Regular Office Hours
M-F 9:00am-2:00pm
All other hours are by
appointment only.
Kendra Benesch, MS, LCPC
410-207-6687
EXAMPLES OF TREATMENT MODALITIES I COMMONLY USE
Being a modern couple (or a modern couple who also parents’) is A LOT! You’re managing careers, mental health, the ghosts of relationships past and constant pressure to “communicate better.” It’s easy to end up feeling like roommates or co-managers instead of partners.
Common issues I support with my couples are:
Adjusting to life changes
Communication malfunction
Navigating divorce or parental separation
Understanding how your nervous systems operate together
Blending families
Supporting kiddos with dynamic nervous systems
Career and relationship life balance
ACT
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is an action-oriented intervention that focuses on helping clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions. Instead the client works to accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations and learns to move forward in their life with a better understanding of these feelings and the impact they have on those they care most about.
SPACE
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions focuses on teaching parents how best to respond to their child's anxious behaviors by learning to calmly accept certain levels of the child's distress, while avoiding reactions that exacerbate symptoms. Through this kind of treatment, parents can develop the tools to effectively address the worry and reduce the need to use their own accommodating behaviors.
EFCT
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy works on the pattern underneath day to day interactions. Perhaps one partner reaches, the other retreats, and each move makes the next one more likely. We slow that down until you can both see it happening in real time, and work through different ways to change it.