About Jennifer Perlman, PsyD
Dr. Jennifer Perlman is a licensed psychologist with over 25 years of experience in mental health. My practice integrates mental, emotional, and physical health strategies to promote overall well-being and personal growth. I specialize in person centered, psychodynamic therapy and am dedicated to helping clients overcome their challenges. I have been trained in numerous forms of psychotherapy including Internal Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Informed Psychotherapy. Through my training, clinical work and my own life experience I’m able to bring to you a variety of tools, skills and humanity to assist you in growth and healing.
Why Therapy Works
Individual Therapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy assumes that in addition to our unique genetic makeup we are shaped by our environment, by our attachments to other people, by the separations, losses and trauma we have experienced and by the support and nurturance we did or did not receive. Our experience throughout life influences the way we see the world, the types of relationships we have, and the way we feel about ourselves. Often we cannot see how these things have affected us because it is all we have known. Symptoms such as anxiety, depression, addictions and difficulties in relationships are our systems way of alerting us to the presence of underlying issues in need of our attention.
In conjunction with the in-depth work of psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy provides symptom reduction strategies, such as working with negative thoughts, improving distress tolerance, increasing the capacity for self-soothing and self-compassion. Taken together these approaches allow us to work on short-term relief and long-term healing.
I will work with you in an empathetic, present and genuine way to help you heal. I work with all adult humans, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation.
Once we accept ourselves, change becomes possible.
Therapy Can Help
- Provide relief from acute pain and suffering.
- Address the source of your emotional aches and pains so they don't need to return time and again.
- Develop a clearer and more positive sense of self.
- Create more connected and fulfilling relationships.
- Improve your sense of well-being
- Free you from the fears that prevent you from reaching your goals.
- Improve your parenting
- Decrease stress
Stress Management
Learn how to manage stress more effectively, reduce the negative effects of stress on your health and well-being, and live a more balanced life.
Mindfulness Training
Reduce stress, improve focus, and increase your overall sense of well-being with evidence-based mindfulness training.