Laurie Conaty - Services

CLINICAL SERVICES

THERAPY

What’s going on? How can I change it? Those are the two questions people grapple with most when seeking therapy. Using my diagnostic skills and years of experience, I am committed to helping individuals, couples, and families answer these questions. I will skillfully guide you through all the possibilities to remedy what’s troubling you.

COUPLES INTENSIVES

For couples who feel stuck, couples who have limited time and couples who are involved in high-conflict, an intensive may be just what you want. An intensive is scheduled for 3-6 hours (with breaks of course!) over a one to two day period. Some couples use an intensive to efficiently identify problems for further resolution and go back to their couples therapist, some couples return to see me and continue with intensives over a period of time. Influenced by the Doherty Method, Discernment Counseling and the Developmental Model, I bring a respectful, compassionate and precision-focused perspective to this structured work to help your relationship stabilize, learn some useful skills that work and become crystal clear on what you need to do to have the relationship that you want.

Interested in learning more about couples intensives work? Read this article from The Wall Street Journal.

CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS

It is a MYTH that people have to "want" help or "hit bottom." In fact, tragically, this approach can result in serious impairment or death. Often, people who have addictive disease NEED loving, assertive, leverage - typically in the form of assistance with defining their goals and values, looking at how the addiction is in line with realizing those goals and/or values or, in fact, hampering them and finally, having a clear set of choices and consequences - often defined by loved ones and/or employers.

Having been trained in Love First Clinical Interventions by Jeff and Debra Jay, I have years of experience working with family members or employers who have someone important in their life who is suffering from an addictive disease. I offer carefully planned, highly confidential clinical interventions.