The OATS Program
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSS, PhD ABD
Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $110
- Couple Sessions $120
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by Cash, Check, Paypal
Insurance
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Clinical Social Work/Therapist: Linda A May
- In Practice for 43 Years
- Certificate from Harvard University training in mentalizing treatment with Peter Fonagy Mentalizing based therapy / 2019
- Degree/Diploma from Trained at the PhD level at Bryn mawr College in Attachment. ABD / 2004
- Attended Bryn Mawr GSSWSR , MSS, Graduated 1995
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Relationship Issues
- Career Counseling
- Addiction
Expertise
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Complex Trauma
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Mentalizing
- Mood Disorders
- Self Esteem
- Substance Use
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
Age
Participants
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Participants
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Emotionally Focused
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Interpersonal Process Group Psychotherapy
- Intervention
- Mentalizing
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Narrative
- Positive Psychology
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Growth In Recovery Process Group
Join one of four existing groups. Each group meets one night a week for 1.5 hours. During intake you clarify your goals and learn the few rules. Groups are confidential: small, stable, safe and stimulating. Group is a powerful agent for change, utilizing the trusting intimate relationships developed with each member. Members are bright, talented & capable individuals.Group promotes direct, open honest feedback among members; this priceless information helps resolve enduring problems with self-concept, self-regulation, important relationships. It promotes development and practice of new coping strategies. In group we explore strengths to protect vulnerabilities, defeat challenges, blocks.
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Group Meets
Location
OATS Outpatient Psychotherapy & Group Therapy
6 Radnor Way
Radnor, PA 19087
Personal Power & Effectiveness
A Men's group and a woman's group each focus on developing mental skills and the language to optimize desired outcomes in relationships; most importantly with yourself and in the areas most important to you. Various relationship skills, empirically validated, must get practiced to get learned. The group format designed to effectively master the disciplines of taking conscious control over attention, realistic goal, setting, keeping your own mind in mind, keeping other people's minds in mind, developing desired levels of influence and connection to get what you want at work, and at home. Weekly attendance, minimum 1 year.
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Group Meets
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OATS Office
6 Radnor Way
Radnor, PA 19087
Creating Recovery: Learning to Love Yourself Fully
Founded in 1981, OATS continuously offers interpersonal process group psychotherapy as the most effective method for creatively attaching to yourself and others. Knowledge is a social product. Group offers the most effective opportunity for creating knowledge of yourself and others. It is safe, confidential and offers novel skills- e.g.,'finite language' - with which to differentiate yourself from others, and others from one another: establish identity. Group members relationships are confined to group. Therefore you may be direct , open and honest when speaking of yourself and giving feedback to one another. Overarching goals include getting to know & love yourself fully.
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Group Meets
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Outpatient Addiction Treatment Services
Wayne, PA 19087
Location
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