Services Offered by Dr. Shoham

Individual Therapy

Whether you are coming in for anxiety, depression, relationship conflicts, career challenges or any other concerns, the primary goal is for you to feel safe enough in your treatment.  Feeling safe is crucial part of therapy allowing you to share everything that you have been holding within.  Dr. Shoham works from the perspective that every individual comes from a different background and therefore copes, feels and interacts differently with the outside world.  By gaining a deep understanding of you, your past and childhood experiences, an awareness into your emotional pain, wounds and possible trauma will be gained.  An awareness that perhaps may carry buried emotions needing to be brought alive in the room to be worked through.  It is through this work that you will come to learn why you feel and cope with life challenges the way that you do currently. These understandings are used to tailor every session towards each individuals' needs at the time by utilizing different theoretical orientations and techniques needed.  What you can expect from your therapy is not only a level of consciousness and self-awareness but also long lasting change and growth.

Couples Therapy

The goal of couples therapy may be different for each couple.  As a therapist, Dr. Shoham has no personal agenda for where the relationship should be or end up at.   Whether you're coming in for premarital or marital counseling or you're coming in to work through a divorce process, the challenges at hand will be the focus of the treatment.  The current dynamic including communication skills, level of intimacy and emotional connection will be thoroughly discussed and worded on. For deeper understanding and long lasting changes, the history of the relationship and the emotional and psychological baggage that each partner has brought into the relationship from their past will be explored. Through this work each individual will gain the needed awareness of the role they have been playing in the relationship causing the difficulties at hand.  Each partner will become more conscious of their own past emotional wounds, fears and trauma and the way in which they have leaked out in the marriage or may play out in the future.  Dr. Shoham is dedicated in making sure that each and every couple makes the changes and growth for which they came to therapy for.

Family Therapy

Family therapy can include either all members of the family or a unit within the family. Challenges such as parenting issues, sibling rivalry, co-parenting, generational differences or other difficulties may be of focus.  No matter the issues at hand,  the perception, feelings and needs of each family member will be discussed and explored.  The effect that each individual may be having on the other members in the family and the way in which they communicate will be discussed and worked on.  Dr. Shoham works to ensure that each member of the family will feel heard and understood, gaining what they came into therapy for.