Degrees
M.S.W., A.C.S.W. National Accreditation,
L.C.S.W. Licensed
My Expert Service
I am currently in private practice seeing individuals, couples and families. I have 25 years of experience. My expertise is in the area of relationship issues. I have written a book on relationships called "Relationship Roulette: Improve Your Odds at Lasting Love".
Description: "Incorporating crucial psychological insights and case studies, Relationship Roulette: Improve Your Odds at Lasting Love shows how psychodynamics of which we may not be aware are often the culprit in failed quests to find lasting love. Psychotherapist Carol Diamond shows how longstanding personality patterns can interfere with getting what we really want. She teaches readers to decode repetitive behavior and describes how to initiate change so we are more likely to find lasting love.
Diamond's book focuses on understanding your own past and your partner's, as she spells out ways in which various issues emerge and can affect couples. The book explains what fuels the chemistry that repeatedly attracts us to partners who later prove a bad choice, and it discusses the variety of reasons for choosing a partner, listing basic relationship styles so the reader can identify his or her own style and how it fits with a particular partner. The final chapter offers a step-by-step blueprint to help readers change their minds and their actions—and stop playing relationship roulette."
Many individuals and couples I work with are in unhealthy relationships. I have helped these clients to achieve a healthy more satisfying relationship. Very often, they need to look at the way they communicate, and they need to learn new ways to open up communication with their partner.
Some people repetitiously choose the wrong partner. I help them to understand their own dynamics in order to be able to know why they choose the wrong people. We all need to learn how to be in a healthy relationship, and if its not healthy have the ability to leave that relationship. It's often necessary for clients to look at unresolved issues which they have not worked through, so they keep repeating these patterns thinking that they will get it right. Therapy is essential for such individuals to help them understand themselves, their choice of a partner and their communication patterns. In order to grow, we must address issues of closeness, attachment and intimacy and the problems we may have in those areas.
Experience & Qualifications
I am a Licensed Psychotherapist providing psychotherapy for 25 years. I have worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
I see individuals and couples and am qualified to work with people who experience all types of relationship problems.