With over three decades of experience, Dr. LaValle offers psychotherapy, meditation training, and life coaching to adults, adolescents, children, families, and couples. Dr. LaValle is a licenced psychologist and is accredited by the National Register of Health Service Providers. His areas of specialization include trauma / PTSD recovery, depression and anxiety, life transitions, attachment wounds, relationship conflicts, and meditation training.
He adopts a collaborative approach in his work with clients, seeking to help mobilize their inner resources to accomplish the growth, resolution, and healing they seek. Dr. LaValle utilizes mindfulness-based interventions and meditation practices extensively in his work with clients.
He adopts a collaborative approach in his work with clients, seeking to help mobilize their inner resources to accomplish the growth, resolution, and healing they seek. Dr. LaValle utilizes mindfulness-based interventions and meditation practices extensively in his work with clients.
Services
As the name suggests, individual therapy is all about the patient as an individual. Therapy sessions typically last about an hour and the frequency of appointments will depend on your specific course of therapy. Dr. LaValle provides a warm, safe and comfortable setting where you can expect to be treated with respect, understanding and compassion.
Parents and other caregivers have an enormous influence on the development of a child's brain. When those figures provide attentive care, a child's neural pathways develop positively and the child learns to regulate emotions. When a child's needs go consistently unmet, however, effective pathways cannot form, compromising a child's sense of security and the ability to actualize their potential.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that result from disturbing life experiences. The success of this treatment approach over the past 26 years has challenged the long-held belief that it takes many years to recover from anxiety, panic, disturbing memories, and post traumatic stress.
Relationships should provide both partners with a sense of happiness and fulfillment, but can often end up in conflict, confusion and hurt feelings. Intimate relationships are often challenged by work and parenting stress, financial difficulty, vocational unhappiness and unresolved childhood/past relationship issues.
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an empirically-supported 8-week program designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion. Based on the groundbreaking research of Kristen Neff and the clinical expertise of Chris Germer, a leader in the integration of mindfulness and psychotherapy, MSC teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to difficult moments in their lives with kindness, care, and understanding.
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