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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. Utilizing consultation with Dr. Frisch can:

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  Establish your practice and keep it growing with consistency
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  Help you through challenging patient interfaces
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  Activate a patient through stasis and move treatment forward
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  Strengthen your skills and teach you precise and impactful interventions
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  Facilitate dynamic change in a faltering therapeutic process
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  Provide new direction and practical, insightful help

Dr. Frisch has expertise in troubleshooting, case management and redirection to stabilize, catalyze or clarify a case that feels stuck. Powerful results can occur quickly for both professionals and patients.

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 assist@orgonomictherapy.com or call 415-388-0622.

Starting or Revitalizing Your Private Practice

Expert Practice Building Coaching Series

Dr. Frisch provides new and experienced clinicians with practice consultation and coaching in a group setting, so colleagues can share challenges and learn from interactions with an expert. Her coaching series will be ongoing and is open to professional and students. Group size will be kept small so that each student can get individualized attention.

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  Standard tuition: $150
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  Class size limit: 12 students
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  Students wishing CE credit must pay an additional $10 certificate fee per class
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  CE's: for MFT's and LCSW's can receive 3 CE credits for this class