For Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Best Me offers Psychotherapy Services to Children, Adolescents, and Adults. Our Therapists provide Individual, Family, and Couples Therapy and utilize an eclectic theoretical approach to therapy often drawing from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Psychodynamic, Interpersonal, Gestalt and oter approaches.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
Individual Therapy is a weekly recurring one-on-one session of an individual with a therapist where the goal is to help the individual overcome the problem/issues that bring the patient into therapy.
The type of Individual Therapy may be different for different people and/or different problems.
Our therapists work in an eclectic style utilizing Cognitive-Behavioral (CBT), Behavioral, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Realistic, Humanistic, Interpersonal, Psychodynamic, and Experiential theoretical approaches as indicated.
COUPLES THERAPY
In Couples Therapy a therapist works with couples or partners for joint therapy sessions and focuses on their relationship. The goals are to recognize and to understand the sources of their conflicts and try to resolve them.
Couples Therapy often includes helping couples learn different ways of interacting within the relationship. Couples will learn how to communicate more effectively and how to listen more closely, so both members of the couple can feel heard and understood.
Couples can also expect an elimination dysfunctional patterns of interacting that typically cause more damage to the relationship. Your therapist will work with you on creating healthy patterns that increase intimacy and connection, and help reestablish trust and hope for the future.
FAMILY THERAPY
In Family Therapy some or all members of a family meet with a therapist at the same time. It is a form of psychotherapy that brings family members together to solve their shared problems.
Family Therapy is based on the belief that families are the single most powerful resource available to individuals attempting to cope successfully with major psychological or other difficult life issues. In family therapy, family members work together to solve problems.
By allowing families to strengthen and use existing resources, and by helping family members work collaboratively toward inventive solutions to tough problems, family therapy has proven to be of great benefit to people at times of major life stress.
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
Psychological Assessment (sometimes referred to as Psychological Testing) is an evidence-based method of obtaining information to answer a specific referral question(s) in the areas of social functioning, cognitive abilities, and existence of co-morbid psychological disorders. The goal is to help identify a diagnosis, clarify a previous diagnosis, and develop a personalized treatment plan. Psychological Assessment includes: intelligence testing (IQ), personality testing, achievement testing, learning disorders, visual and auditory processing, behavioral disorders, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and mood disorders (i.e., depression, anxiety, bipolar).
Neurosychological Assessment (sometimes referred to as Neuropsychological Testing) is an evidence-based method that can help those who have received a head injury, concussion, struggle with memory loss, or have difficulties concentrating. Testing can help provide an individual with an overall picture of how well one’s brain is functioning such as the ability to remember, reason, concentrate, or solve problems. There are many kinds of neuropsychological tests used to help diagnose an individual with ADHD, dementia, concussion, short-term or long-term memory deficits, visual and auditory processing deficits, or other organically based psychological issues.
Please contact us at 323-271-1600 or by email at info@bestmepsych.com if you think Psychological or Neuropsychological Assessment might be right for you.
GROUP THERAPY
In Group Therapy a therapist works with multiple individuals at the same time. Group sessions are generally about 90 minutes.
Group Therapy members benefit by working through personal issues in a supportive, confidential environment and by helping other to work through theirs
You can participate in your own way at your own pace, but it is generally helpful to share your own thoughts, feelings and experiences, and to take an active interest in other members. The group therapist will usually encourage your participation, and comment on interactions and relationships in the group sessions. If you find something difficult or unpleasant in a group session you should do your best to talk openly about it in group, because working through these challenges is a big part of the group therapy process.
Some of the benefits to Group Therapy include:
- Exploring issues in a social context more accurately reflects real life
- An opportunity to observe and reflect on your own and other’s social skills
- An opportunity to benefit both through active participation and through observation
- An opportunity to give and receive immediate feedback about concerns, issues, and problems affecting one’s life
WE WILL BE OFFERING GROUPS SOON – PLEASE CHECK BACK
MEDICATION MANAGEMENT
Medication Management is provided by a psychiatrist whose aim is to optimize drug therapy and improve therapeutic outcomes for patients.
When used together, psychotropic medication and therapy are the most effective treatment for depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns. Medications are prescribed when symptoms of mental or emotional illness are severe, persistent, and interfere with normal functioning.
Currently Medication Management is not offered ONSITE, but we can give you referrals for Psychiatrists.