Merriel Mandell, Ph.D.
- 25 years of Experience
- United States
- Vancouver, Washington
Specialties: Addiction, Anger Management, Marital / Premarital, Depression, Dissociative Disorders, Dual Diagnosis, Education/Personal Development, Family Conflict, Infant Mental Health, Interpersonal Relationships, Life Transitions, Parenting, Stress, Trauma / PTSD
Specialties
Addiction, Anger Management, Marital / Premarital, Depression, Dissociative Disorders, Dual Diagnosis, Education/Personal Development, Family Conflict, Infant Mental Health, Interpersonal Relationships, Life Transitions, Parenting, Stress, Trauma / PTSD
Languages
English
Age Group Focus
Adolescents, Adults, Seniors
Treatment Approaches
Behavioral, Coaching, Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Crisis Intervention, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), Dialectical (DBT), EMDR, Home Study, Humanistic, Intervention, Long-Term, Mindfulness Based Approaches, Neuro-Linguistic, Parent Guidance, Prevention, Psychodynamic, Relational, Systemic, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Issues
Adoption, Anxiety, Asperger's, ADHD, Behavior Issues, Career Counseling, Grief, Learning Disabilities, Postpartum, Sensory Processing Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Women's Issues
State License
Washington
About Merriel Mandell
I have over 25 years experience in working with individuals, couples, families, and groups. I ask each client to set a behavioral goal at the beginning of treatment. This helps the client judge whether they are making progress in therapy. My goal is to have each client take away something useful from each session. I understand my role as a therapist is to help the client identify attitudes and behaviors that get in the way of achieving their goal and find new ways to move forward.
Sometimes clients describe a feeling that their wires are crossed, or their goal is to achieve inner peace or that they never feel like they are good enough. While these feelings don't lend themselves to identifying behavioral goals I am particularly good at working with clients to overcome them.