Wellness Center: Stress Reduction: Supportive Counseling

Supportive Counseling

What Is It?

Supportive counseling is provided by Nicole Kahn, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. MFT's are psychotherapists, core mental health practitioners, relationship experts and healing arts practitioners licensed by the State of California. Our therapist is trained to assess, diagnose and treat individuals, couples, and families to achieve more fulfilling and productive personal, marital, familial, and social relationships. Psychotherapy does not offer solutions or take sides. Instead, our therapist will assist you in working out solutions according to your own personal values and lifestyle. Seeking professional support is a sign of courage and a willingness to deal with life's many changes.

Who Benefits?

Everyone can benefit from psychotherapy, especially:

• Persons seeking clarity and balance in their lives
• Those on a quest for personal growth
• Individuals inhibited by past hurt
• Those who are at crossroads relationally, emotionally, physically or spiritually

Clients who engage in psychotherapy are:

• More productive at work
• Visit their doctors less often
• Have an overall increase in self-esteem
• Have more tolerance for society in general
• Have an increased capacity for intimacy, work, maturity and a higher level of responsible functioning
• Achieve more fulfilling personal, marital and social relationships
  

Conditions It Treats

Anxiety, Stress, Anger Management, Depression, Emotional Overeating, Life Transitions, Low Self-Esteem, Familial/Relationship Issues, Communication Conflicts, Stunted Personal Growth, Chronic Pain, Addictions, Trauma, Loss/Grief.

About Your Practitioner

Nicole Kahn, M.A., Ed.M., is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over ten years of experience treating adolescents and adults, individually, as couples, and in families. Nicole uses an eclectic approach in her therapy practice, maintaining a person-focused rather than symptom-focused approach; she treats each person’s problems within the context of his or her current circumstances.

Nicole received a Bachelor of Social Work degree from New York University and then went on to earn a Master of Arts and a Master of Education in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University. She has completed coursework in the Ph.D. Expressive Arts Therapy Program at San Diego University of Integrative Studies and continually participates in educational opportunities regarding effective treatment practices for her clients. In addition to providing therapy, Nicole has years of experience teaching workshops, creating curriculum, and leading lectures in the field of mental health and holistic wellness. Currently, Nicole is an active member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

Nicole has received extensive training in cognitive-behavioral therapy, somatic therapies, expressive arts therapy, behavior-modification, short- and long-term psychodynamic therapy and Imago Couples therapy. She has also received training and education in utilizing Eastern methodologies, such as meditation, breath work and mind-body connection, to more effectively treat clients.

Nicole’s treatment objectives are first to alleviate current symptoms that prevent one from living a balanced, fulfilled, and joyous life, and then to address underlying issues. In this safe, therapeutic environment, she offers tangible methods to help reduce current symptoms, while helping to uncover the root cause of emotional ailments. As greater awareness is achieved, Nicole supports clients to integrate these new insights into everyday life. Thus, old, destructive patterns are eliminated and new, effective, and healthy ways of living emerge. Ultimately, the goal of therapy is to achieve more fulfilling and productive personal, marital, familial, and social relationships.

Achieving balance--emotionally, spiritually, and physically--is the key to a successful and satisfying life. Nicole incorporates her knowledge of psychology, yoga, Eastern philosophies, meditation, the creative arts, and alternative medicine to help clients gain total health and wellness. For Nicole, wellness is about integrating all parts of self and thus connecting to the world around us.

For more information, see Nicole's website: nicolekahn.com

 
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