My approach to effective treatment planning is that each plan is tailored to the older client’s challenges and needs.  Gerontology literature clearly underscores the great diversity among older adults.  Treatment plans are not massed-produced, even if client’s have similar challenges. The individual’s strengths are challenges, unique stressors, social network, family circumstances, symptom patterns must be considered in developing a treatment strategy. 

Modalities/Therapeutic Tools Used:  Strengths Based Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT), and Psychodynamic Therapy.

Disorders Treated:  PTSD, Co-occurring Disorder, Anxiety, Panic Disorders, Mood Disorders, Major Depression, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Other: ADL/IADL, Caregiver Distress, Communication Deficits, Falls, Grief/Loss unresolved, Interpersonal Disputes, Life Role Transition, Residential Issues Unresolved, Medical/Medication Issues Unresolved, Memory Impairment, Paranoia, Obsessive-Compulsive.