Psychotherapist in Private Practice
Greater New York City Area
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- Psychotherapist at Private Practice
- Couples Therapist at Private Practice
- Group Therapist at Private Practice
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- Director at Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services
- Education
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- Columbia University School of Social Work
- Oberlin College
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Michael Altshuler, LCSW, CGP’s Summary
Therapy is conversation. It is talk with a purpose. A client's goal may be to repair a failing marriage. Or gain control of a destructive temper. Their goal may be to heal the wounds of emotional or sexual abuse. Or rebuild their life after divorce or illness. Whatever the aim---whether it's finding solutions to help them cope or resolving persistent patterns of emotional distress---the client seeks a therapist whose skill and experience they can rely on. To see if we can connect in a comfortable and productive way, I invite prospective clients to talk with me. If our talk proves useful, then we arrange to continue talking as long as our conversation produces the changes they seek. And over time, as life carries them forward, the day comes when they no longer need therapy. Because the conversations they have with those they love...will be what helps them to carry on.
Michael Altshuler, LCSW, CGP’s Experience
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Psychotherapist
Private Practice
(Mental Health Care industry)
July 1989 — Present (20 years 6 months)
Utilizing a psychodynamic, solution-oriented approach to therapy with individuals, couples and groups, I specialize in relationship problems arising from chronic anger, hostility and conflict. My pragmatic orientation is effective with adolescents and adults who wish to address immediate life problems or resolve longstanding emotional difficulties.
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Couples Therapist
Private Practice
(Mental Health Care industry)
July 1989 — Present (20 years 6 months)
As a couples therapist, I treat troubled marriages. In these marriages one or both partners have begun to lose hope of having a satisfying relationship, yet neither are ready or willing to leave the marriage. In therapy we focus on reducing futile blaming and spiteful fighting. We focus on changing chronic negativity into constructive talk, respectful listening and mutual understanding. The goal is to restore closeness, trust and the capacity to find mutually satisfying solutions to the inevitable challenges of married life.
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Group Therapist
Private Practice
(Mental Health Care industry)
July 1989 — Present (20 years 6 months)
As a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP), I lead a variety of adult psychotherapy and support groups. "Using Anger Well" is an anger therapy group for men and women troubled by destructive losses-of-control and/or corrosive, unexpressed anger. Concerned about the damaging consequences of their explosive or inhibited anger, members explore how anger functions in their lives and seek better solutions to the problems that anger presents. "Repair Your Marriage Now" is a time-limited group for couples whose marriages are failing. Concerned that their marriages are at the breaking point because of the demands, tensions and frustrations of daily life, members discover how to place their marriages on a more stable, loving footing. I also conduct three groups in my professional community: a cancer-survivors support group for men (at Gilda’s Club of Westchester, NY), an experiential supervision group for therapists (for the Clinical Society of Westchester, and a clinical consultation group for group therapists (at the Pelham Clinic of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services in Bronx, NY).
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Director
Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services
(Non-Profit; Mental Health Care industry)
July 1989 — December 2006 (17 years 6 months)
Michael Altshuler, LCSW, CGP’s Education
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Columbia University School of Social Work
M.S. , Social Work , 1987 — 1989
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Oberlin College
B.A. , English Literature, Music , 1972 — 1976
Additional Information
Michael Altshuler, LCSW, CGP’s Websites:
Michael Altshuler, LCSW, CGP’s Groups:
FELLOW (National Registry of Certified Group Psychotherapists)
CLINICAL MEMBER (AGPA---American Group Psychotherapy Association)
AFFILIATE MEMBER (EGPS---Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society)
MEMBER (WGPS---Westchester Group Psychotherapy Society)
FELLOW (NYSSCSW---New York State Society for Clinical Social Work)
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Michael Altshuler, LCSW, CGP’s Honors:
MERIT SCHOLARSHIP (Columbia University School of Social Work) 1987-1989
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