Ronald W. Heilmann, DCSW, BCD

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About

Ronald W. Heilmann, DCSW, BCD, Syracuse

I use three different modalities of therapy; individuals, couples and families. The chronological order of life is to go from the individual, then to the couple, and finally on to the family. When I do therapy I see myself operating in reverse, in the sense that I treat families in terms of the parents, couples in terms of the individual and individuals in terms of the families from which they have come. I see change resulting from reassessing the assumptions made about the self, couple or family from the previous stage. I see people as having survived difficult emotional situations in their lives by establishing survival mechanisms which work for the most part, albeit not very efficiently. However, when the cost of maintaining these survival skills becomes greater than facing the cost of facing the fears which created them, people are ready to change. I see myself as helping people face their demons and start a new way of living their lives.

Category

Mental Health