Featured Therapists:
Every month, PTCNY features our member therapists. This month we’d like to introduce you to:
Modes of Treatment:
Individuals, Couples, Family
Specializations:
Anxiety and Panic Attacks, Career and Work Concerns, Creativity Challenges, Depression, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues, Grief, Separation and Mourning, Interpersonal Issues, Men’s Issues, Multicultural Issues, Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress, Women’s Issues
Therapeutic Modalities:
Creative Arts Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Mindfulness Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Stress Management
Michelle Schaffner, LCSW-R
Have you been feeling overwhelmed or discouraged? Are you looking for a safe space to explore solutions? I can help you. Together we can use more traditional types of talk therapy and also creative arts techniques to overcome difficult feelings and situations; to develop and maintain more meaningful relationships; and to move forward in your life. By listening closely and engaging in thoughtful and creative exchanges, I will invite you to let go of habits and routines that are not providing the results you want and to become more aware of how you relate to yourself and the world. We will create opportunities for your familiar ways of feeling and thinking to shift into a more satisfying and integrated version of yourself. I will help you identify your strengths and coping skills, strengthen supports available to you, remove obstacles you face, and achieve goals you want to reach.
Modes of Treatment:
Individual
Specializations:
Adult Children of Alcoholics, Anxiety Disorders including Panic, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Phobias, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues, Men’s Issues, Relationship Issues and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Therapeutic Modalities:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), EMDR, and Problem Solving Treatment
David W. Perkins, MSW, LCSW
What a joy it is that my job is to create an accepting, nurturing space for my clients to learn to be willing to observe their inner experiences with acceptance, compassion and love. I practice Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a mindfulness-based modality, to help my clients learn how to move towards valued directions and live a life of vitality and connectedness to self, others and the world. I am a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience providing individual psychotherapy for adults of all ages. I currently offer telehealth appointments. You can use your cellphone, tablet or computer for online video appointments. I serve a diverse population of both men and women of varying sexualities including heterosexual, gender fluid and the LGBTQ community. My primary treatment modalities are evidence-based practices and I very much enjoy seeing clients obtain symptom relief and gaining the tools they need to be empowered to live their lives without being encumbered by mental health obstacles. My clients often tell me they are so happy to be seeing someone who is focused and gives them concrete tools to manage their symptoms and lives, including cognitive restructuring, mindfulness techniques, exploration of core beliefs and values, acceptance and problem solving. My goal is to empower you to achieve your goals and to live the life you envision for yourself, guided by your core values.