Dr. Friedman works with children, ages 3 and older,
adolescents, and adults. She has a special interest in helping
children, adolescents, and adults adjust to divorce and other
experiences of loss. She helps clients process and negotiate to the
normal difficulties that occur with loss, as well as other
developmental changes that are difficult to adjust to, such as
beginning school, becoming a teenager, starting to date, beginning
young adulthood, etc. She strongly believes that, regardless of age,
each person must develop an understanding of their own identity in
order to manage the challenges of everyday life. To accomplish this
she conducts Individual, Family, and Couples Therapy.
Dr. Friedman has
extensive training in family systems therapy and child development
and believes that the family in which the client lives or grew up
greatly influences his or her psychological makeup. She borrows from
a variety of theoretical models of psychotherapy including
Psychodynamic and Cognitive/Behavioral Therapy to help clients
achieve their goals. “With all my clients,” she says, “I begin
therapy with an assessment of the client’s family system since our
family is the “blueprint” for our relationships. I provide a safe
and open environment to help clients understand themselves better
and change in ways that enhance their lives.”
Dr. Friedman
got her Doctoral training in Clinical Psychology at DePaul
University in Chicago, Illinois. She sees
clients at the
Marietta office.
