Mood Disorders

Using the best modalities developed to date, Dr. Pandolfo can provide the support necessary to endure challenging seasons and work for lasting improvements in your experience of a mood disorder. Finding the right diagnosis and working through a responsive treatment plan means the difference between surviving the struggle and gaining the ability to thrive.

Some struggles are for a season, and some stay with us throughout life. With excellent support you can live beautifully and move toward increased health every day. Patients who work with Dr. Pandolfo are equipped with techniques they can use beyond sessions to cultivate their own self-awareness and build skills for mental well being.

Worry, Panic, & Anxiety

Feelings of worry, panic, and anxiety can do more than threaten your happiness; they can derail your life. Whether you find yourself concerned about the same thing(s) chronically or experience the world on constant high alert, psychotherapy can lift the oppressiveness of these feelings. Contact Us if you think these feelings may be detracting from your ability to thrive.

Depression

Has sadness been smothering you? Does a sense of worthlessness or hopelessness make it hard to care about things that usually matter to you? When any of us experience depression, it's like our ability to let joy chase away the sadness is temporarily lost. While we would never aim to completely eliminate all negative emotions from life, with the right help and support, we can navigate sad seasons with hope and find the ability to engage the world around us. Whether your feelings of depression seem tied to an obvious cause or have come from seemingly "nowhere," consider letting our team help you move through this challenge to better days.

Performance Anxiety

Anxiety is not only an experience of someone who is struggling to succeed; anxiety can show up through the highs as well as the lows, manifesting even when we are completely capable of facing the challenges in our life. Develop effective strategies to deal with performance anxiety, free yourself from the "imposter experience," and fulfill your potential with the right mental healthcare support.

Find Work & Life Balance

Life doesn't stay still, and neither can we. But how can we reach our potential without depleting ourselves? Finding meaningful balance and sustainable productivity in all the areas of life that matter to you can be challenging. The cost of trial-and-error on your professional opportunities and personal relationships can be high. Find quicker, less costly pathways to the life that will work for you with an experienced psychologist as your thinking partner. Anticipate roadblocks, process challenges, and unpack the baggage that's holding you back, all while pursuing the goals that matter most to you.

Build Healthy Relationships

Develop relationship skills (including conflict management, effective communication, and teamwork) to help you navigate the changes and challenges encountered at home and work. Often we don't learn everything we need to be successful in relationships from early relationships. Improving relational patterns requires UN-learning ineffective patterns and developing new ways of listening, speaking, and behaving with others.

Cultivate Well Being

Life doesn't have to look bleak for you to know there is something more. While mental healthcare is something we often seek when we're struggling, the mental health version of "well care" allows you the confidential, qualified support you need to build on what's working in your life and tap into a deeper sense of meaning and fulfillment in life. Patients who hire Dr. Pandolfo for well being support are able to build on their strengths, engage in self-discovery, and expand their capacity to thrive in life and relationships. Challenge yourself, set growth goals, and reach more of your potential with an experienced psychologist as your thinking partner.

Processing Loss & Grief

Your journey through grief and loss is unique to you, yet we all need to navigate the stages of grief with authenticity to find meaning and peace. Whether the loss you face is fresh or something from the past you're finally ready to process, having a qualified psychologist like Dr. Pandolfo can bring stability and safety to the process. Some journeys are impossible to travel alone, and others become richer with the help of a trusted advisor. It isn't always about moving on from grief but moving through your life toward meaning and beauty to find a life worth living.

Pregnancy Loss

The unique pain of pregnancy loss, and facing infertility issues can be a challenge to your individual well being as well as your intimate relationships. Psychotherapy is a safe space to deal with the ongoing struggle of seeking answers or future fertility, as well as effectively grieving your losses in a healthy way.

Loss to Suicide

Losing a loved one to suicide is a unique form of grief. If you're navigating the aftermath of someone taking their own life, working with a highly experienced psychologist can help you find a way through the impossible by processing effectively.

Mental Health Professionals

If your work is to provide mental healthcare for others, your own mental well being is critical. We know we don't have to tell you that. What we will tell you is that we have a passion for helping other mental healthcare professionals to sustain the strain and thrive in the calling. Whether you need a qualified colleague to help you process a challenge, or need to re-infuse growth into your practice; our team can support you.

Priests, Pastors, & Spiritual Supporters

For those in a caregiving position, the confidential space to process life can be hard to come by. Pastors, clergy, coaches, counselors, and others in helping professions often find that excellent psychotherapy can expand their capacity to help others well. Unaddressed anxiety, unprocessed loss or trauma, or unresolved challenges in your own life can eat up the bandwidth you need to do your job. If this is you, call today for a free consultation.

Medical Professionals

Giving medical care to those who are in crisis, have experienced trauma, or suffer chronic illness requires a great deal of mental and emotional energy. There's a reason the rate of burnout among primary care providers, medical specialists, and allied health workers is drastically higher than that of the non-medical work population.

Whether you've dealt with one too many losses lately or feel crushed under the tandem pressures of the work itself, engaging in psychotherapy can be of help. To have a fully confidential, expertly trained and deeply experienced professional help you effectively process the inevitable load can help you stay motivated and fulfilled in the important work you do.

Medical Transitions

Coping with a diagnosis, negotiating the impact on life and identity it can bring, and co-creating a new normal are skills any of us can learn with help. With disappointment, change, and the vulnerability of facing medical issues, we need help to process and strategize if we are to move well and fully into a positive future.

Whether you are fighting cancer, coping with a terminal diagnosis, facing infertility yourself or navigating these issues with a loved one; the support of a qualified psychologist can help.

Some Medical Transitions/ Health Challenges that Benefit from Psychotherapeutic Support:

• End of Life
• Undiagnosed Illness
• Coping with Chronic Pain/Illness
• Caring for Ill Family Members
• Cancer Diagnosis & Treatment
• Pregnancy, Pregnancy Loss, & Fertility Issues

Insomnia / Sleep Challenges

Certain psychotherapeutic techniques have been shown to have strong and lasting positive effects on the ability to sleep and rest well. In addition to the relief brought from dealing with causes of sleeplessness, working with psychologists trained in sleep therapy (including Lori Pandolfo, Psy.D. on our team) can greatly improve sleep in a set course of sessions.