start by putting the puzzle together that explains how things got the way the are for you. We'll identify the efforts you made to live your best life, but that ultimately may have fallen short. And then we'll patch together a plan that can work.
start by putting the puzzle together that explains how things got the way the are for you. We'll identify the efforts you made to live your best life, but that ultimately may have fallen short. And then we'll patch together a plan that can work.
that I don't see you as broken and needing to be fixed, and I don't judge. I see you and I as the same: humans struggling to find meaning, and trying to be effective in what matters most deeply to us. We'll work together to help you get unstuck.
Explore a broad range of concerns, both past and present, including life and work stress, relationship issues, and personal struggles with the goal to improve your overall quality of life.
Explore a broad range of concerns, both past and present, including life and work stress, relationship issues, and personal struggles with the goal to improve your overall quality of life.
Dr. Petrongolo believes in a collaborative style to treatment including cognitive behavioral approaches, supportive therapy, mindfulness, and principles of positive psychology.
explore your full range of feelings and practice new ways of expressing them. We will connect, increase your awareness, and make shared meaning so you can get unstuck from fear and avoidance and clarify your wants and needs.
explore your full range of feelings and practice new ways of expressing them. We will connect, increase your awareness, and make shared meaning so you can get unstuck from fear and avoidance and clarify your wants and needs.
I'm a certified Gestalt therapist, which means I believes in the healing work of a strong therapeutic relationship, as well as the power of experimentation and staying in the moment.
Assess where your difficulties come from, what's keeping you stuck, and learn new strategies to break old patterns. We'll focus on the issues that matter to you, whether they be relationships, trauma, anxiety, whatever, we will manage them together.
Assess where your difficulties come from, what's keeping you stuck, and learn new strategies to break old patterns. We'll focus on the issues that matter to you, whether they be relationships, trauma, anxiety, whatever, we will manage them together.
My approach integrates client-focused care with research-backed strategies. I get to know each individual and their struggles, and then pull from the various evidence-based techniques I'm trained in to meet their specific needs.
Together we will explore your patterns of thinking, feeling and acting/reacting. We will work help you choose your own response to upsetting circumstances, thoughts and feelings and to overcome entrenched habits of negative thinking.
Together we will explore your patterns of thinking, feeling and acting/reacting. We will work help you choose your own response to upsetting circumstances, thoughts and feelings and to overcome entrenched habits of negative thinking.
I personalize treatment for each client's needs. While creating a warm, non-judgmental environment, I collaborate with the client to increase hope for change and optimism based on the work that we do together in therapy.