My Approach
My goal is to help you explore the negative beliefs that are keeping you stuck. I am trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and work from a strength based perspective. I employ these techniques to help my clients explore and challenge their thoughts and feelings. To this end, I sometimes assign homework to help you apply what we have discussed in our sessions directly to your every day life. My clients who follow through with this homework see changes quickly and develop a practical set of tools to deal with problems that may arise in the future.
Negative thoughts are often at the root of issues such as depression and anxiety. I help my clients to examine and challenge their way of thinking. It is all too easy to fall into cyclical patterns of negativity. I specialize in helping my clients discover and break these patterns. It is not about seeing the positive, it is about seeing the neutral and working from there to find a new perspective. Often our negative thoughts become so ingrained that we do not realize we are perpetuating them. My job is to work with you to confront these thoughts and discover their root cause. Together, over time, we will replace this harmful thinking with objective thinking and clear away excessive negativity from your mind.
“When I first met Marnie Zigelman, I had been recently diagnosed with mental illness which had plagued me for the better part of 20 years, most of my life. I was hurting deeply and my pain could no longer be controlled. I was losing friends and family members to my violent rages and my unpredictable mood swings. Working with Marnie taught me how to recognize that my feelings were valid but that they were feelings, not facts. She taught me how to recognize the ways in which I gave my feelings more power than they quite deserved and how to reinterpret my feelings to make smarter, healthier, and better choices for myself. Marnie’s humor, no-nonsense attitude, and ability to meet me where I’m at helped me trust her immediately and her wisdom inspired me to make great and important changes in my life. Marnie Zigelman’s unique sensibilities and her poignant insights into my experiences have helped me immensely and have changed me for the better. I am forever grateful for her and I highly recommend her services as an effective means to bring you back to yourself.”