Services
The first thing I will give you when we meet is my Intake Form, The Intake Form looks fairly complicated, but I don’t expect people to rush through it. By the time we have gone through it together, both of us will have an outline an understanding, the baseline information about the tasks / work that before us. This page is also a Consent Form, as my Professional College requires me to document the fact that I have obtained each client’s consent to engage in Psychological Treatment.
My practice is quite ranging, and it my intent is to provide a full range of psychological services, including counselling and psychotherapy, as well as assistance with relationships such as those with marriage partners and children, relationships in the workplace, and difficult life transitions. I can also perform various kinds of assessments such as those related to school problems or legal problems. However, as my business name implies, I have had extensive experience with urgent problems and difficult situations. Much of that experience has involved working cooperatively with my clients’ physicians, as it has become well known that medications can be very helpful with many of the problems which bring people to see me. Sometimes I notice that people have non-psychological problems that should be treated. Many people are fearful of medications, even though they are frequently invaluable. Virtually everyone has been exposed to stories about their misuse or abuse. Many of my clients have had dreadful experiences with medications. I sympathize with such fears, and I will make every effort to answer questions in a satisfactory way.
Below are the lists of problems that are on my intake form. These lists provide a broad summary of the kinds symptoms I am interested in, when I meet a new client. They give me an impression of your day-to-day life experience, which I would not have if you just told me about your main problem. I have found it helpful to group these problems into four categories, named after the top item in each column. I also try to ask about people’s nutritional habits and daily routines. I will be interested in which medications you might be taking, or have taken in the past. I will ask about the desirable and undesirable effects of your medications. It is important for me to consider all of the items from these lists which affect my clients, even though a person may come to see me for only one or two important issues. A person’s less important problems provide me with information which helps me generate useful ideas, so I sometimes ask people to indicate the severity of a symptom by circling the worst problems several times.
