Counseling for Children, Teens and Adults

LifeWorks AZ Counseling offers customized counseling programs for children, teens, and adults throughout Arizona.

Psychotherapist David Abrams' assists his clients in alleviating depression, anxiety, and phobias, creating healthy relationships (healthy communication), treating stress and difficult life challenges, coping with grief and loss, building self esteem and social skills, anger management, problem solving, modifying unhealthy behaviors, strengthening self-esteem, gaining insight and awareness to create ones desired change.

He focuses on a strengths based approach in counseling.  He believes that highlighting and tapping into all the gifts and strengths people have makes all the difference in creating the changes they desire in their lives. He also believes that it is vital to obtain balance physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually in order to create the desired change.

CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, FAMILIES

I love working with kids and parents. I offer a place for parents to turn when they need help and have questions. I am able to connect with kids, tots to teens, using humor and a flexible approach. Kids quickly feel safe and comfortable, enjoying their time in therapy, and parents feel encouraged. I engage children using play, and therapy techniques. Therapy strategies with adolescents often address issues of self-esteem, social and peer pressure, identity and self-worth, and emotional regulation and expression. In the therapy process, where healing occurs, families learn healthy and appropriate coping and communication skills and conflict resolution. I am passionate about teaching parenting skills so parents become more effective and more connected with their children.

ADULT AND COUPLES THERAPY

I have years experience helping clients to effectively alleviate depressive and anxious moods, and learn to cope with grief, loss, relationships, and difficult and painful life situations. I work daily with clients on the following issues:

• ANXIETY / PANIC / FEAR (needing skills to calm, soothe, take charge and empower)
• DEPRESSION (finding it more & more difficult enjoying life)
• ANGER (just under the surface, explosive if not managed)
• TRUST (not trusting others, not trusting self)
• RELATIONSHIPS (individuals and couples needing to improve, learn boundaries, self-care and healthy communication)
• NEGATIVE THOUGHTS (stuck in past or recent painful experience, Self-limiting, Self-destructive behaviors)
• MOTIVATION / CONCENTRATION (struggling to stay focused and motivated)
• CONFIDENCE / SELF-ESTEEM (overwhelming self-doubt causing mistakes, faltering, more doubt).