Services
Dr. Mandel has extensive training and experience. She utilizes several practical and evidence-based approaches to help you reach your goals in the most effective and efficient ways. Based on your needs, the focus of therapy can relate to managing current issues and stressors, or it may address working more deeply with your underlying history that could contribute to your current pain.
Couples
Dr. Mandel is a certified advanced Imago Relationship therapist. The primary work of an Imago couple’s therapist is to help support both partners in their efforts to understand each other’s needs, improve communication, build trust, and help to restore the connection lost in their relationship. Dr. Mandel helps to facilitate this connection by teaching the couple how to engage with each other by using a specific structure called “The Imago Dialogue.” This dialogue helps the couple understand what’s going on underneath their power struggle and replace ineffective patterns of relating by addressing their issues in a healthy way. Built into the structure of the Imago Dialogue are the skills of listening to each other’s perspective without needing to get defensive, all while learning to have empathy for each other’s experience and differences. By working with Dr. Mandel, you learn to address issues by being more curious about yourself and your partner. You will move from blame and reactivity to understanding and empathy while developing a loving and healthy connection with each other. These skills are then taken outside of therapy as you adapt and benefit from what you have learned, which helps each couple maintain a more rewarding and fulfilling relationship. Imago Relationship therapy is for couples in any stage in their relationship.
Parenting
Dr. Mandel is a trained and advanced Imago Parenting therapist and helps couples during the distinct phases of their parenting journey. She supports families in preparing for their first child, raising teens, and everything in between. Dr. Mandel provides direction when parenting emerging young adults and assists in addressing the loss that can arise with the development of empty nest syndrome. Whether the strain is in your co-parenting relationship or in the connection with your child, increasing understanding and awareness can provide you with better ways to interact with each other, improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen bonds within your family system. Dr. Mandel offers practical strategies to help parents overcome their day-to-day challenges. She helps to bolster each parents’ confidence and resilience while addressing the challenges that come along with raising a family. Dr. Mandel will encourage you to re-frame daily challenges as you address the wonder and chaos of parenthood. She supports parents and helps them address issues in a healthy way by providing practical tools and by enhancing co-parenting skills.
Anxiety & Depression
Dr. Mandel works with patients experiencing anxiety, depression, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. She helps her patients gain insight and develop effective coping skills to manage their difficulties constructively and confidently, providing long-lasting benefits. She can help you address self-limiting and negative beliefs, acquire healthy coping skills, and achieve self-growth. During your therapy process, Dr. Mandel will provide the best possible care and support your individual goals. She will help you on your path to wellness, improve self-awareness, develop healthier boundaries, and increase self-care. Dr. Mandel’s supportive approach facilitates and assists you to develop the skills you need to manage negative feelings, address emotional triggers, re-direct damaging patterns, and overcome the challenges you face. She can help you learn new ways to cope with anxiety and stress and make the internal shifts that will help you to succeed on your own long after your therapy is finished.
Trauma & PTSD