Services
Joan is dedicated to providing compassionate consultation and psychotherapy to help bring about personal growth and change. The professional counseling services she offers are designed with the goal of improving relationships, mood, behavior, and overall life satisfaction.
Individual Psychotherapy
Individuals struggling with overwhelming emotions, feeling dissatisfied or distressed, or who are concerned about ongoing difficulties with interpersonal relationships can get assistance in making the really difficult decisions about issues and transitions affecting their life. The focus of individual psychotherapy with Joan is to empower you to create change. You will learn to understand and value your strengths, meet your challenges, and find ways to move forward in achieving your personal goals.
Couples Therapy
If you are in a relationship and have concerns with issues such as communication, emotional intimacy, sexual intimacy, ongoing conflict, fidelity, rebuilding trust, and setting boundaries, couples therapy with Joan can help you.
In treatment, Joan focuses on identifying and addressing any underlying issues that may be contributing to your difficulties. She assists you in finding ways to relate more effectively, as well as to work through painful feelings and experiences. Joan gives practical, growth promoting suggestions that allow you to explore alternatives and solutions.
Family Therapy
In life, many families experience communication difficulties, power struggles, divorce and separation, children's growing need for increased independence, and a longing for love and acceptance within the family.
Joan offers a safe place to collaborate on issues that impact the entire family. She welcomes all family members in the treatment process. She encourages an awareness of important family values, patterns of interaction among family members, and styles of communication.
Joan gives support and perspective to help identify obstacles getting in the way of progress. In recognizing that the family is the source of belonging and autonomy, Joan utilizes strategies to facilitate changes that will last. Efforts are made to enhance healthy family connections by understanding the attachment that exists between parents and children and by evaluating how this attachment influences the family system. The goal is to organize family change in a rational manner, learn a healthier way of relating to members of your family, improve the family's ability to get along, and open the path for growth, healing and resolution.
Please call (914) 328-3255 or email jelkmadison@optonline.net to make an appointment.
