First Steps, after Millet, Vincent Van Gogh, 1890, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Possibilities
Are you seeking productive support for coming to terms with what is troubling you? You are taking an important and positive step by seeking professional help.
You may feel you need seasoned, skilled insight into understanding your emotional and/or behavioral challenges. Your aim may also be to develop new psychological growth that will, in turn, strengthen yourself as you pursue your life goals and manage life’s inevitable crises.
None of us can change the facts of our previous life events. However, we can work together to more broadly and insightfully process your memories and experiences, whether fresh or deeply embedded.
By developing an informed understanding of your psychological complexities during our confidential sessions, we become prepared to constructively deal with your conflicts and issues. Within a relational context, the therapy process can underwrite a healthier, more sturdy capacity for resolution in your life.
Frames
In a comfortable and supportive atmosphere, I offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each of person's individual needs to help them attain the personal growth for which they strive. I provide confidential, individual, couples and family counseling and am prepared to work with a broad range of emotional and behavioral issues from intensive individual therapy for depression, supportive grief counseling, and parenting support, to couples therapy, marriage preparation, and beyond. In my capacity as a certified clinical psychoanalyst I offer psychoanalysis to persons who want to explore their deepest-seated conflicts and the troubling hindrances to happiness in their lives.
Specialized treatments include:
Individual Psychotherapy for Adults (18 to 85)
Psychotherapy for Depression and Anxiety
Couples Therapy and Pre-Marital Counseling
Grief Counseling
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD)
Family Counseling
Parenting Support
Work and Career Issues
Clinical Consultation to licensed therapists
Background
I earned my B.A. with a dual major in Psychology and Environmental Sciences and a minor in Cultural Anthropology from Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles in 1976, attended California State University, Northridge, where I received my Masters in Counseling in 1978, and became licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in 1979.
After being awarded my Psy.D. doctorate in psychoanalysis from The Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, I maintain my relationship with them as a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst.
With over 30 years of specialized individual, couples and family therapy and psychoanalysis, I am available for clinical consultation for licensed California professionals throughout the field of psychotherapy.
My private practice is in Sherman Oaks, serving all of the Los Angeles region with in-person appointments, as well as telehealth state-wide.
Please feel free to reach out:
(818) 995-8444
drs@joyschary.com
Appointments:
Monday - Thursday, 9am - 6pm