommended. This allows for a better understanding of you and your needs than would a single session and therefore a more appropriate and well-informed treatment recommendation. It also offers you a fuller experience of the therapeutic relationship and the nature of the work and, thus, a clearer sense of whether the match is a good one.
Ongoing Sessions* - $100-$175
Session cost will be determined during the course of our consultation and will depend on meeting frequency, time of day at which sessions are scheduled, and your financial circumstance. Referrals to an appropriate colleague or clinic will be happily made for those in need of a reduced fee.
Billing/Insurance
Payment will be expected directly from you. You will be provided with a monthly bill which can be submitted to your insurance provider for "out-of-network" re-imbursement if such coverage is available to you under the terms of your contract.
Services I Provide
Individual Therapy & Counseling
Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
Consultation
Clinical Supervision
Distance or Phone Therapy
Ages I Work With
Adults
Languages I Speak
English
Groups I Work With
LGBT individuals and couples; Artists; Academics
Therapy Approaches I Use
Anger Management
Depth Therapy
Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
Gottman Method
Mindfulness Based Approaches
Object Relations
Parent Work
Psychoanalysis / Modern Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic
Relational Psychotherapy
Relationship Enhancement Therapy
Solution Focused Therapy
Integration of different therapy models
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