About

My name is Krystyna Ksiazek. I live in Massachusetts. I am a Licensed Mental Health Clinician. I have been practicing psychotherapy for 29 years and never got sick of it. Seeing my clients succeeding, whether in therapy, adds the meaning to my work. My area of interest is Trauma and Complex-PTSD, Anxiety Spectrum Disorders such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Agoraphobia, phobias, Eating disorders, Depression, and Grief. Also, I have experience in the treatment of anger management problems, self-harm behaviors, and dissociative/split personality disorders. I like working with Adolescents, Young Adults, Adults, the Elderly, men, and women. I like to reach out beyond the traditional scope of therapeutic interventions, to alternative medicine based on homeostatic model of health. I consider helping clients to become empowered to face new challenges, optimism, and self-confidence as an ultimate goal of the therapy. Despite of the clients becoming sometimes deeply emotionally engaged in therapy, I like to create atmosphere that I am there for them, that I understand and support them. That I do not mind spending more time with them. Also, under exceptional circumstances, I allowed client to contact me on the phone between the session, to assist them in coping with increase in the intensity of the symptoms, guide them when they struggle with using a newly acquired therapeutic intervention. I came to the USA from Poland in the year of 1981. I had to start ""from the bottom"". I have been through many of ups and downs, painful personal loses; my mother, friend, boyfriend, but I never gave up. My resilience, optimism and none-conformist outlook on the life, did not allow me to accept the failure. Contrary, it motivated me to try harder, because I believed that ""I can"". Perhaps I was gaolable, but , it worked.