By speaking with my clients, not just focusing on their symptoms, we achieve insight and build trust towards psychological and emotional well being.
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Phone: 310-278-9702 | email: DRMAR@mindtx.org |
My mission as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist is to bare witness to my patient’s narrative. By speaking to my client directly not just to their symptoms, we achieve insight and build trust towards psychological and emotional well-being. As a “corrective relational partner”, my ultimate goal is to help my clients explore their feelings, reduce their anxiety, and improve their self-image and the manner in which they relate to their world. The Here and Now process in the psychotherapy relationship is a microcosm of life where the opportunity for change and integration happens. This is the key to successful psychological change. Overall, with my dual degree and training as a licensed clinical social worker and a psychotherapist, I treat all aspects of my client’s life. This, I believe, creates the highest opportunity for treatment success.
There are no quick fixes in life. There is always a way in to get help and to get support. The first step is just asking talking letting yourself just say help even when it feels impossible. The long term of psychotherapy has a profound impact like nothing else when u tolerate the process talk express and know that life is about having to face and feel it all. This is the goal. Instant gratification or a band aid helps in the moment just like picking up the phone. Symptom management is part of it. Meds are part of it but the only way through it is through it. It’s all a process. A journey! Psychotherapy and life are about learning to live with it. This takes time and this takes time with the most important component a relationship with a trusted psychotherapist, psychologist, psychiatrist. It takes time to build that too just like any relationship. It is a place for you to be. We all must take the steps to commit to the long term process. We all want the quick fix but it’s not gonna do what you want. You are worth it!!! — Richman, 2018
Psychotherapy is a general term that is used to describe the process of treating psychological disorders and mental distress. During this process, Dr. Melissa Richman, Psy.D, LCSW helps the client tackle a specific or general problem such as a particular mental illness or a source of life stress. Psychotherapy aims to help people experience life more deeply, enjoy more satisfying relationships, resolve painful conflicts and better integrate all the parts of their personalities.
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With Dr. Richman's help, each client has a unique opportunity to view him/herself more accurately. The client can make connections between past and present that illuminate the way he or she relates to self and to others. Clients are encouraged to talk about thoughts and feelings that arise in therapy with Dr. Richman. Therapy is expensive, but it is a commitment to yourself. If the relationship to yourself isn't the most important, than how can you be the best you can be in all of your relationships?
Psychotherapy has both benefits and risks. Risks sometimes include experiencing uncomfortable levels of feelings like sadness, guilt, anxiety, anger and frustration, loneliness and helplessness. Dr. Richman believes that therapists and patients are partners in the therapeutic process. Throughout the course of care she will provide feedback, interpretation, and recommendations in helping you reach your goals. If she feels you are not benefiting from treatment, she may elect to initiate discussion of treatment alternatives. You may discontinue therapy at any time.
