Nicolas Koppelman

I have background experience working with clients who struggle with anxiety and depression, or similar symptoms, as well as substance abuse, some trauma (primarily relationship and attachment-related), and occupational or educational challenges or stressors. During my graduate program, I was placed in practicum as a career advisor and worked with undergraduate and graduate students at the university career development center. I then interned as a therapist at a substance abuse therapist...

I was trained primarily in CBT- [and] related approaches (namely, CBT-R or CBASP, and mindfulness-based CBT). I also learned to integrate other approaches that I was exposed to & trained in, as indicated and appropriate, including: dialectic behavioral, brief dynamic, solution-focused approaches, as well as Adlerian psychology, schema therapy, ABC-model & psychological first aid for trauma and crises, family systems and (Gottman) couples' therapy, as well as attachment theory, to name a few.

Typically, I collaborate with my clients to establish a basis for their individualized therapy, which would involve identifying specific symptoms or presenting concerns of theirs and increasing their awareness of any predisposition and pattern that may have led to them, behaviors or interpretations (cognitions) that may perpetuate them, and then establish goals with them for which I may implement appropriate interventions to achieve with my client(s).