Services Offered

Individual Psychotherapy:

Individual Psychotherapy is designed to provide you with regular appointments with your psychotherapist scheduled over a period of time. I will help you to work on a problem of your choice that falls within my area of expertise. Click here to see a list of areas I can help you with. Typical goals for individual psychotherapy might be improving mood, decreasing feelings of low self-esteem, improved sense of self-worth, decreased anxiety, improved relationships, and changing habits. These sessions are designed for individuals who which to overcome their challenges without medications, or who receive medications from another provider.

These appointments can range from 50min to 2.5 hours, and can be scheduled two to three times per week, to every two weeks depending upon your situation. You may want to have longer and more frequent visits at the beginning and find yourself more comfortable spacing the visits out to longer intervals as time passes, your symptoms decrease, and your mastery improves.

Consultations/Second Opinions:

Medicine, including psychiatry and psychotherapy, is an art and a science. Our understanding of the human mind continues to develop, and the approach to treatment can vary from provider to provider. Often a consumer will find a surgeon recommends surgery and a naturopath offers a naturopathic remedy. I believe each individual is ultimately in charge of and in control of his or her own health and healthcare, through the variety of daily choices he/she makes, and his/her ability to seek out information on available treatment approaches. As a physician and therapist, I feel my role is to provide information, education, and a professional perspective to assist the individual in balancing the risks and benefits of each treatment approach.

You or another health care professional may want a second opinion on diagnosis, or treatment options. Often a second opinion may be requested by a prescriber, therapist, professional, or an individual him/herself to help clarify the diagnosis, treatment options, and to get a different perspective on the issues and options. These services are available to an individual at the request of their psychiatrist, primary care physician, or mental health professional, with the specific request in writing. Alternatively an individual new to treatment might seek a consultation in order to gather information on the options available to them. Suggestions may include medication recommendations, therapy recommendations, or medical work-up recommendations. Dr. Harrington is familiar with psychiatric medications, prescribing, risks and benefits of various medications, as well as non-pharmaceutical approaches, but does not prescribe medications in her private practice. Thus an individual interested in receiving medications would need to show they have an existing relationship with a prescriber who is comfortable with prescribing psychiatric medications.

Intensive Psychotherapy or Intensive Personal Mastery

If you want results quickly and are willing to devote significant energy, Intensive Psychotherapy or Intensive Personal Mastery might be your solution. This approach is ideal for those who want to accelerate their results into a brief time frame. If you are travelling from a distance and want to dedicate a weekend to two weeks to your success this is the program for you (please send a consultation request from your current psychotherapist). Sessions can be scheduled for 2.5 hours one to three times per day over the course of 2-14 days. Homework is done between sessions, which accelerates your progress. The goal is that this focused approach of immersion will help you achieve mastery in a shortened period of time. Assignments may be given prior to arrival. You may also chose this approach if you are local, but would like to accelerate your results.

Personal Mastery/ Personal Development:

These sessions are designed for those which adequate to superior functioning who would like to develop greater personal mastery and personal leadership. Based upon the work of Dr. David Burns in psychotherapy, and Dr. Hitendra Wadwha in business leadership, these sessions can be scheduled for 100min to 2.5 hours and are designed to teach you how to go to the next level in terms of blasting through self-doubt, overcoming public-speaking phobia, and mastering interpersonal relationships. These sessions are designed for those who seek non-medication solutions to personal mastery.

Couples Therapy:

Often couples have the desire to address a specific issue in their relationship, or to improve their relationship. Relationship issues can be worked on individually or together. Couples visits can be 50min to 2.5 hours in length, scheduled regularly. It is beneficial for each person to meet with the therapist individually prior to starting couples therapy, to see if couples therapy is right for you.