What We Treat
- Anxiety disorders, including OCD (Obsessions and Compulsions), phobias, social anxiety, panic and agoraphobia, worry, school refusal, separation anxiety, anticipatory anxiety, avoidance, and rumination
- Depressive disorders, including sadness, hopelessness, low motivation, loss of interest and enjoyment, thoughts of death and suicide, and self-injurious behavior (such as cutting)
- Stress, difficulty managing uncertainty, indecisiveness, perfectionism about school or work
- Anger, oppositional and disruptive behavior, irritability, and family conflict
- Low self-concept, feelings of insecurity, lack of assertiveness, guilt, shame, excessive reassurance seeking, feelings of disappointment and regret
What is CBT?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT focuses developing skills in self-reflection, emotion regulation, stress management, and communication. We help individuals to learn coping skills to manage difficult emotions, such as anxiety and depression, and reduce maladaptive behaviors (including avoidance, withdrawal, oppositional behavior, alcohol or substance use, or self-injury). We take a flexible approach, tailoring strategies and techniques to meet the needs of each individual and family. Therapy will help to:
- Improve understanding of the relations between thoughts, emotions and behavior
- Improve emotion and thought identification
- Reduce feelings of depression, hopelessness, anxiety, panic, fear, frustration, and anger
- Eliminate thoughts of death and suicide, and reduce self-injurious behavior
- Understand the function of a child’s behavior; How is it being modeled and reinforced?
- Develop tools to understand, challenge and “reframe” negative or maladaptive thoughts
- Improve problem-solving skills
- Learn relaxation and mindfulness skills
- Learn strategies to tolerate difficult emotions, including anxiety, worry, and frustration
- Improve ability to approach and master feared situations
- Improve communication with family, friends, coworkers, and classmates
- Develop reasonable standards, goals, and expectations for oneself and others
- Improve the quality of family relationships, developing a more secure home environment
- Strengthen parents’ confidence with managing children’s difficulties and supporting their child’s development.
Specialized Services
Individualized Care
Each child, each parent, and every family is unique. Following contemporary “personalized medicine” models, treatments are tailored to each patient’s individual needs. Therapy begins with a careful assessment and diagnostic interview. This allows us to develop an individualized treatment plan, which is followed by personalized, evidence-based treatment program
Compassion and Understanding
Relationships built on compassion, trust, respect, and collaboration are the cornerstone of our work. We will be working together to understand and effectively resolve your concerns.
Supporting Growth and Resilience
By learning skills to manage feelings of anxiety and depression, and to cope more effectively with life’s many stresses and challenges, patients come not just to feel better, but to have closer and stronger relationships and to perform more effectively at school and at work. The river of development flows ever and always toward increased autonomy and independence. Our goal is to align with the natural course of development and to help children, teens and young adults to develop the social, emotional, and cognitive skills which will allow them to flourish throughout their lives. I work to empower parents and to help them create a more secure, affectionate, and supportive home environment.
Services for Children, Teens & Young Adults
Mark Reinecke is an internationally recognized expert on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with children adolescents, and adults. His treatment approach is collaborative, individualized, and based entirely on peer-reviewed scientific research and guidelines from major professional organizations.
Before beginning therapy, we will talk at some length so that we can fully understand your concerns and what brings you and your child to therapy. We’ll want to understand the specific problems or concerns you have, previous experiences and events which might be contributing to these concerns, your values and expectations, as well as your specific treatment goals. This information will help us conceptualize your concerns and develop a treatment plan.
Evidence-based psychologists think of themselves, at least in part, as “coaches” or “educators”. Our goal is to assist children, teens, and families in learning new skills for managing life’s many challenges. Individually tailored treatment plans are developed to address each child or families specific concerns. Working together, our goal is to see marked and meaningful improvement in mood and functioning as quickly as possible.
Does CBT work? Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can be quite helpful. Developed during the 1970’s, CBT models and treatments are supported by hundreds of empirical studies and controlled outcome studies. As a result, CBT has been identified as “strongly supported”, “recommended”, or a “treatment of choice” by a wide range of professional organizations around the world. Among others, these include the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Psychological Association Clinical Practice Guidelines, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (United Kingdom), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Best Evidence Statement (BESt), the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, the US Preventive Services Task, the CPG-Ministry of Health and Social Policy (Spain), and the Group Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC).
Our treatment plans, then, emphasize the use of strategies with highest likelihood of benefiting you, your child, or your teen. I emphasize treatments that work, and offer them in a supportive, friendly, and convenient manner.