Welcome to the website of Belinda Seiger PhD, LCSW. Today, you are one step closer to making the changes that you may envision for yourself or your family.  My view of this process is that I am your partner in facilitating problem solving, change and growth.  Based on positive psychology and a belief in human resilience, our work together will support an exploration of strengths as well as areas of concern. I specialize in working with people dealing with anxiety, depression, bi-polar disorder, procrastination, ADD, learning differences, parent child conflicts, Adult Children of Substance Abusing Parents; gifted and Twice Exceptional children and adults, health concerns, caregiving, addictions-including technology, integrative approaches to substance abuse recovery and relapse; Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Queer individuals and couples, career change and cultural conflicts of first generation young adults.

As an experienced, licensed clinician, I know that you want tangible results from working with a therapist. I incorporate practical problem solving approaches with traditional talk-therapy techniques in a unique synthesis to help you find relief from emotional distress, achieve excellence and find answers and resources to improve your life situation. I assist you in developing tools to manage your emotions more effectively. My goal is to guide you and your family to improve functioning and the ability to cope with whatever circumstances and challenges are in your life. 

Informing our work together are the areas of  Positive Psychology, Collaborative Problem Solving, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Rational Emotive Therapy, Acceptance Therapy, Dialectal and Relational Models.

I am a general psychotherapist,  but have several areas of expertise which include the following:

• Helping people of all ages, including adolescents overcome anxiety, including social anxiety, test anxiety and performance anxiety 
  

• Overcoming procrastination and blocks to productivity 

• Divergent thinkers; highly creative, gifted/talented children, adolescents and adults
  

• Concerns of Young Adults including life direction, dealing with parents, careers etc.
  
• Parenting gifted/talented children and adolescents

• Concerns of Twice Exceptional Community/Families