| Office: |
189 Hermosillo Drive
Montecito, CA 93108
|
| Phone: |
(805) 969-7474
|
| E-mail: |
|
| Web Site: |
robertshaferphd.com
|
| Profession: |
Marriage and Family Therapist
|
| Services: |
Psychotherapy/Counseling
Coaching
Medication Evaluations
Psychoanalysis
|
| Practice Description: |
All individuals are entitled to understand themselves and enjoy the freedom to behave authentically in daily life. In order to accomplish this, they need to resolve the inhibitions that betray their strengths. Because each person is unique, there can be no set formula for helping people find solutions and pursue their goals. As a therapist I focus on the particular circumstances presented, and help construct personalized goals by carefully and non-judgmentally attending to what is being presented. I endeavor to respond in a direct, supportive, and interactive manner, always from an empathic perspective. I believe that this is my greatest strength as a therapist. Empathic understanding helps people gain confidence and self esteem, and establishes the foundation of trust which makes growth possible.
|
Practice Specialties or Interests:
(Strengths are
in bold text) |
Personal Growth
Depression
Adjustment Disorder
Anxiety Disorders/Phobias
Bipolar Disorder
Child Abuse
Co-dependency
Cognitive Disorders
Dissociative Disorders
Eating Disorders
Grief/Loss
Impulse Control Disorders
Infidelity
Life Transitions
Men's Issues
OCD
Parenting Issues
Personal Growth
Personality Disorders
PTSD
Relationship Issues
Self-esteem
Relationship Issues
Anxiety
|
| Age Specialties: |
Children
Adolescents
Adults
Elders
|
| Session Formats: |
Individual
Couples
Family
Group
|
| Treatment Approaches: |
Behavioral
Cognitive/Cognitive-Behavioral
Control Mastery
Developmental
Eclectic
Existential/Humanistic
Experiential
Family Systems
Integrative
Interpersonal
Intersubjective
Light Therapy
Narrative
Object Relations
Person-Centered
Psychoanalytic
Psychodynamic
Psychoeducational
Psychosocial
Self Psychology
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Somatic
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis
|
| Education: |
Ph.D,, Cambridge Graduate School Of Psychology, 1985
MA, Antioch Collage, 1982
|
| License #: |
MFC19148 |
| License State: |
California |
| Additional Licenses/ Certifications: |
I understand my strength as listening and understanding from an empathic perspective. One which helps people gain confidence and self esteem. I believe growth occurs in a trusting relationship.
I have trained interns for more then 10 years, and have taught therapists at the graduate level here in Santa Barbara. Besides having a doctorate in clinical psychology, I have trained in contemporary psychoanalysis and am receiving a second Doctorate in psychoanalysis. See personal website-(robertshaferphd.com) |
| Professional Affiliations: |
 | California Association of Marriage, Child, and Family Therapists | | Institute Of Contemporary Psychoanalysis |
|
| Fee Schedule: |
Fees range on a sliding scale from $160.00 |
| Accepted Insurance: |
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
CIGNA
Health Net
Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
License is approved by most insurance companies
|
| Insurance and Billing Instructions: |
Most insurance companies accept my license for re-imbursements |
| Additional Comments: |
Contemporary psychoanalysis is a psychotherapeutic method which explores the client's unique, subjective experience in order to make sense of it in a way which is both deeply meaningful and healing. A wide range of people can benefit from this approach including adults, adolescents, children, families, and couples. It is a flexible mode of treatment which helps in resolving emotional problems, relieving psychological distress, and developing intimate relationships with others, and is a valuable avenue for self-discovery and personal growth.
An analyst trained in contemporary psychoanalysis focuses on helping the patient understand how past experiences - - the attachments, separations, and losses which have occurred in early life - determine current-day contexts of living, working, and loving. Though derived from the discoveries of Sigmund Freud which were made a century ago, contemporary psychoanalysis is based on scientific research in child development and neurobiology and is an advanced method of psychotherapeutic treatment. Unlike the picture of a bearded professor listening in neutral silence while the patient lies on a couch, contemporary psychoanalysis is an interactive conversation in which therapist and client collaborate together in understanding the psychological patterns which are causing the patient problems.
Focus on the here-and-now of an individual's experiences and relationships in the context of the supportive understanding of the analyst facilitates the development of new awareness and insight which begins to transform even long-standing and intractable patterns of painful experience. |
| |
|
