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Individual Therapy

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Do you suffer from anxiety, depression or destructive behaviors? Difficulties with your job or constantly feeling hurt? Are you going through a crisis, such as loss of a job, divorce, illness, or difficulties with your aging parents? Have you experienced a recent or childhood trauma?

Our individual therapy is geared to help you alleviate your suffering, move through a crisis and live life more fully.

At Guttman & Pearl Associates, we focus on helping you develop new tools to improve the quality of your life, heal deep hurts from current and past experiences, increase your self-esteem, manage stress and anger, and most importantly, to find joy and calm. Our therapists are warm, comforting, active and supportive. Individual therapy is tailored to your specific needs.

Specialities at Guttman and Pearl Associates:

Many people experience trauma at some time in their lives, such as childhood sexual, physical, or emotional abuse, sexual assault, or events due to accidents or war.  The effects of post-traumatic stress can be devastating and limiting. Therapists at Guttman & Pearl Associates are trained to use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help you heal from trauma and live a productive life. Our expertise in sex therapy and EMDR helps you find your way to a positive self-esteem.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people live a full and meaningful life. Using ACT, our therapists guide you in developing the psychological skills needed to deal with painful thoughts and feelings, so those feelings have less impact and influence over you. We help you accept what is out of your personal control, effectively handle the pain and stress that is inevitable in life, and commit to action that is consistent with what is most important to you. ACT is rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness and Gestalt Therapy.

The therapists at Guttman & Pearl Associates use a method of psychotherapy called Internal Family Systems, (IFS). We often hear people say, “A part of me feels…” or “A part of me wants…”.  We might have a part that is angry or sad and as a result takes over your life.  At these times, we become reactive. Our actions cause us pain to ourselves and those close to us.  IFS helps you recognize your parts and become compassionate and curious about these parts.  We assist clients to understand the role different parts play in their lives, release the painful feelings, and learn to act from a more mindful place.  By appreciating those aspects of ourselves, people develop a healthy self-esteem.  Couples learn to name and speak for or about their parts, rather than live in reactivity. Thus, they develop closer connections with their partners.

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Gail Guttman
301-984-0322
gail@gpatherapy.com
6000 Executive Blvd.
Suite 530
Rockville, MD 20852
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Gwen Enfield Pearl
202-363-9191
gwen@gpatherapy.com
4545 42nd St., NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20016
(near Tenley Circle)
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