The Center for
Cognitive-Behavioral
Psychotherapy
Suite #4
137 East 36th Street
New York, NY 10016
212.686-6886
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Dr. Phillipson now offers Skype, it allows for video conferencing, in which a face to face can be achieved with anyone around the globe. This service is offered at no additional charge and is very user friendly, please refer to the link to download the free software.
www.skype.com
The video conferencing sessions are now payable through PayPal. PayPal is a safer, easier way to pay without exposing credit card or bank account information.
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A highly effective treatment alternative for individuals living outside of the metropolitan New York area. (In recent years, Dr. Phillipson has successfully worked with clients from around the world.) This option is available for persons who do not otherwise have access to expert treatment. Approximately eight years ago, when Dr. Phillipson's first article received national distribution on treatment for the purely-obsessional client, he received numerous phone calls from persons who did not have available to them local expert assistance for their particular form of OCD.
212.686-6886
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Primarily cognitive-behavioral interventions, including exposure with response prevention, cognitive restructuring, relaxation training, social skills training, and stress management. Individualized home based challenges are an essential component of the therapeutic process. Typically persons have to be willing to commit a total of 15 to 20 minutes per day toward their between session therapeutic process. The exercises are generally based on a graded hierarchy from least to most challenging exposures.
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Weekly Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder groups co-led by Dr. Phillipson and graduate
interns. Groups meet Tuesday evening 6:45pm and Friday evening at
6pm. Each group lasts an hour and a half and consists of approximately
eight to twelve people. Fee for group is $45 per week. The group's
specific focus involves more senior members providing newer members
with support and guidance related to their own progress. The group
has a behavioral component to it and generally each week home-based
challenges are assigned. The group is a great opportunity for persons
to establish relations with others who can appreciate the daily challenges
of this potentially disabling condition.
For those clients with particular subtypes of OCD, such as hoarding or contaminating, home-visits may be available to conduct in vivo flooding and exposure exercises. What this translates into is the opportunity to have professionally trained help available to guide clients through the challenging home-based exercises. Generally these exercises are conducted in a very gradual systematic approach. Research findings suggest that behavior therapy's potency is increased through greater frequency of weekly exercises, which is reinforced during the home visits with the therapist. Ultimately, these exercises, conducted in the presence of the therapist, are performed independently by the client.
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Within recent years obsessive-compulsive disorder has been classified as a handicapping condition. Therefore, persons who qualify for this diagnosis have special privileges available to them pertaining to standardized testing procedures. Tests such as the SAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT have special testing conditions available to those with handicapping conditions, whereby these tests might be read to the subject, or special time extensions may be granted.
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