Sloane Veshinski, PhD, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Master's Level Addiction Professional

I have more than 34 years of experience in mental health. My experience has taught me to explore conflict and stress from a multidimensional approach. Conflict is the result of ineffective or unclear interactions or patterns, or from the dance cycles that people get into. Do you notice that you sometimes move smoothly along life's dance floor, but other times step on one another's toes? If you find that the smooth times are less frequent, it's time to explore how your dance interacts with others, and how theirs interacts with yours. Toe-stomping dances may result from past experiences, unspoken misunderstandings, present beliefs, or different understandings of the conflict. People who can't resolve conflicts may attempt solutions they think will be effective, in an attempt to escape or change what they experience. Drugs, alcohol, sex, Internet addiction, and violence may all offer temporary escape, but they never work to change the situation. The only way to resolve conflict is through a head-on meeting of the minds. A neutral third party such as a therapist can help you see another perspective and find resolutions you never considered. Our role is to offer efficient and effective problem-solving. At the Sloane Center, we believe all people possess innate knowledge and strength that can help them overcome life's challenges. Our job is to help the individual identify her or his hidden strengths while helping him or her answer the questions that brought him or her to therapy.

Dr. Sloane also helps individuals who are struggling with divorce, as well as issues such as child visitation, communication that protects a child's well-being, and co-parenting. She is a trained parenting coordinator and family court mediator. She is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator. Sloane works with individuals, couples and families as well as life partners, divorcing and separating couples, individuals, co-parenting and divorced couples, those struggling with separation and divorce, high-conflict couples after divorce, and high-conflict relationships.

Problems result from ineffective problem solving or an inability to discuss the problem whereby both parties are unable to see the others perspective. Therapy helps to ensure that all parties are "heard" and their issues are acknowledged from all perspectives, so that resolution can be achieved.