Pine, Pamela PhD

How I work
I strive to not make assumptions, but to listen to you with an open mind, to respect you and your feelings, to be sensitive yet objective and flexible, honest, and direct. My challenge is to craft a treatment specifically for you and your unique needs (not the other way around) and to keep you clearly in my focus.

My experience, training and approach
I’ve been practicing as a psychotherapist over eighteen years. I’m trained and extensively experienced both in shorter and longer term psychotherapy – Cognitive/Behavioral and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, respectively. Shorter term work identifies problems, consequences and solutions. Longer term work is a journey into understanding the nature and origin of repetitive destructive patterns, consequences, healing, repairing damage, and developing new constructive thought and behavior patterns.

Areas of special experience
I work with adults and with adolescents. I have done and continue to do extensive work with couples. My clientele range widely in their origins and backgrounds: ethnicity and race, religious, sexual orientation, gender, age, occupations and lifestyles. 

I have many years of successfully treating people with depression, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders and anxiety disorders, including panic attacks and phobias.

I work comfortably and empathetically with people in crisis and crisis situations who have suffered from trauma—physical, mental and emotional. This includes those who suffer current or post-traumatic stress and includes those who have experienced physical, emotional or sexual abuse and who may be victims of domestic violence. I am also comfortable and experienced working with people with substance abuse and addiction. I do well with people who have realized they have serious destructive behavioral patterns they don’t understand how to change or fix.