Areas of Treatment & Specialty: I have experience addressing many mental health issues including (but not limited to)
- ADHD in adults
- Anxiety & Depression
- Adoption
- Amputees
- Career & Role Transitions
- Co-dependency
- Coping with Cancer
- Coping with serious or chronic health challenges
- Family/relationship issues
- Grief and Loss
- Healer’s circle: peer consultation for clinicians group
- Infertility & Pregnancy Loss
- Interpersonal issues/communication
- Life role transitions such as motherhood, parenting, becoming a caregiver to your parents or family member, retirement
- Mental health and allied medical professionals and trainees, interns, post docs, residents (professional courtesy rate available)
- Older adults/seniors/geriatrics
- Relationship transitions, overcoming a break-up, loss or divorce
- Stress
- Trauma
- Work-life balance
- Young adults
- I have a special interest in incorporating spirituality, faith and mindfulness into psychotherapy.
- I also conduct screening for cognitive impairments, ADHD in adults, memory loss, and dementia, to establish a baseline from which to monitor changes and to identify if further neuropsychological services are warranted.
Specialty Treatment Modalities:
- Individual and Group therapy for adults ages 18-80+
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression, Grief and Loss (IPT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Analyses Systems of Psychotherapy (CBASP) for Chronic Depression
- Trauma focused Therapy (Seeking Safety)
- Crisis Oriented Psychotherapy (CORS)
- Interpersonal Neurobiology informed therapy
- Humanistic/Existential informed psychotherapy
- Culturally informed Family Systems therapy
- Spirituality/Faith Affirmative
- LGBTQIA2S+ affirmative
- Clinical Case consultation for Clinicians (individual & group)
- Cognitive screening
- Immigration Assessments
My Approach to Therapy
My goal is to ensure that you get the support you need to successfully navigate the challenges or difficulties you are facing and help you create a better, more satisfying life, I will guide and accompany you on your path. I can help you learn tools and skills to cope in healthy ways so that you can thrive; help you examine your communication patterns so that you can learn to communicate more effectively in ways that get results and improve your relationships. Together we can identify what’s getting in your way and develop strategies to overcome the barriers that hinder you from achieving your personal goals. I can also help you identify beneficial adjustments and keep you on track and accountable for taking the steps you can to build the life you desire.
Changes in our roles, relationships or health, life and career transitions, grief and loss, even pain and suffering, are all a natural part of our human condition. Yet, we have tremendous power to take the challenges life throws us as opportunities to adapt. In this way we create of our lives a beautiful tapestry that weaves together our challenges and our strengths. Therapy provides a safe space to help us explore how to grow through challenges, in the words of Victor Frankl, “…in that space between stimulus and response, is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Psychotherapy helps us gain understanding & perspective on the events that have shaped our lives and the stressors that inform our mood; therapy also helps us to explore our role in co-creating our life and gently but supportively challenges our assumptions about ourselves, our thoughts, & our feelings, while helping us to make beneficial changes, and come to terms with difficulties.
I look forward to collaborating with you to best meet your specific needs.
Warm Regards,
Kathleen McGrogan, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
CA license. PSY 16448
Call 424-218-6656 to schedule your free 15 minute consultation