Dr. Leon C. Intrater & associates
Psychosocial services, education/training & consultation
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Dr. Leon C. Intrater and Associates
Psychosocial Services for youth and adults
Based out of the Chicagoland/Suburban and Midwest areas,
providing services Nationwide
Tel: (847) 945-9505/(847) 446-5526  Fax: (847) 945-9424
email:
drleoni@aol.com

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Internet Dependence Counseling

  • Finding alternatives to staying on the Internet for hours, and moving forward with life, social interactions, and true/meaningful intimacy
  • Setting limits to time spent on the Internet and being able to productively and enthusiastically "stick" to them
  • Working with adolescents and adults whose time and activities on the Internet, (hours of chatting, game-playing and/or "cybersex") have resulted in:
    • serious and potential neurological and psychological damage due to sleep deprivation
    • task/work and responsibility avoidance
    • education/homework avoidance
    • dysfunctional social/personal relationships
    • unhealthy preoccupation with sexuality and/or other unhealthy deviant practices

Couple & Marriage Counseling

  • Professional counseling to help revitalized troubled relationships and marriages including relationships which involve significant resistance by one or both parties
  • Find the love, excitement and intimacy you once had....only better...
  • Help with finding ways to building stronger marriages
  • Develop a meaningful long-term relationship without the "regular" cycle of letdowns, failures and monthly or yearly "I can't take it anymores" or "This is it, I've had its"...

Family Counseling (Including Families In Crisis):

  • Professional assistance to dysfunctional and "broken" families
  • Effective, fun and unique ways to understand, communicate and appreciate parents, children and adolescents within the family throughout the developmental family life steps
  • Dealing with factors which are involved in family decay, including alcohol and drug abuse, family violence and uncontrolled anger

Divorce Counseling and Mediation:

  • Therapy for divorced parents
  • "Now, what do I do?"
  • Planning for your (and your children's) future

Parental Alienation Counseling:

  • Working with children/adolescents who suddenly became aggressively hostile
    toward a (usually non custodial) parent with whom the children/adolescents
    had good relationships of long standing
  • How to work towards reunification of children with the alienated parent
  • How to work with the legal system toward requirements that children/family
    are ordered to participate in counseling with the main goals being reunification of children with parent(s)

Co-parenting Counseling and Mediation:

  • Working with the "impossible" other parent
  • Pre and post-divorce mediation
  • Enforcement of co-parenting agreements without continually returning to court

Helping Blended Families to Work Together:

  • Our children don't have to "fight" over us for attention
  • Working on blended family "sibling" rivalry
  • Working with children's hostility and negative behaviors in blended family
    situations

Dealing With Abuse and Neglect:

  • Surviving the trauma of physical, sexual and emotional abuse
  • Family systems approach with adolescent sex offenders and their victims
  • Working with false allegations of abuse and neglect

Child Custody Test Preparation:

  • Preparation for making sure that your best parental strengths are considered in a mental health evaluation without appearing to be "Narcissistic" and/or "conceited"
  • How to communicate the parent - child "foundation", and other strengths which have been built between you and your children during their development
  • How to bring forth complaints/concerns about the other parent without being negative and adversarial

Stress and Pain Management, Relaxation Training, and Biofeedback:

  • Learn techniques to use for anxiety, panic, and dysfunctional fears due to psychosocial stresssors such as too many things to do, health of family members, concerns about weight and financial insecurities
  • Learn to alleviate stress-related migraine and other headaches, facial, neck back and other muscle tension using biofeedback, progressive relaxation, autonomic techniques and creative altered states of consciousness pain management
  • Relaxation therapy which promotes reduction in stress-related tension, insomnia, compulsive overeating, hyper-shyness, sexual problems and depression

Anger/Aggression Management Training and Counseling:

  • Groups and individual counseling for anger management as required for court, work, family and other purposes
  • Changing behavior from unproductive, destructive rage and physical violence to productive and fulfilling emotionally driven behavior
  • Using anger as a valuable resource including a program for becoming assertive in socially acceptable ways

Motivational, Educational and Special Learning Problems and Assistance:

  • Effective techniques in working with motivational problems of youth and adults
  • Working with youth and young adults who have motivational problems in fearing success and/or failure related to school/college
  • Working with school administration and faculty on ensuring that special needs of students are met

Grief, Loss and Separation Groups and Individual Counseling:

  • Learning how to accept the loss of loved ones (including family, friends, pets and other significant others in our lives)
  • Becoming aware of emotionally incomplete losses, sharing uncommunicated feelings and saying good-bye with a caring and meaningful smile
  • The next step

Organizational and Executive Training/Learning & Consulting Services:

  • Planning for, finding and effectively using motivation to enjoy jobs and careers
  • Errors to avoid in effective and successful work with employers and employees while learning how to handle "organizational politics"
  • Using effective methods of adult learning in meeting organizational and individuals' goals (including the individual's sense of completion and contribution to the organization)
  • Effective strategies to enhance team "spirit", team work and group participation in achieving main organizational goals and departmental task completion
  • Reinforcing useful originality and creativity at the work place while increasing revenue and reducing costs and time spent

Professional Staff Available For Trainings, Presentations, In-Services and Speaking Engagements:

  • Experts who not only practice in the field on a daily basis but are also accomplished and effective, helpful public speakers
  • Trainers/speakers who have experience in customizing presentations for a particular population of attendees
  • Topics include Active Parenting, Grief and Loss, Stress Management, Working With the Chronic Runaway Child, Becoming Organized, and Time Management

 

 

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contact us Home Services
About Intrater & Associates

Based out of the Chicagoland/Suburban and Midwest areas, providing services Nationwide
Tel: (847) 945-9505/(847) 446-5526  Fax: (847) 945-9424  email:
drleoni@aol.com