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Dr. Friedman has a general practice with an emphasis on intensive psychotherapy with adults. In addition, he teaches and supervises psychiatric residents and graduate students, as well as established psychotherapists in the community. He is currently a a Clinical Supervisor for the Maple Counseling Center in Los Angeles.
Dr. Friedman's particular areas of expertise have included working with patients struggling with issues of depression, loss, grief, trauma, anxiety and self-esteem. Different approaches may be optimally effective for treating different types of problems, but the basis for good psychotherapy lies most in building a unique relationship that promotes conditions for growth.
Many of Dr. Friedman's patients choose to engage in a more intensive and extended process of working through persistent conflicts in service of developing a more generalized and self-sustaining resilience across different areas of concern. He also provides brief "symptom-focused therapy," in which the emphasis of treatment is more on the easing or resolution of more immediate concerns.
Dr. Friedman believes that his own life experiences and personal psychotherapy have provided the strongest basis of coming to know in his bones that which he' seeks to help others with. He feels that to develop the deepest empathy for another's struggles, it is essential that one knows from the inside what it is to sincerely grapple with one's own personal conflicts and to come out the other side with lasting improvement. Sometimes a sense of authentic hope must be carried by the therapist during the patient's hardest periods of doubt or despair. This awareness is often his greatest tool for being companion and guide for his patients during their own journey through troubled waters.
Dr. Friedman is committed to providing a safe and supportive environment to assist his patients to become more self-aware and independent in their search for meaning and self-realization in life.
Dr. Friedman's particular areas of expertise have included working with patients struggling with issues of depression, loss, grief, trauma, anxiety and self-esteem. Different approaches may be optimally effective for treating different types of problems, but the basis for good psychotherapy lies most in building a unique relationship that promotes conditions for growth.
Many of Dr. Friedman's patients choose to engage in a more intensive and extended process of working through persistent conflicts in service of developing a more generalized and self-sustaining resilience across different areas of concern. He also provides brief "symptom-focused therapy," in which the emphasis of treatment is more on the easing or resolution of more immediate concerns.
Dr. Friedman believes that his own life experiences and personal psychotherapy have provided the strongest basis of coming to know in his bones that which he' seeks to help others with. He feels that to develop the deepest empathy for another's struggles, it is essential that one knows from the inside what it is to sincerely grapple with one's own personal conflicts and to come out the other side with lasting improvement. Sometimes a sense of authentic hope must be carried by the therapist during the patient's hardest periods of doubt or despair. This awareness is often his greatest tool for being companion and guide for his patients during their own journey through troubled waters.
Dr. Friedman is committed to providing a safe and supportive environment to assist his patients to become more self-aware and independent in their search for meaning and self-realization in life.