WHAT I OFFER

INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY

I am a contemporary gestalt psychotherapist. This means that we work in a relational, present and mindful manner to address your needs. Gestalt psychotherapy is a holistic and humanistic approach. It is embodied, experiential and relational.

In individual psychotherapy we explore the terrain of your life. We do this first by heightening awareness of how you are currently living and clarifying what is working for you and what you want to change. In therapeutic conversation, we pay attention to your feelings, thoughts, sensations and behaviors.

With my support, we use your growing awareness of yourself as ground for taking experimental steps in new enlivening directions.

This process leads toward resolution, change and growth. Further, you learn to apply this therapy process of awareness and experimentation on your own.

You bring to our work all that you know about yourself. I bring my training and experience. Our working relationship is important, so we begin your individual psychotherapy by simply meeting one another. Our first session will focus on the experience of working together, and our mutual sense of what working together might look like.

COUPLE’S THERAPY

Couple’s therapy offers an opportunity to identify and understand patterns that develop between partners. In supportive conversation, I’ll help you build awareness of the ways your particular patterns are shaping the relationship you share. We’ll use this awareness to clarify aspects of your relationship that are working, as well as aspects of your relationship you may wish to change.

In couple’s therapy, you learn about yourself and about each other. Couples often find that my supportive and guiding presence helps them to communicate, to speak and to listen, with one another.

In any relationship, there can be challenges. I’ll help you to express yourselves and explore the facets of such a challenge. This in turn, may help you as a couple make aware choices in shaping your future.

Being in a relationship actually helps us to grow as people. I keep this in mind during our couple’s work together.

GROUP THERAPY

Group Therapy affords you the opportunity to be helped and to help others. Participants benefit from the therapist’s professional expertise as well as the lived experience shared by other members of the group. Group Therapy is a rich and effective way of working on oneself.

Group therapy allows you to work through many issues, especially those issues related to how you interact with others. A group has the benefit of being akin to “real” social life, with its diversity of members and relational styles.

I work in an interactive, gestalt group therapy model. Groups can have from 4-8 people. Some are time bound for several months and others are ongoing.

The first step to joining a group is to meet one-on-one with me. We'll evaluate together how a particular group may meet your needs.

Here is a sampling of group work I have offered:

  • Group Therapy for All: A mixed group of folks working together.

  • Gay Men’s Group Therapy (All Ages)

  • Gestalt Group for Helping Professionals

Please contact me through the contact page of this website for further info.

“Adam Weitz is an outstanding psychotherapist - knowledgeable, empathic, and contemporary. He is a practitioner dedicated to his clients’ well being as approached through the humanistic art of therapeutic conversation with practical, in-the-world “trying out of new experiences” experimentally, as supported by insights from the field of neurobiology. I am delighted to recommend Adam Weitz LCSW.”

— Susan Gregory, Past President, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy