Psychologist Plantation

Dr. Lisa Saponaro, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist who operates her private practice in Plantation, Florida. Dr. Saponaro is a Plantation psychologist that provides several forms of counseling including individual therapy, couples counseling, family therapy, group therapy, parental planning, and psychological testing. She has had great success in helping those dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma resolution, substance abuse, family issues, child behavior, and emotional problems. She takes the time to get to know each client and understand his or her unique strengths and weakness. This understanding enables her to use appropriate techniques, which help them achieve their treatment goals.

Florida Psychologist, Plantation

Dr. Saponaro uses her experience and knowledge as a Plantation psychologist to provide her clients with support and useful feedback. She helps clients identify their strengths, overcome obstacles in their path, and reach their potential for personal growth. South Florida residents in search of a Florida psychologist can contact Dr. Saponaro by phone (954) 560-9567. Clients can also contact Dr. Saponaro via email at Drsaponaro@gmail.com or by completing the online contact form under the “Contact Me”; tab. Dr. Lisa Saponaro serves Plantation (zip codes 33311, 33312, 33313, 33317, 33318) and surrounding cities of Sunrise and Davie, Florida. Her practice is located off University Drive at 120 S. University Drive, Suite A in Plantation, Florida.  

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Plantation Florida Counseling

As the days grow short, the weather becomes challenging, and stress builds, this time of year can leave many people feeling overwhelmed. Counseling can help clients to improve communication skills, relationships, and self-image. Dr. Lisa Saponaro, PhD. is a Plantation, FL Psychologist who helps people to enjoy more peaceful and balanced lives. She provides guidance, support, and expertise as her clients take this journey of self-discovery and personal goals. She serves clients from Plantation (33326, 33324, 33325) and the surrounding areas of Sunrise and Davie Florida.

Couples and Family Counseling Plantation

Dr. Saponaro is a licensed clinical psychologist that provides psychological testing, individual therapy, couples counseling in Plantation, family counseling, and group therapy. She has had great success in helping clients to overcome substance abuse, family issues, and relationship concerns. Dr. Lisa Saponaro, PhD. Performs counseling services from her private practice located off University Drive in Plantation Florida. Her office provides an understanding and supportive environment, where she is able to help her clients identify their strengths, overcome obstacles, and reach personal growth. To learn more about counseling from Plantation FL psychologist Dr. Lisa Saponaro, PhD. call (954) 560-9567.  

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Coping with Relationship Conflict

Couples can seek counseling at any level of the relationship. They can seek pre-marital counseling, marital counseling, or counseling for marital dissolution. Counseling is intended to help couples improve and maintain healthy, long-lasting relationships. In the event of separation, the goal is to help the couple part ways in a peaceful and respectful manner. Counseling can help both parties better understand and resolve conflict. Couples counseling Plantation can help improve relationships dealing with chronic arguing, anger, infidelity, divorce, substance abuse, finances, and other common concerns.

Coping with Relationship Changes

A relationship can become stressed due to changes, such as role changes, retirement, unemployment, illness, or other situations. Partners can feel separated, frustrated, or overwhelmed with a variety of emotions from these changes. Couples counseling can help both parties to understand one another and provide tools for improved communication and conflict resolution. Couples can learn how to be supportive to one another. This can help the couple to reconnect and grow in their relationship. Psychologist Plantation Florida, Dr. Saponaro serves couples in Plantation (33322, 33323, 33324, 33325), Sunrise, and Davie. To inquire about an appointment for couples counseling Plantation call (954) 560-9567 or send an email to Drsaponaro@gmail.com.  

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Professional Plantation Psychologist

Dr. Saponaro uses her professional knowledge and experience as a counseling psychologist to provide resolution for her clients concerns, while helping them to improve personal well-being. Her counseling methods and approaches are based on the needs of the client and the presenting problem. She provides healthy support and practical feedback to those willing to explore life patterns and look for new ways of achieving their goals. Dr. Saponaro specializes in individual, couples, and family psychotherapy. Visit http://lsaponaro.com.

Plantation Psychologist Promotes Personal Growth & Wellness

Dr. Lisa Saponaro is a Florida licensed clinical psyhcologist who beleives that counseling can change lives, by increasing a client's self-esteem, improving their communication skills, and personal emotional control. Counseling has proven to be benficial and positive for many people, helping them to enjoy more satisfying lives. To speak with Dr. Lisa Saponaro, PhD; visit her online at http://lsaponaro.com or call (954)-560-9567. She maintains her private practice in her hometown of Plantation, Florida and is currnetly accepting new clients.  

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Strength Based Psychologist, Plantation

Dr. Saponaro counsels each client with empathy, understanding, and support. She understands that for many people it is a difficult decision to accept counseling services. Counseling is not a sign of weakness, it is in fact a sign of personal strength. It shows the dedication that the client has to resolving their life issues. Dr. Saponaro helps each client to see their own personal strengths and shows them how to use these strengths to resolve life conflicts. Visit http://lsaponaro.com.

Counseling: Personal Growth & Well-Being

Counseling can help a person to find a tangible solution to help them overcome life obstacles. Dr. Lisa Saponaro, PhD. provides counseling services for individuals, couples, and families experiencing:

• Depression

• Mood Disorders

• Anxiety

• Adjustment Disorder

• Relationship Issues

• Addiction

• Suicidal Thoughts

• Anger

• Trauma

• Eating Disorders

Dr. Saponaro has over twelve years of experience in counseling couples, families, teens, and individuals seeking personal growth and well-being. Life can throw hurtles in our path. Counseling can help us to discover the tools to help us move beyond these hurtles in a positive way. Dr. Saponaro is always available with a listening ear, honest care and concern for her patients, and the utmost respect for anyone who seeks her services as a psychologist of Plantation, Florida.

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What are the major kinds of anxiety disorders?

There are several major types of anxiety disorders, each with its own characteristics.

People with generalized anxiety disorder have recurring fears or worries, such as about health or finances, and they often have a persistent sense that something bad is just about to happen. The reason for the intense feelings of anxiety may be difficult to identify. But the fears and worries are very real and often keep individuals from concentrating on daily tasks.

Panic disorder involves sudden, intense and unprovoked feelings of terror and dread. People who suffer from this disorder generally develop strong fears about when and where their next panic attack will occur, and they often restrict their activities as a result.
A related disorder involves phobias, or intense fears, about certain objects or situations. Specific phobias may involve things such as encountering certain animals or flying in airplanes, whereas social phobias involve fear of social settings or public places.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by persistent, uncontrollable and unwanted feelings or thoughts (obsessions) and routines or rituals in which individuals engage to try to prevent or rid themselves of these thoughts (compulsions). Examples of common compulsions include washing hands or cleaning house excessively for fear of germs, or checking over something repeatedly for errors.
Someone who suffers severe physical or emotional trauma such as from a natural disaster or serious accident or crime may experience post-traumatic stress disorder. Thoughts, feelings and behavior patterns become seriously affected by reminders of the event, sometimes months or even years after the traumatic experience.

Symptoms such as shortness of breath, racing heartbeat, trembling and dizziness often accompany certain anxiety disorders such as panic and generalized anxiety disorders. Although they may begin at any time, anxiety disorders often surface in adolescence or early adulthood. There is some evidence of a genetic or family predisposition to certain anxiety disorders.

Why is it important to seek treatment for these disorders?

If left untreated, anxiety disorders can have severe consequences. For example, some people who suffer from recurring panic attacks avoid at all costs putting themselves in a situation that they fear may trigger an attack. Such avoidance behavior may create problems by conflicting with job requirements, family obligations or other basic activities of daily living.

Many people who suffer from an untreated anxiety disorder are prone to other psychological disorders, such as depression, and they have a greater tendency to abuse alcohol and other drugs. Their relationships with family members, friends and coworkers may become very strained. And their job performance may falter.

Are there effective treatments available for anxiety disorders?

Absolutely. Most cases of anxiety disorder can be treated successfully by appropriately trained health and mental health care professionals.

There are several approaches to psychotherapy - including cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, psychodynamic and other kinds of 'talk therapy' - that can help individuals address problems with anxiety. Psychotherapy offers people the opportunity to identify and learn to manage the factors that contribute to their anxiety.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, research has demonstrated that both "behavioral therapy" and "cognitive therapy" can be highly effective in treating anxiety disorders. Behavioral therapy involves using techniques to reduce or stop the undesired behavior associated with these disorders. For example, one approach involves training patients in relaxation and deep breathing techniques to counteract the agitation and hyperventilation (rapid, shallow breathing) that accompany certain anxiety disorders.

Through cognitive therapy, patients learn to understand how their thoughts contribute to the symptoms of anxiety disorders, and how to change those thought patterns to reduce the likelihood of occurrence and the intensity of reaction. The patient's increased cognitive awareness is often combined with behavioral techniques to help the individual gradually confront and tolerate fearful situations in a controlled, safe environment.

Proper and effective medications may have a role in treatment along with psychotherapy. In cases where medications are used, the patient's care may be managed collaboratively by a therapist and physician. It is important for patients to realize that there are side effects to any drugs, which must be monitored closely by the prescribing physician.

How can a qualified therapist help someone suffering from an anxiety disorder?

Licensed psychologists are highly qualified to diagnose and treat anxiety disorders. Individuals suffering from these disorders should seek a provider who is competent in cognitive and behavioral therapies. Experienced mental health professionals have the added benefit of having helped other patients recover from anxiety disorders.

Family psychotherapy and group psychotherapy (typically involving individuals who are not related to one another) offer helpful approaches to treatment for some patients with anxiety disorders. In addition, mental health clinics or other specialized treatment programs dealing with specific disorders such as panic or phobias may also be available nearby.

How long does psychological treatment take?

It is very important to understand that treatments for anxiety disorders do not work instantly. The patient should be comfortable from the outset with the general treatment being proposed and with the therapist with whom he or she is working. The patient's cooperation is crucial, and there must be a strong sense that the patient and therapist are collaborating as a team to remedy the anxiety disorder.

No one plan works well for all patients. Treatment needs to be tailored to the needs of the patient and to the type of disorder, or disorders, from which the individual suffers. A therapist and patient should work together to assess whether a treatment plan seems to be on track. Adjustments to the plan sometimes are necessary, since patients respond differently to treatment.

Many patients will begin to improve noticeably within eight to ten sessions, especially those who carefully follow the outlined treatment plan.

There is no question that the various kinds of anxiety disorders can severely impair a person's functioning in work, family and social environments. But the prospects for long-term recovery for most individuals who seek appropriate professional help are very good. Those who suffer from anxiety disorders can work with a qualified and experienced therapist such as a licensed psychologist to help them regain control of their feelings and thoughts -- and their lives.

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Adolescent therapy can be offered in-group sessions where the family members or other adolescents meet together face to face with the therapist and discuss the issues and concerns at hand or through individual sessions that are one on one private discussions between a single person and the therapist. Either method of adolescent therapy can be beneficial. Clients are able to freely discuss their thoughts, feelings and concerns in a safe and comfortable atmosphere. Finding the right therapy session is both a matter of personal preference, comfort and support of the therapist that provides counseling theories and techniques that lead to personal growth and wellness. After assessment the therapist may recommend one session technique over another if they see that the benefits of one theory outweigh another.

Adolescent therapy is simply a tool that enables adolescents to nurture their relationships with friends and family, change negative behaviors and work towards the development of self-understanding and personal growth. Family conflict can be resolved through adolescent therapy as well as family counseling. This can be in the form of an intervention for a teen who has a substance abuse problem, support for a loved one who has experienced trauma (Rape, Divorce, Death, etc.). Each client brings his or her own interpersonal conflict, values, ethics and opinions to adolescent therapy. It is the support that is shared through the therapist that can rebuild relationships and reach set goals for health and happiness. Dr. Lisa Saponaro of Plantation Florida offers group therapy and specializes in individual, couples and family therapy. She offers a variety of tools to help clients reach balanced living and experience personal growth.

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Prestigious Counseling Expertise

Dr. Saponaro has over 12 years of experience as a mental health practitioner, holding a doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Memphis and a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling from Nova Southeastern University. She is a practical, interactive, evidence-based therapist using a treatment approach that provides support and constructive feedback that helps each client resolve current problems and long-standing patterns. She uses a wide variety of counseling theories and techniques to help find the best methods to overcome the concern at hand. Dr. Lisa Saponaro helps apply the cognitive behavioral principles of change to their lives.

Counseling Can Change Lives

Dr. Saponaro works with each client to help them build on their strengths and to     identify and achieve life goals. She believes in Social learning theory or SLT which is the theory that people learn new behavior through reinforcement. If people observe positive, desired outcomes in the observed behavior, then they are more likely to model, imitate, and adopt the behavior themselves.

Counseling Can Be Beneficial

There are a variety of Benefits that clients can receive from counseling. The Marymount College of Manhattan reports that counseling can help people to achieve more satisfaction in life, increase your self-esteem, improve relationships with others, gain greater personal control over your emotions, understand how unhelpful patterns and cycles are negatively affecting your life and  learn new ways to deal with your concerns. Lisa Saponaro, PhD is here for her clients to listen to their concerns with care, confidentiality, and respect in order to work through and achieve a healthier, happier and more balanced life.
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There are multiple areas of psychological testing services that can be beneficial in a mental health diagnostics testing for cognitive ability and IQ, psychoeducational testing, ADHD diagnosis, Autism diagnosis, Asperger’s and other pervasive developmental disorders, social and emotional well being, personality testing, parenting ability  and career readiness.  These tests can assist in a proper diagnosis and suitable treatment method prescription that can improve a person’s mental health and well-being allowing them the opportunity to make personal alterations to improve their lives in areas of education, work, social and self.

Many people look to psychological testing when something negative occurs. Children who are highly intellectual may begin to find themselves in a class that is not challenging enough creating boredom and misbehavior. This is similar to children who have learning disabilities such as a child that is dyslexic who may choose not to do homework because of the frustration. ADHD  can be found in both children and adults causing thought disruptions and lack of focus. Through psychological testing these areas can be diagnosed and guided help can be recommended in order to better address the concern that is creating disatisfaction in one’s life.

Psychological testing allows a person to recognize what the key problem is for their troubles and how to correct behavior or repetitive patterns removing the distress and creating mental health improvement and self healing. For psychological testing in Broward County, Plantation and South Florida visit http://lsaponaro.com.

Dr. Lisa Saponaro specializes in individual, couples and family psychotherapy as well as psychological testing offering these services from her private practice in Plantation Florida.

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This same study showed that patients who actively participate in a positive psychotherapy program may enjoy higher self esteem, better control of stress, an increase in positive self image and better understanding of how to cope when stressful situations occur. There are numerous cases where patients make progress towards accomplishing their goals and by conquering the  initial problems that led them to therapy, find the process of therapy rewarding and choose to continue on a path of personal growth.  Dr. Lisa Saponaro offers such therapy through support, encouragement, and increased awareness on this journey of self-discovery and personal growth.

By resolving personal conflicts and increasing one’s personal well being patients are better able to enjoy their place in society and enjoy healthier, happier relationships  with spouses, family members and  coworkers for a more balanced life. Dr. Lisa Saponaro specializes in individual therapy in South Florida, couples therapy in Broward county and family therapy in Plantation utilizing techniques that have been proven to be effective with specific issues. She incorporates a blend of  conventional and alternative approaches, drawing upon a variety of styles and techniques to  deliver a service that will be most helpful for each client.

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