Joan Lavendar PsyD - Comprehensive Personalized Psychotherapy Services
Are you out there on your own?
Women's Group
New York City is a wonderful place with lots of opportunities for women of all ages to challenge themselves. Yet, even in the midst of all this energy and activity, it is easy to feel lonely! This group is for any aspiring woman who feels like she is out there on her own.
It doesn't matter if you are busy, successful, studying hard or just vacationing in New York for the summer, you can still feel alone. And it doesn't matter if you married, raising children, choosing to be single or dating, you can still feel like you are out there on your own. It's your definition that matters.
Since each of us is unique, my purpose is to create a support group where each woman will find what she needs to create the next step in her life. Speaking from the heart will be part of our process. I will teach you skills that you can use for the rest of your life. Our group will become a safe place that will be there for you as you grow.
What you need to know about this group:
Purpose: To create a sense of belonging, support and inspiration.
Members: Ten women willing and able to contribute to a friendly inspiring group experience. Not group therapy. Age 21 on.
Time/Date: Contact me for details.
Place: 250 West 90 Street. (between Broadway and West End Ave.)
Fee: PreGroup Interview: No Charge. Affordable fees.
Joan Lavender has over 30 years experience working with people to create successful balanced lives in New York City. Her work integrates Experiential Focusing, a psychotherapy process shown to correlate with positive life changes, enhanced self-esteem and the experience of wholeness. Joan is a lifelong New Yorker who writes about psychotherapy change process, body image, eating issues, loneliness, competition and envy and other challenges of contemporary life.
What kind of symptoms/diagnoses can you get help for?
- Adjustment Reactions
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Anxiety Disorders
- Bipolar Mood Disorder
- Body Image
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Depression and Mood Disorders
- Dissociative Disorders
- Personality Issues: Overly Sensitive, Intense, Moody, Avoidant, Self-Defeating, Obsessive-compulsive, Perfectionistic
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Social Phobia
- Somatization
- Women's Issues
What kind of life situations can you get help for?
- Abuse and neglect
- Adult siblings
- College transition
- Competition, jealousy and envy
- Cross-cultural situations
- Creativity, talent and accomplishment
- Family
- Friendship issues
- Grief and loss
- Intimacy
- Loneliness and Aging
- Work
For
- Individuals (older adolescents and adults)
- Couples
- Families
- Groups
