If you're looking for a dedicated and compassionate psychologist, therapist or counselor in the Lancaster Pennsylvania area, you've come to the right place. Based in Lancaster, PA, Kim Rosenberg offers individual counseling and therapy in a caring and supportive environment. As a Lancaster County Therapist, Kim Rosenberg brings 25 years of solid experience and a compassion and understanding that makes her clients feel safe.

Psychotherapy is Indicated When
	Inability to change a behavior or resolve a problem after repeated attempts
	Fears or phobias that limit activities or the enjoyment of life
	Negative behavior patterns such as picking abusive partners, or being abusive
	Self-destructive behavior patterns such as smoking, overeating, or other addictions
	Chronic low self esteem
	Changes in sleeping patterns, appetite, and/or ability to concentrate without a physical cause
	A sense of hopelessness
	Inability to enjoy life
	Difficulty making decisions
	Chronic loneliness
	Feelings of rage or being quick to anger
	Medically unexplained physical problems or psychosomatic illnesses
	Trouble adjusting to transition or a new situation: divorce, stepfamily, relocation
	Grief and trauma responses that are worsening over time

A Word About Techniques
While the techniques I use are powerful as you'll discover in the following descriptions, they are not the "essence" of my work. My philosophy of healing, my relationship with each client, and the principles that underlie my work are the real essence of the healing experience at Rosenberg Psychological.

I use each technique with the knowledge and permission of each client. Together we decide what is called for. If a technique feels as though it's a "misfit" to a client or myself, I don't use it - once we've fully considered and discussed it. In addition, I don't use every technique with each and every client.

Imago Therapy
As a Certified Imago Therapist I can also help you understand the dynamics of your past relationships and help you break the patterns that keep you unsatisfied, greatly increasing your capacity to sustain a long-term commited relationship

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven." - John Milton

This helps clients cope better by learning how they color their experience with their thoughts. It involves identifying dysfunctional thinking patterns and irrational beliefs and replacing them with healthier more functional patterns. In addition it can involve "behaving as if", by changing a behavior and then discovering the feelings and thoughts associated with the behavior change, thus uncovering the source of the original behavior.

Experiential Techniques

Emotional Release Work Uses physical movement and sound to express emotion and release energy from the body

Role playing and Empty Chair dialogues teach new ways to express oneself and learn new behaviors as well as help release old patterns and feelings.

I also do "Parts" work. Most of us know that we have conflicting parts within us. Parts work identifies the parts of us operating within an issue and works to bring those parts into greater harmony.

Hypnotherapy
Gets beyond the conscious, analytical mind to the subconscious where memories, feelings, habits, and beliefs drive our behavior. There we can do healing and change to create new ways of being in the world.

Breath Release Therapy
Uses conscious connected breathing to access innate, inner healing powers and release blocked energy. Results in increased personal power and ability to manifest personal vision.

Energy Work
I've long been interested in energy healing. Science can now verify what many of us have known and believed for some time: that there is an energy field around us that our body/mind affects and affects us. You've probably had the experience of walking into a room and feeling something off, or meeting someone and feeling particularly drawn to them but not knowing why. That's energy at work.

We can influence that energy and some of the techniques I use do just that, for a healing purpose. Breath Release Therapy is one of those techniques.

How To Suggest Someone See A Therapist
FIRST: Be gentle and nonjudgmental

If the person is sharing and talking about their difficulty it may be helpful to:

Let them know that you understand how hard what they are going through is, and that you care

Let them know you are not "dumping" them on a therapist, but rather want them to have the benefit of a therapist's expertise and objectivity.

It can be helpful to express the fact that the large majority of us can make use of a therapist's objective skill at some point in our lives. It's wise to use a professional just as it is wise to use a dentist, chiropractor, vehicle mechanic, or veterinarian.

If their behaviors are the reason you want to suggest therapy to them:

It may be helpful to simply complete the sentence, "I notice lately that you are ______ (more nervous, seem down, seem angry, have trouble getting their work done, etc)." Suggest that they share what is happening for them that may be causing those behaviors. Then you are in a good position to follow the suggestions above.