Dr. Stephanie Schacher

Dr. Stephanie Schacher is a caring, empathetic psychologist who has considerable skills in helping people through crisis.  She uses a blend of exploration of past experience combined with practical, concrete advice and techniques for how to best grapple with current issues.  She is able to use her intuitive understanding of people and their complex, often deep-rooted issues, and translate this understanding into a plan of action that is tailored to each individual. She is interactive, gives feedback and direction, but also believes in each individual’s capacity to set their own goals and define their own measures of success.  She works to help identify the individual’s strengths, and to harness them in working towards meaningful change.  She believes in using a good dose of humor to help people grow and feel better about themselves. 

Dr. Schacher is psychodynamically trained, and this approach emphasizes the role that past experience has on our current way of thinking and behaving.  Sessions focus not only on understanding present circumstances but also linking them to past experiences.  Dr. Schacher has also received training in many current cognitive behavioral techniques, which emphasize identifying current unhelpful ways of thinking and acting, and correcting them through behavior modification and cognitive restructuring.  She often uses a combination of both approaches to help bring symptom relief and personal change.

Dr. Schacher works with people who are unhappy in their relationships or work, who may be in need of direction for school or career, who are in the midst of life transitions, or who have self-sabotaging behaviors such as substance abuse and anger management issues.  She has significant experience in treating various mental illnesses from anxiety and depression, to trauma, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.   

Dr. Schacher is also featured on PsychologyToday.com at

http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/55844