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Challenging the Traditional Model of How and Where Therapists Work

Belief In Short-Term Counseling as Productive Approach to Conflict Resolution, Problem Solving, Realizing Personal Truths

NEW YORK, NY - June 22, 1999 (INB) -- Pioneering therapist Michele Lifland (LCSW) is challenging the traditional model of psychotherapy, with her company, Creative Mind Management, an on-site coaching and short-term counseling program created to meet the financial limitations and time restrictions of today.

Through private sessions on-site in a client's home or office, Lifland helps people identify obstacles, define and clarify conflict, develop objectives, construct proactive plans to reach their life potential, identify self-improvement programs best for them, and recognize their personal truths.

Lifland also leads group workshops around the country at which participants learn how to understand and face fears that hold them back from recognizing what they truly want, and how to clarify their objectives in order to determine strengths and capabilities and achieve personal and professional fulfillment.

According to Lifland, "By working with a trained clinician who doesn't focus on diagnosis, but instead brainstorms, interacts and guides clients towards a clear perspective, people can better identify, clarify, and evaluate solutions in their lives. This enables them to break through barriers in order to reach overall truth and happiness in their lives. I am challenging the model in which many of us have been trained, but in no way replacing, conflicting, or substituting psychotherapy and analysis. I believe -- and have seen --there is an important need for people to work with a professional on particular problems without committing to long term psychotherapy."

Lifland's extensive training is in the fields of social work, counseling, conflict resolution, eating disorders, and life-based management. She has degrees and certifications in counseling, social work, communications and conflict management from Columbia University, New York University, Boston University and Rutgers. Prior to launching CMM in 1998, she spearheaded two prominent eating disorder clinics, and privately counseled clients facing depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, anxiety, family dysfunction, marital conflict, abuse, and addiction.

She developed Creative Mind Management "in order to combine the philosophical and relational elements of psychotherapy with the more practical financial and time limitations of today's client." Her mission is to move towards solutions that can be found within life-based practice, and help people create strategies to reach their personal and professional objectives.