If you have been anxious or lonely, struggling with a difficult relationship or family-related issues, rest assured that these feelings and issues can be substantially reduced and eventually overcome. You may have heard this before, but it is still true that your best step towards relief is getting help from a competent, empathic and caring mental-health professional. 

My name is Frieda, and I have been successfully counseling people just like you for many years. I would love to work with you to unravel complex personal situations and relieve the daily burdens they impose on your familial, social and professional life. 

First and foremost, it is important for you to know that our sessions would provide a safe and productive environment. You will soon discover that the path to life-changing realizations is shorter when paved with an therapeutic light-touch and humor. We would persist on this path until disruptive negative feelings are transformed into profound undertstanding, optimism, and newfound positive attitudes towards people and life in general.

My goal is to help you recognize how negativity stands in your way to personal and/or professsional fulfillment. You will learn how these feeling originated and evolved to disrupt your everyday life. Most importantly, you will gain newfound confidence by learning how to finally let them go. Within our sessions, I will welcome and help you 'work through' your expressions of anger, fear, loneliness and worthlessness. Before long, you will be armed with newfound knowledge and inner strength that are the 'tools' needed to successfully navigate your future everyday challenges.

Wondering about my qualifications? I can proudly claim a successful track record with a diversity of clients and the unraveling of complex personal, couples and family problems. I am also regularly praised for helping resolve eating disorders and substance abuse issues. I trained and supervised mental health professionals, who readily acknowledge a marked improvement in their own lives as well as in the successful treatment of their own clients.

I invite you to use the  Contact Me  page to write a brief comment about yourself and the reason for reaching out to me, or send me an e-mail: fsdub0711@gmail.com. If your need is more urgent, please call me directly (914) 629-6290  for a quicker response. Be sure to leave a voice-mail message when I could not respond in the moment. Remember to include your contact information and best telephone number. I promise to respond quickly to help you schedule a free-of-charge initial consultation. Please remember to persist your effort to reach me, since the present state of cell-phone traffic can sometimes result in lost messages.

Have a nice day, and I hope to hear from you soon. 

Recent Client Comments:

"...Since I've been in treatment with Frieda, I have seen a few other therapists and psychiatrists, and I must say that she was definitely the best. Her intelligence, easy-going personality, amazing ability to connect and her lack of stuffiness helped me feel free to express myself without constraints. I always felt I gained something important after each of our sessions..."

"...Thinking of you today, and that I have so much to thank you for. I am grateful and deeply appreciate your skills and endless patience. Wishing you and yours a good healthy year to come, with unlimited blessings..." 

"...I think of you often, especially when I treat patients and supervise new clinicians, and I credit you for my professional acumen. I value our supervision sessions and friendship connection spanning close to twenty-five years - more than you know..."  

"...Thanks to our therapy session, I feel better able to face sensitive work situations, and much more ready to get into meaningful personal relationships. Thank you so much..."