My name is Stuart Cohen, and I have been a practicing therapist to children, adolescents, and adults for over 30 years. During this time, I have trained extensively on various treatment methods with the goal to provide skillful, effective, and compassionate counseling. I primarily use best practice short-term therapies and, when appropriate, provide Family Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Mindfulness.
I have extensive education in order to utilize a variety of tools and techniques to help clients. These include: Coursework in Beck Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Based Therapy, Family Systems, Gottman Marital Therapy, Schema Focused Cognitive Therapy, Nurtured Heart Approach, Completion of Rutgers Advanced Certificate in Social Work for People With Developmental Disabilities.
Additional areas of focus: LGBT, Relationship issues, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Bipolar disorder, Depression, Coping with life changes, Abandonment, Aging and Geriatric Issues, Attachment issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Avoidant Personality, Blended Family Issues, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain illness and disability, Codependency, Commitment Issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with Natural or Human-Caused Disaster, Dependent Personality, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Emptiness, Family of Origin Issues, Family Problems, Fatherhood Issues, First Responder Issues, Forgiveness, Gender Dysphoria, Guilt and shame, Hoarding, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Intellectual Disability, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Military and Veterans Issues, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders , Narcissism, Obsessions, Compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Post-traumatic stress, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-love, Sexual Dysfunction, Sexuality, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young Adult Issues
Clinical approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Gottman Method, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy