Expert Practice Consultation

For Mental Health Professionals: Psychologists, MFT’s, Psychiatrists, Nurses, Counselors, and Social Workers

Our profession is deeply satisfying, compelling and at times, extremely challenging. Dr. Frisch can help you set up, grow, and maintain a successful, thriving practice. Professionals who consult with Dr. Frisch can:

• Learn how to create a successful business, including marketing, networking, establishing your database, using social media, establishing a niche and adding creative vehicles of clinical practice that translate into an enhanced private practice.
• Build a firm and clear therapeutic frame that holds patients so that they can complete their therapy.
• Sustain a successful practice and keep it thriving.
• Receive help with challenging patient interfaces that lead to early terminations.
• Facilitate dynamic change in a faltering therapeutic process.
• Receive individualized mentoring for the clinician’s unique private practice needs

Dr. Frisch has expertise in the business of therapy and troubleshooting a non-thriving practice. She also assists with a model of case management that facilitates a stable analytic frame and results in a more solid practice. Powerful results can occur quickly for both professionals and patients.

Dr. Frisch offers weekly or monthly consultations with clinicians throughout the country using teleconferencing and Skype technologies.

Dr. Frisch’s offers Consultation in the following areas:

Establishing a Private Practice. Find your niche, develop effective marketing strategies, and build a good foundation of practice.

Stabilizing a Successful, On-going Full Practice. There is an art to maintaining a dynamic, on-going practice. Many clinicians have problems keeping patients committed and moving into deeper subjective layers. Let Dr. Frisch trouble-shoot your practice and help you to build a solid referral network in order to stay successful in a competitive market. One or two consultations may turn your practice around.

Establishing an Effective Therapeutic Relationship. Skillfully set up the therapeutic frame and develop clear documentation and patient forms. These and other steps will ensure that each patient will have a clear sense of what therapy entails. This can discourage early flights from therapy, lack of clarity regarding payment, and resistance regarding the necessity of treatment regularity.

Addressing Resistance. One of the main reasons therapy fails is that therapists are not trained to work effectively with patient resistance. Many good therapeutic relationships are lost because when negativity and important resistances emerge, the clinician avoids them and the patient leaves.

Managing Difficult Patients who Act-Out. Many patients have defensive structures and behavioral styles that are simply difficult to manage, and often act-out against the therapy and healthy choices. There are effective ways to help these patients relinquish these defenses and destructive behaviors.

Establishing and Sustaining Real Contact with the Patient in the Present. Much of therapy is done without real contact. The patient moves from story to story and the therapist listens, interjects and not much gets done. The therapist needs to be in clear contact in order to recognize the patient’s contactlessness. Improve your ability to be very present in the room. Each session can capture defenses and move the patient into greater self-awareness and depth.

Understanding Defenses and How to Work with Them. Defenses can be seen in how the patient walks, talks, looks at you, their style, their attitude, their physical form, their symptoms, etc. Learning how to work actively and astutely with defenses can be very powerful.

Finding Your Creative Edge. We need to continue to grow and change as therapists and to find ways to create within our profession. Dr. Frisch can bring out your freest edge so you feel more yourself within the clinical hour.

Working with Dreams. Patient dreams can provide powerful material for therapeutic progress. Dr. Frisch has extensive experience that can help when analyzing this liminal landscape.

Diagnosis Beyond DSM. Learning Character Typology helps the clinician to know how to work with each patient. With a correct character diagnosis, you know what to expect from your patient and which interventions are relevant or will not work. Dr. Frisch is an expert in character typology and can help you learn to correctly see character and determine appropriate treatment direction.

Managing Outer Adaptation with In-depth Work. Often in-depth analysts will focus more on deep, inner feelings and exploration while adaptive functioning is not directly addressed. Dr. Frisch encourages a shuttling back and forth between the inner depth and the exploration of adaptation in the ‘real world’. As the patient looks at details of their life, insight is gleaned.

Incorporating Somatic Interventions – Orgonomy. Dr. Frisch is an expert in Orgonomy, the application of the work of Wilhelm Reich. She trains professionals in treatments that can incorporate somatic interventions. These interventions can offer relief of long inhibited affect sometimes somatized and resulting in difficult symptoms: severe depression, chronic pain, generalized anxiety and other stress manifestations.

Creating a Successful Workshop. Dr. Frisch has extensive experience presenting weeklong workshops at Esalen® as well as public and professional trainings in other venues. She can help you create and deliver workshops, including elements such as curriculum planning, administration, and marketing.

For questions, to arrange for an appointment, or to request information on Dr. Frisch’s fees and policies, email OINC or call 415-388-0622.