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What services do you offer at Nadzieja/ Hope?
We offer psychotherapy, supportive services such as executive function coaching and assessments.
What kind of problems do you treat in your practice?
We treat a variety of problems such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, problems at work or school, problems with relationships, adjustment to changes such as COVID, retirement, divorce as well as aging. We also treat chronic pain and coping with sudden medical illness, coping with illness of other family members. Additionally we treat caregiver burnout, behavioral and emotional disorders and anger issues. We offer support for sexually and emotionally abused individuals as well as support for victims of domestic violence.
What type of supportive services do you offer?
We offer executive functions coaching as well as variety of consultations and skills teaching such as parents training, caregiver consultations, family consultations, developing appropriate emotional support system.
What do you mean by executive function coaching? What is that?
By executive function skills we refer to processes that involve cognition, emotions and behavior. These include organization, planning, emotional regulation, time management and decision making to name a few.
What type of assessments do you offer?
We offer a variety of assessments and diagnostic procedures. Some of them are personality testing, cognitive testing such as assessment of intelligence as well as vocational assessment that leads to recommendation in which profession a particular individual should pursue a career. Moreover, we offer competency evaluations especially for the elderly as well as competency evaluations for decision making capacity, disability evaluations, as well as evaluations and support in cases of personal Injury or PTSD.
Can you give one example of competency evaluation for elderly?

Yes, this is a very common phenomena that our ability to learn efficiently new information declines with age. It is also not uncommon that elderly people struggle with dementia. Therefore, their memory and other cognitive functions as well as adaptive functions are extremely impaired . Let’s review the hypothetical scenario of a 70 year old Polish immigrant who has dementia and is required to take a naturalization exam. One of the requirements of the naturalization process is demonstrating knowledge of US history as well as ability to read and write in English. This person has dementia stage 3, she often does not remember where she lives, gets lost in the neighborhood and often needs a lot of support in terms of daily functioning. Through appropriate diagnostic evaluation the person might be eligible for exemption from naturalization examination.

We offer psychotherapy, supportive services such as executive function coaching, assessments.
We treat a variety of problems such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, problems at work or school, problems with relationships, adjustment to changes such as COVID, retirement, divorce as well as aging. We also treat chronic pain and coping with sudden medical illness, coping with illness of other family members. Additionally we treat caregiver burnout, behavioral and emotional disorders and anger issues. We offer support for sexually and emotionally abused individuals as well as support for victims of domestic violence.

We offer executive functions coaching as well as variety of consultations and skills teaching such as parents training, caregiver consultations, family consultations, developing appropriate emotional support system.

By executive function skills we refer to processes that involve cognition, emotions and behavior. These include organization, planning, emotional regulation, time management and decision making to name a few.

We offer a variety of assessments and diagnostic procedures. Some of them are personality testing, cognitive testing such as assessment of intelligence as well as vocational assessment that leads to recommendation in which profession a particular individual should pursue a career. Moreover, we offer competency evaluations especially for the elderly as well as competency evaluations for decision making capacity, disability evaluations, as well as evaluations and support in cases of personal Injury or PTSD.
Yes, this is a very common phenomena that our ability to learn efficiently new information declines with age. It is also not uncommon that elderly people struggle with dementia. Therefore, their memory and other cognitive functions as well as adaptive functions are extremely impaired . Let’s review the hypothetical scenario of a 70 year old Polish immigrant who has dementia and is required to take a naturalization exam. One of the requirements of the naturalization process is demonstrating knowledge of US history as well as ability to read and write in English. This person has dementia stage 3, she often does not remember where she lives, gets lost in the neighborhood and often needs a lot of support in terms of daily functioning. Through appropriate diagnostic evaluation the person might be eligible for exemption from naturalization examination.
Acceptence & Comittment Theraqpy - ACT
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a type of psychotherapy that helps you accept the difficulties that come with life. ACT is a form of mindfulness based therapy, theorizing that greater well-being can be attained by overcoming negative thoughts and feelings. Essentially, ACT looks at your character traits and behaviors to assist you in reducing avoidant coping styles. ACT also addresses your commitment to making changes, and what to do about it when you can’t stick to your goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT

Cognitive-behavioral therapy stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings. The therapist assists the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying his or her thinking. The therapist then helps the client modify those thoughts and the behaviors that flow from them. CBT is a structured collaboration between therapist and client and often calls for homework assignments. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of disorders, including depression and anxiety.

Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - TF-CBT

Trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) helps people who may be experiencing post-traumatic stress after a traumatic event to return to a healthy state.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is the treatment most closely associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Therapists practice DBT in both individual and group sessions. The therapy combines elements of CBT to help with regulating emotion through distress tolerance and mindfulness. The goal of Dialectical Behavior Therapy is to alleviate the intense emotional pain associated with BPD.

Eclectic
Many practitioners take an eclectic approach to therapy, drawing upon various aspects of cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic methods to create their own custom-made approach. Such therapists often work with their clients to create a treatment plan that encompasses different techniques to best address the client’s particular problems and to appeal to their sensibility.
Exposure Response Prevention - ERP
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is a form of psychotherapy intended to help those with obsessive thoughts refrain from responding with compulsions or rituals. ERP, which gradually exposes clients to stimuli that induce their maladaptive responses, belongs to the category of treatment known as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Forensic Therapy
Forensic therapy encompasses the psychological assessment, evaluation, intervention, and treatment of individuals who have committed violent crimes or are otherwise in the legal system. Victims and families may also be involved in forensic therapy. A forensic therapist may work in a therapeutic, supervisory, or consulting capacity, depending on the client’s situation and the requirements of the legal system.
Play Therapy
Generally for children ages 3 to 11, play therapy is a form of counseling that relies on play to help therapists communicate with children and understand their mental health. Because children develop cognitive skills before language skills, play is an effective way to understand a child. The therapist may observe a child playing with toys–such as playhouses and dolls–to understand the child’s behavior and identify issues.
Positive Psychology
Unlike traditional psychology that focuses more on the causes and symptoms of mental illnesses and emotional disturbances, positive psychology emphasizes traits, thinking patterns, behaviors, and experiences that are forward-thinking and can help improve the quality of a person’s day-to-day life. These may include optimism, spirituality, hopefulness, happiness, creativity, perseverance, justice, and the practice of free will. It is an exploration of one’s strengths, rather than one’s weaknesses. The goal of positive psychology is not to replace those traditional forms of therapy that center on negative experiences, but instead to expand and give more balance to the therapeutic process.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Culturally sensitive therapists provide therapy that is culturally sensitive. They understand that people from different backgrounds have different values, practices, and beliefs, and are sensitive to those differences when working with individuals and families in therapy.
Acceptence & Comittment Theraqpy - ACT
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a type of psychotherapy that helps you accept the difficulties that come with life. ACT is a form of mindfulness based therapy, theorizing that greater well-being can be attained by overcoming negative thoughts and feelings. Essentially, ACT looks at your character traits and behaviors to assist you in reducing avoidant coping styles. ACT also addresses your commitment to making changes, and what to do about it when you can’t stick to your goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT
Cognitive-behavioral therapy stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings. The therapist assists the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying his or her thinking. The therapist then helps the client modify those thoughts and the behaviors that flow from them. CBT is a structured collaboration between therapist and client and often calls for homework assignments. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of disorders, including depression and anxiety.
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - TF-CBT
Trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) helps people who may be experiencing post-traumatic stress after a traumatic event to return to a healthy state.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is the treatment most closely associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Therapists practice DBT in both individual and group sessions. The therapy combines elements of CBT to help with regulating emotion through distress tolerance and mindfulness. The goal of Dialectical Behavior Therapy is to alleviate the intense emotional pain associated with BPD.
Eclectic
Many practitioners take an eclectic approach to therapy, drawing upon various aspects of cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic methods to create their own custom-made approach. Such therapists often work with their clients to create a treatment plan that encompasses different techniques to best address the client’s particular problems and to appeal to their sensibility.
Exposure Response Prevention - ERP
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is a form of psychotherapy intended to help those with obsessive thoughts refrain from responding with compulsions or rituals. ERP, which gradually exposes clients to stimuli that induce their maladaptive responses, belongs to the category of treatment known as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Forensic Therapy
Forensic therapy encompasses the psychological assessment, evaluation, intervention, and treatment of individuals who have committed violent crimes or are otherwise in the legal system. Victims and families may also be involved in forensic therapy. A forensic therapist may work in a therapeutic, supervisory, or consulting capacity, depending on the client’s situation and the requirements of the legal system.
Play Therapy
Generally for children ages 3 to 11, play therapy is a form of counseling that relies on play to help therapists communicate with children and understand their mental health. Because children develop cognitive skills before language skills, play is an effective way to understand a child. The therapist may observe a child playing with toys–such as playhouses and dolls–to understand the child’s behavior and identify issues.
Positive Psychology
Unlike traditional psychology that focuses more on the causes and symptoms of mental illnesses and emotional disturbances, positive psychology emphasizes traits, thinking patterns, behaviors, and experiences that are forward-thinking and can help improve the quality of a person’s day-to-day life. These may include optimism, spirituality, hopefulness, happiness, creativity, perseverance, justice, and the practice of free will. It is an exploration of one’s strengths, rather than one’s weaknesses. The goal of positive psychology is not to replace those traditional forms of therapy that center on negative experiences, but instead to expand and give more balance to the therapeutic process.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Culturally sensitive therapists provide therapy that is culturally sensitive. They understand that people from different backgrounds have different values, practices, and beliefs, and are sensitive to those differences when working with individuals and families in therapy.
Licensing
NY License ID     024769
NJ License ID
Languages
English
Polish
Spanish
M.A. in European Literature & Early Childhood Education
University of Bialystok
– 4.0 GPA
– Dual Master Degree
M.S. in Education

Queens College, City University of New York
– Certified School Psychologist
– Bilingual Certification
– Teacher’s Assistant for Bilingual Assessment Course

Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Anger Management

Certified and accreddited by Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI)

Evergreen Certified Dementia Care Specialist

Certified and accreddited by Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI)

Dialectrical Behavior Therapy

Certified and accreddited by Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI)

Montreal Cognitive Assessment

Certified and accreddited by Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

Psychology Today
Vetted and Recognized by Psychology Today, the world’s largest psychology and mental health destination online.
Licensing
NY License ID 024769
NJ License ID
Languages
English
Polish
Spanish
M.A. in European Literature & Early Childhood Education
University of Bialystok
– 4.0 GPA
– Dual Master Degree
M.S. in Education

Queens College, City University of New York
– Certified School Psychologist
– Bilingual Certification
– Teacher’s Assistant for Bilingual Assessment Course

Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Anger Management

Certified and accreddited by Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI)

Evergreen Certified Dementia Care Specialist

Certified and accreddited by Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI)

Dialectrical Behavior Therapy

Certified and accreddited by Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI)

Montreal Cognitive Assessment

Certified and accreddited by Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

Psychology Today
Vetted and Recognized by Psychology Today, the world’s largest psychology and mental health destination online.
What services do you offer at Nadzieja/ Hope?
We offer psychotherapy, supportive services such as executive function coaching and assessments.
What kind of problems do you treat in your practice?
We treat a variety of problems such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, problems at work or school, problems with relationships, adjustment to changes such as COVID, retirement, divorce as well as aging. We also treat chronic pain and coping with sudden medical illness, coping with illness of other family members. Additionally we treat caregiver burnout, behavioral and emotional disorders and anger issues. We offer support for sexually and emotionally abused individuals as well as support for victims of domestic violence.
What type of supportive services do you offer?
We offer executive functions coaching as well as variety of consultations and skills teaching such as parents training, caregiver consultations, family consultations, developing appropriate emotional support system.
What do you mean by executive function coaching? What is that?
By executive function skills we refer to processes that involve cognition, emotions and behavior. These include organization, planning, emotional regulation, time management and decision making to name a few.
What type of assessments do you offer?
We offer a variety of assessments and diagnostic procedures. Some of them are personality testing, cognitive testing such as assessment of intelligence as well as vocational assessment that leads to recommendation in which profession a particular individual should pursue a career. Moreover, we offer competency evaluations especially for the elderly as well as competency evaluations for decision making capacity, disability evaluations, as well as evaluations and support in cases of personal Injury or PTSD.
Can you give one example of competency evaluation for elderly?

Yes, this is a very common phenomena that our ability to learn efficiently new information declines with age. It is also not uncommon that elderly people struggle with dementia. Therefore, their memory and other cognitive functions as well as adaptive functions are extremely impaired . Let’s review the hypothetical scenario of a 70 year old Polish immigrant who has dementia and is required to take a naturalization exam. One of the requirements of the naturalization process is demonstrating knowledge of US history as well as ability to read and write in English. This person has dementia stage 3, she often does not remember where she lives, gets lost in the neighborhood and often needs a lot of support in terms of daily functioning. Through appropriate diagnostic evaluation the person might be eligible for exemption from naturalization examination.

We offer psychotherapy, supportive services such as executive function coaching, assessments.
We treat a variety of problems such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, problems at work or school, problems with relationships, adjustment to changes such as COVID, retirement, divorce as well as aging. We also treat chronic pain and coping with sudden medical illness, coping with illness of other family members. Additionally we treat caregiver burnout, behavioral and emotional disorders and anger issues. We offer support for sexually and emotionally abused individuals as well as support for victims of domestic violence.

We offer executive functions coaching as well as variety of consultations and skills teaching such as parents training, caregiver consultations, family consultations, developing appropriate emotional support system.

By executive function skills we refer to processes that involve cognition, emotions and behavior. These include organization, planning, emotional regulation, time management and decision making to name a few.

We offer a variety of assessments and diagnostic procedures. Some of them are personality testing, cognitive testing such as assessment of intelligence as well as vocational assessment that leads to recommendation in which profession a particular individual should pursue a career. Moreover, we offer competency evaluations especially for the elderly as well as competency evaluations for decision making capacity, disability evaluations, as well as evaluations and support in cases of personal Injury or PTSD.
Yes, this is a very common phenomena that our ability to learn efficiently new information declines with age. It is also not uncommon that elderly people struggle with dementia. Therefore, their memory and other cognitive functions as well as adaptive functions are extremely impaired . Let’s review the hypothetical scenario of a 70 year old Polish immigrant who has dementia and is required to take a naturalization exam. One of the requirements of the naturalization process is demonstrating knowledge of US history as well as ability to read and write in English. This person has dementia stage 3, she often does not remember where she lives, gets lost in the neighborhood and often needs a lot of support in terms of daily functioning. Through appropriate diagnostic evaluation the person might be eligible for exemption from naturalization examination.