Postgraduate Psychotherapy Center
冠状病毒大流行是否让你感到害怕、脆弱和无助?也许你觉得自己一个人处理会更舒服?
The Postgraduate Psychotherapy Center continues to operate during the coronavirus crises.
We accept new patients and continue to provide psychotherapy remotely through a HIPAA compliant teleconferencing.
The coronavirus has created a new form of stress which we are not used to managing. The concerns for our own health and that of our loved ones, financial worries and the loneliness of isolation all take their toll on our emotional well-being. Our usual outlets to relieve stress have been all but eliminated leaving few options. The tension of living in close quarters, day after day, is a further challenge. Personal relationships become strained increasing frustrations.
If you find yourself more irritable, argumentative, fatigued, apathetic or sad it is likely an emotional response to the COVID-19 situation.
如果你正在经历这样的症状，心理疗法可以帮助你。与训练有素的专业人士交谈可以让你更好地忍受和管理压力，这样就不会以不适应的方式表现出来(如饮酒、暴饮暴食、睡过头、争吵、抑郁退缩等)。
阿德尔菲研究生心理治疗中心正在提供私人和保密的心理治疗课程来解决这些问题。
If you feel you would benefit by connecting with others who are challenged by similar experiences, the Psychotherapy Center also offers group psychotherapy.
All sessions are conducted via secure Zoom, a teleconference program that can run on any computer or smartphone. This is a more secure version of Zoom, not the free one, which is completely confidential and cannot be “hacked or bombed”. Sessions are completely private and function as if you had an office visit.
To provide the greatest possible access to this service we are utilizing a sliding scale to determine a fee. Fee per session is priced so the treatment will be affordable to most.
Affordable therapy programs for the community.
Ryan Lubock, PsyD Triage Coordinator
The Postgraduate Psychotherapy Center provides professional, affordable psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy to Long Island and the surrounding area. Founded over 40 years ago, the Center is the clinical branch of thePostgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Adelphi University.
Our therapists are mental health professionals skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of a range of psychological, emotional, and relationship problems.
Services
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a form of intensive psychotherapy requiring patients to examine their inner world as well as the problems that they face in everyday life.
By meeting for psychoanalysis treatment three times a week, a continuity and intensity is maintained that allows for consistency in exploring longstanding and sensitive issues. Major changes in maladaptive patterns and lifestyle may be achieved.
Fees
In order to make psychoanalysis treatment more available, the Postgraduate Psychotherapy Center offers low cost analytic treatment. Candidates in our psychoanalytic training program treat patients on a three times a week basis for low fees.
The patient is asked to make at least a two-year (300) hour commitment to the process.
Psychotherapy
Starting psychotherapy is an important decision. Choosing among the many therapies available and finding a therapist can be daunting. The therapists at Adelphi’s Postgraduate Psychotherapy Center can help you decide what options are best for you.
Our Long Island psychotherapy clinic treats a wide range of issues including:
- depression
- anxiety
- self esteem issues
- relationship conflicts
- inhibitions
- career problems
- eating disorders
- life stage issues
During an initial interview and evaluation, the staff will help you decide on the treatment and the therapist best suited to helping you. The Postgraduate Psychotherapy Center offers psychotherapy sessions once or twice weekly; psychoanalysis is offered three times a week.
A psychiatrist affiliated with the Center is available for consultation and medication management, should it be decided that this would be a helpful adjunct to your psychotherapy.
Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychotherapy
必须从个人和家庭的角度评价影响儿童、青少年和家庭的问题。我们的治疗是根据每个具体情况量身定做的，经常将个人心理治疗与家庭治疗相结合。
When a child is referred, therapists meet with the child and parents to assess the problem and determine the most effective form of treatment. In addition to separate sessions for the child and separate sessions with the parent or parents, family sessions may be part of the child’s psychotherapy treatment.
Older Adult Psychotherapy
老年人和他们的家人通常认为，未来对个人的成长和改变没有什么希望。因此，老年人觉得没有理由谈论他们的问题。事实上，这些年是个人发展和积极改变的时期。
At the Postgraduate Psychotherapy Center, we work with people throughout the life cycle and provide a variety of older adult psychotherapy services. We view old age as another developmental phase with unique challenges and opportunities.
We offer all types of psychotherapy for people in their seventies and older. We have programs for individuals, families, and couples. Our staff will help determine the most effective program, based on the person’s needs.
A psychiatrist affiliated with the Postgraduate Psychotherapy Center is available for medication consultation and management.
Marital and Couples Therapy
The Marriage and Couples Therapy Center is a Long Island marriage counseling center that helps address relationship issues of intimacy, maintaining an enduring and satisfying marriage, and committing oneself as part of a couple.
Therapists at the marriage counseling center can help resolve problems relating to:
- marital disharmony and conflict
- communication
- pre-marital relationship concerns
- separation and divorce
- remarriage
- blended families
- post-divorce co-parenting
- loss of sexual desire
Frequently Asked Questions
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapies work to explore and understand unconscious feelings, thoughts and fantasies about ourselves and others. This unconscious material works outside of our awareness and influences the ways in which we behave and feel towards ourselves and others, significantly affecting choices and decisions.
Psychoanalytic theory has postulated that early life experience is often the cause of disruptive symptomatology and painful feelings in adulthood. This type of therapy strives to create an environment of respect and nurturance which allows an individual to freely express their thoughts and feelings. From this, therapist and patient can begin to make meaning of these symptoms and conflicts.
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapies differ from other methods of psychotherapy in their focus, depths and methods. They look to not only manage and ameliorate current psychological symptoms, but also to understand their root causes and examine them from the broader context of the whole person and their unique, individual history. This kind of understanding can promote longer lasting change.
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic techniques include but are not limited to reflecting on emotional states and examining patterns of behavior that inhibit adequate adjustment. An integral part of psychoanalytic exploration is revisiting one’s childhood with a trained and informed clinician who can help make sense of memories. Sometimes understanding dreams, free associations and unintentional acts can contribute further insight. Reflecting on the relationship with the therapist is also a rich source of information about how one operates in the world.
精神分析是一种精神动力学心理治疗的形式，促进更深入和更全面的自我反思。因此，它需要在较长的时间内每周2-3次。
Most people who seek psychotherapy are in some sort of emotional pain. Depression, anxiety, emotional instability, bereavement, post-trauma reactions, loneliness, inability to find and sustain meaningful relationships, or repeated failures at work or school, are the most common struggles that bring people to psychotherapy.
However, psychotherapy can offer more than symptom relief. Often people seek psychotherapy for help in developing a more meaningful and satisfying life. They long for self-actualization, greater satisfaction with work and love relationships and wish to become generally more effective in their lives. To these ends, psychodynamic psychotherapy is an excellent choice.
Everyone can benefit from psychotherapy – adults and children from different social and ethnic backgrounds, as well as a wide range of personality styles, cultural and religious affiliations, or sexual orientations and sexual identities.
Adults usually initiate psychotherapy when they wish to change and are willing to become agents of their own transformation. Readiness for sincere self-reflection is essential for a successful treatment. Children are usually brought to therapy by parents who wish to help them develop more adaptive coping strategies.
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapies promote greater self-awareness and stronger, more reliable connections to one’s inner life and core beliefs. This can usher in a more realistic sense of self, improved self-esteem, and promote a greater capacity to interact with the world and others in healthy ways.
Recognizing our needs, how we attempt to get our needs met and what stands in the way of getting them met are only a few examples of what self-knowledge means. These insights, in turn, help us gain better control over our lives by making desirable choices that allow us to experience greater pleasure and satisfaction, as well as successfully survive and transform adverse life circumstances. Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapies can stimulate an ever-growing self-awareness and capacity to engage in life.
Psychotherapy helps people develop:
- Capacity for self-reflection
- Better understanding of one’s past and how it affects present functioning
- Better problem-solving skills
- Better tolerance for feelings and experiences (positive or negative, painful or pleasant)
- Resilience under stress
- Self-acceptance and self-compassion
The gains from psychotherapy can manifest as:
- Better self-esteem
- More successful use of talents
- Greater efficacy and productivity
- Increase in one’s sense of pleasure from accomplishments, daily activities and relationships
- Better capability to sustain meaningful, mutually loving relationships with genuine intimacy
- Better ability to appropriately express feelings towards others
- Ability to express love and empathy or be nurturing to others
- Ability to assert oneself appropriately when needed
- Ability to tolerate feelings, positive and negative
- Ability to express thoughts and feelings in words
- Greater comfort in social situations
重要的是要记住，改变需要时间。大多数人，尽管有意识地愿意和渴望改变，却发现很难做到。重复旧习惯的吸引力是强大的，需要不断的自我反思来抵制它。通常，随着治疗的进行，最初没有考虑到的问题，成为治疗的重点。
Therefore, psychodynamic psychotherapy is most often not time limited and there is no prescribed length of treatment. Depending on the complexity of the problem and the unique personal history of the patient, psychotherapy can last anywhere from a few months to a few years.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy consists of 1 or 2 weekly 45-50 minute sessions. Psychoanalysis requires a commitment of at least 2 years and 3-4 weekly 45-50 minute sessions, but most analyses last much longer.
Patients decide together with their therapist when it’s time to terminate the treatment.
心理治疗的探索永远不会完成。总有更多的东西需要我们去了解自己、我们所爱的人以及整个世界。有些人在人生的不同时期决定重新接受心理治疗。
Like any other service, psychotherapy requires an investment of money. The Postgraduate Psychotherapy Center provides effective treatment at an affordable cost. We strive to make treatment affordable and utilize a sliding scale based on household income to establish fees. We are especially dedicated to depth psychotherapy and make multiple sessions per week within the financial reach of most people.