 Staff Qualifications At Lepage Associates we make every effort to provide you with the highest quality mental health services available. To join the Lepage Associates team, our therapists and evaluators must have the highest education available in mental health: all psychologists at Lepage Associates hold doctorate degrees in psychology. (At times we may also have doctoral students in training.) Your service provider will also hold other master and undergraduate level degrees in psychology and/or related areas, and may have additional specialty certifications or training. While all of our psychologists are trained as generalists, each also has unique areas of expertise, and we pride ourselves on the breadth of specialties we are able to offer clients. 
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Philosophy As a group of strong diagnosticians with a breadth of specialties, our early understanding in treatment of the problem results in more targeted interventions and thus more successful treatment. We subscribe to a solution-focus philosophy, in which we strive to address the problem as quickly as possible, but also with enough depth to avoid relapse. We set well-defined goals early in treatment with adults and couples, or with children/teenagers and their families, so we can find successful solutions and change behavior problems, emotional difficulties, academic difficulties, or family problems as soon as possible. Our focus on solutions encompasses both our understanding of what a client is seeking when utilizing psychological services, and how we as clinicians perceive self-determination as the cornerstone of experiencing contentment. Our philosophy of Solution-Based Psychological Services reflects a commitment to a problem-solving approach. We recognize that, broken down to the most basic level, people seek psychological services when they are experiencing a problem that they would like solved. Our philosophy of Solution-Based Psychological Services also expands to our treatment philosophy in that, as clinicians, we believe that people have the ability to create a self and a lifestyle that they find pleasurable most of the time. With a solution base as our guiding principle, we challenge clients to take a proactive role in exploring potentially successful solutions to improve their level of contentment today and in the future. Practice Philosophy vs. Therapeutic Orientation or Therapy Format Solution-Based Psychological Services is a business philosophy; it is not a therapeutic orientation and does not rely on any one therapy format. For example, a client may reach a solution with a clinician working from a psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, experiential, or systems orientation. Solutions may be reached in individual, couples, group or family therapy formats, or in workplace interventions. In psychological assessments, solutions to the referral question are suggested in the recommendations section of the report. Logo  Though the pieces are not currently fitting together, you can see that with some movement, the green pieces would come together to form a green outer circle and the small blue circle would fit within the larger green circle. This represents our commitment to keep services based on helping clients discover solutions that work in their lives for the problems they sought help for. The colors were chosen based on the meanings that have typically been ascribed to them. The outer circle is green because green is the color of the element of the Earth, and symbolizes life itself. Similarly, green is related to growth, healing, and fertility, and is also said to represent prosperity, luck, and cooperation. Green is thought to give stability, endurance and quietude; studies have found that the color green lowers blood pressure, relaxes the nervous system, and calms the mind. The inner circle is blue because blue is the color of the element of Water, and symbolizes healing, peace, the psyche, patience, and happiness. Blue is also thought to have a calming effect. Thus the solution that brings contentment is at the base of their life. Motto Life isn’t about finding yourself ~ Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw) |
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