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		<h2>    Ariel Axelrod, LMHC</h2>		
		<h2 style="text-align: center;">Specialties</h2><p><strong>Executive Function</strong></p><p>Procrastination. Disorganization. Always walking a tightrope of trying to use innate spontaneity without falling into impulsivity. Therapy can be an opportunity to rewrite the narrative and build skills to address obstacles and make the most of strengths.</p><p><b>Issues with Technology</b></p><p>We risk an error of oversimplification when we classify all technological struggle as addiction—as current diagnostic manuels are wont to do. Interactive interfaces are often designed to hold attention or wear down personal boundaries for purposes not necessarily germane to one’s purposes for interaction. If this is an area of concern, we can build and test strategies to create greater resilience.</p><p><strong>Relationship Conflicts</strong></p><p>We are social creatures, and each individual’s health and well-being exists within the matrix of familial and social relationships. When those relationships are difficult, conflicted, or stressful, the brain experiences that sense of separation as pain.</p>		
		<p><strong>Creativity and Mastery</strong></p><p>Creativity and mastery (of craft, of a sport, of a language, of self) affirm our ability to build things in the world that are undeniably of us. When we lose that, it can feel permanent (it doesn't have to be), and it can inspire fear (fear is a tool that can help us find our way again). This particular loss sometimes goes unnoticed in our big books of diagnoses and treatment. But I believe it deserves recognition and redress.</p><p><strong>Body Image and Self-Esteem</strong></p><p>How we see ourselves—physically and mentally—is strongly affected by external factors and can in turn influence what grabs our attention in daily life. It can be helpful to identify external influences on self-image in the here-and-now and from the lessons learned growing up in order to understand the interplay between body image, self-esteem, and lived experience.</p><p><strong>Life Transitions</strong></p><p>Graduating from college and entering the workplace. Transitioning out of a professional athletic career. Giving birth or adopting a child. Acclimating to life after an injury. Taking on a new role in the workplace. We sometimes don't recognize the time and energy needed to adjust to changes in self-identity. Therapy is a place where we can give life transitions the attention and respect they require. When we do so, they can reward us with wisdom and the chance to turn loss into growth and positive change.</p><p><strong>Anxiety and Stress Management</strong></p><p>Anxiety is a near-universal experience, as its physiological components make up part of a system that helps the human body react appropriately to acute stressors. Yet, today’s stressors are often a mixture of acute and chronic, leading to confusing and alarming anxiety symptoms that can feel scary and out of place.</p><p><strong>Depression</strong></p><p>Everyone feels a bit down sometimes, but when that sometimes stretches toward the horizon or you find it more and more difficult to find pleasure in activities that used to bring joy, you may be experiencing depression rather than a typical bout of sadness.</p><p><strong>Grief and Loss</strong></p><p>Loss takes many forms, and it's not unusual to feel mired in one's grief or experience a conflict between the need to mourn and the desire to rejoin the world temporarily exited when a painful loss happens.</p>		
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