LENA AGREE, JD, PSYD Licensed Psychologist

Products And Services

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  Individual Therapy

  Through therapy, Dr. Agree will help you understand and overcome the internal obstacles that prevent you from enjoying a full and gratifying life. Therapy is also a place to discover and develop your untapped personal potential, awakening the dormant sense of vitality and excitement that you long to recapture. Science cannot explain how and why effective therapy works. But it remains the only way to achieve lasting relief from emotional pain, as well as increased joy and resilience. Unlike like “quick fixes” and short-term remedies, long-term therapy improves the way your brain processes information so that you actually think and feel better.

  Link: Individual Therapy

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  Couples Therapy

  Committed relationships are complex and challenging. If you’d like to repair or rekindle your intimate bond, couples therapy may be the solution. Couples therapy can help you and your partner reignite, or perhaps discover for the first time, a sense of: Connection, Security, Adoration, Humor, Intimacy, Appreciation, and Understanding. Dr. Agree takes a comprehensive approach to couples therapy. Drawing on her proficiency in several disciplines, she will help you and your partner learn to: Manage disagreements better Communicate more effectively Increase positive emotions Enhance your friendship Dr. Agree approaches your relationship from multiple perspectives, including Gottman Method Couples Therapy and a Mentalization-Based approach to couples and families. The Gottman Method is based on over 40 years of research with couples. The Gottmans have discovered what leads relationships to fail and characteristics that help relationships succeed. Using this method, Dr. Agree will guide you through exercises that teach you to communicate with your partner in ways he or she is more likely to hear and understand. The Mentalization-Based approach focuses on expanding your capacity for empathy towards yourself and your partner. It also helps you identify and begin to question assumptions that cause you to interpret your partner’s behavior in ways that make you feel inadequate or upset, so that you can see your relationship in a more favorable light. For more information on MBT, click here. Dr. Agree is pleased to work with couples of all genders, sexual identities and preferences, to help them improve their communication skills and overall relationship satisfaction.

  Link: Couples Therapy

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  Personal Coaching

  Through coaching, Dr. Agree helps high-functioning individuals develop goals and chart a course towards personal and professional achievement. Coaching is a fairly focused endeavor: Dr. Agree will help you define and implement specific objectives that you deem meaningful and essential to your success. Unlike other coaches, Dr. Agree draws from her knowledge and experience as a licensed psychologist and accomplished attorney. Many people refer to themselves as “coaches,” but Dr. Agree combines psychological science and theory with a practical ground game to help you advance to the next level. In addition, since she operates under a psychology license, Dr. Agree is required to observe the highest professional and ethical standards in the industry.

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  Parenting Support

  Parenting is the most formidable task in the world, and most of us do it without enough physical and emotional support. If you are suffering as a parent, you may believe you just have to “suck it up,” tolerate feeling terrible and wait-out the rough patches. But this is a myth. If you are overwhelmed too much of the time, something is wrong. Unlike parenting classes, Dr. Agree’s parent support sessions focus exclusively on your relationship with your child. This is intense and targeted work, aimed at improving your reflective functioning (also called the capacity to Mentalize). You will learn to relate to your child in an entirely new way – one that is more sensitive, positive and enjoyable. Reflective functioning is the ability to view behavior in terms of underlying intention. In other words, we consider what thoughts, feelings, beliefs and desires might underlie a person’s action (or inaction). In reflective parenting we look beyond our child’s behaviors in an effort to understand “Why might my child be doing that”? We also learn to ask similar questions about our self. When we do this, we glean new perspectives that free us from the spiral of frustration and helplessness.

  Link: Parenting Support

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  Personality Assessment

  Have you wondered why you engage in unhealthy relationships, make choices you later regret, or remain unsatisfied in your professional or personal life? How do you know what to change? If you would like some efficient but meaningful answers, Dr. Agree’s comprehensive personality assessment was developed for you.

  Link: Personality Assessment