Michael Uebel

Background

About Michael Uebel

In my work as a psychotherapist, I begin with the rather egoistic premise that a person’s highest moral purpose is the achievement of peace and contentment. While contentment may be a goal that one is always striving for, rather than attaining fully, there are certain actions we can undertake to lay the groundwork for the values that make it possible. My commitment to the values of social work practice, especially those of self-efficacy and self-mastery, and to the methods of psychotherapy, which involve the careful tracing out of the threads of desire and love in our lives, guides me in helping people find their optimal path and place in life. Drawing upon my humanistic background (PhD in Literature), and my teaching experience in critical theory and philosophy, I offer clients innovative ways to work toward authenticity, self-regard, intimacy, integrity, and joy. Areas of Therapeutic Focus:* Interpersonal (finding connection; working through ambivalence or hatred)* Mood (rediscovering pleasure; defeating boredom or fear; reframing depressed thinking or anger; building compassion)* Existential (finding meaning; enhancing “being”)* Goal Achievement (becoming productive; undoing self-defeat)* Trauma (living with loss, death and dying; resolving mourning)* Identity (seeking uniqueness or self-actualization) Approaches:* Psychodynamic psychotherapy/Psychoanalysis * Humanistic psychology * Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)* Mindfulness (MBCT, MBSR) Specialties:* Trauma/PTSD * Anxiety or Fears * Loss or Grief * Relationship Issues * Spirituality * Depression * Addictions or Substance Abuse * Thinking Disorders * Masochistic/Self-Defeating Issues