Simon Benarroch (he/him)

IPT is an evidence-based, planned approach to relieving anxiety or depression symptoms by examining problematic relationships in the client's life. I love this approach because it provides an agenda for clients who prefer to know where they're situated in the therapy at any given time, but it also allows us to discover unexpected and important connections between relationship stresses and overall wellbeing.

This is the standard treatment for OCD, and there's a lot of evidence showing that it's pretty effective for some people. My training was in a combined approach with psychodynamic therapy, which emphasizes understanding symptoms in addition to lessening them. The deeper understanding enables us to understand the symptoms better and gives the client tools for coping before we start the hard work of exposure/response prevention.

This is my main clinical focus. It places a lot of stress on development, attachment, and the unconscious. The basic idea is that the things that happen to us in our past interfere with how we experience the present. Our symptoms are meaningful in that they indicate ways we've become stuck in perceiving the world and managing our anxieties. Through compassionate, careful exploration of the past-in-the-present, we come to a richer understanding of what drives us and what holds us back.

This is the standard treatment for OCD, and there's a lot of evidence showing that it's fairly effective for some people. My training was in a combined approach with psychodynamic therapy, which emphasizes understanding symptoms in addition to lessening them. This deeper understanding enables us to understand the symptoms better and gives the client tools for coping before we start the hard work of exposure/response prevention.