How to... therapy

      Dr. Tamalonis often hears "my last therapist told me to stop thinking negatively, but the therapist never told me 'how to' do that."

      The objective of her short-term therapy is to supply workable, realistic ways for you to learn exactly "how to" change your thinking and behavior patterns so that you can manage your problems more effectively.

      In conventional psychotherapy, the root cause of a problem is sought through lengthy and expensive analysis. Often this insight never changes anything in a person's life. In fact, it often cements the person in their pathology. Dr. Tamalonis' therapy addresses present situations, symptoms and provide solutions how to overcome these symptoms. While respecting a person's history, the focus is on the solution, not the cause or source of a problem.

The focus is on learning

      How to...psychotherapy builds a foundation on your pre-existing strengths, emphasizing your positive traits. By learning new ideas and different ways of behaving, you find and implement clear steps that will help you to change your life for the better. Dr. Tamalonis accentuates the positive and eliminates the negative. 

      Change-focused psychotherapy produces positive results in a remarkably short period of time, saving patients the expense of many sessions as well as the emotional anguish and dependency often associated with conventional psychotherapy.

The focus is NOT on what was and why,
but on what is and what can be...

 

Albina Tamalonis, Psy.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist

333 West 86th Street, Suite 1901B, New York, NY 10024, (212) 799-9418

Please note that all appointments and cancellations will be done by phone only.