Stephen Kusch PhD
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Through psychotherapy you may:
  • Develop better skills at managing difficult emotions, such as sadness, anger and grief.
  • Learn to nurture the feelings that are healthy (even if painful), and not those that can get you stuck.
  • Navigate important transitions in your career or family.
  • Become a better partner, boss, employee or parent.
  • Restore a healthy, positive narrative for your marriage or relationship, instead of getting stuck in cycles of criticism and rejection.
  • Develop healthier habits (eating, exercising, becoming more organized) without reliance on ultimatums.
  • Discover greater self-acceptance, humor and optimism.
  • Learn ways to relinquish chronic control and worry and be more “in the present.”
  • Learn positive strategies for decreasing the chances of recurrent depression.
  • Discover an identity that is not based on an analysis of your faults and defects.
  • Forge a deeper connection to your own values.
  • Become more engaged in personal interests, such as art, music, community involvement and exercise.
  • Find a better balance between work, family and personal time. 

My approach to therapy is based on several core values:
  • A belief in each person's innate capacity for health and change. 
  • A respect for the client's experience, skills, and point of view.
  • An assumption that psychological distress is a natural and common response to life's inherent difficulties.

As my client you can expect from me:
  • A respectful, compassionate, non-confrontational attitude. 
  • A mutual, reciprocal exploration of ideas.  
  • Practical guidance and strategies. 
  • Frequent check-in to evaluate whether my approach is on the right track. 
  • Non-defensiveness. 
  • An interest in you as a person, not just a "patient".  
  • Humor, openness and optimism.
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