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Chris Danzi
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R
Verified Verified
Syosset, NY 11773
I provide unconditional positive regard, genuineness, empathy, support, and strength perspective based care for my clients. I believe we all have the potential to meet our goals and to thrive personally and professionally. My treatment is aimed at helping my clients explore and confront life's issues, process related feelings, identify options and resources, and learn new skills to manage and cope with their lives. During this process, I provide my clients with needed support and hope to create change.
I provide unconditional positive regard, genuineness, empathy, support, and strength perspective based care for my clients. I believe we all have the potential to meet our goals and to thrive personally and professionally. My treatment is aimed at helping my clients explore and confront life's issues, process related feelings, identify options and resources, and learn new skills to manage and cope with their lives. During this process, I provide my clients with needed support and hope to create change.
(516) 321-4719 View (516) 321-4719
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Steven H Kaufman Ph.D.
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD
Verified Verified
Syosset, NY 11773
As a therapist focused on achieving real and lasting results, my goal is to help you uncover your potential and lead a life that is fulfilling, effective and happy. While we can't change difficult situations of the past, we can work together to better understand and resolve challenges in your life from the past and present. By applying complementary therapy approaches and techniques, we will together change negative behavior patterns and negative beliefs that are holding you back from experiencing a fulfilling and meaningful life, and replace them with and results-oriented skills and tools that enable you to achieve your goals.
As a therapist focused on achieving real and lasting results, my goal is to help you uncover your potential and lead a life that is fulfilling, effective and happy. While we can't change difficult situations of the past, we can work together to better understand and resolve challenges in your life from the past and present. By applying complementary therapy approaches and techniques, we will together change negative behavior patterns and negative beliefs that are holding you back from experiencing a fulfilling and meaningful life, and replace them with and results-oriented skills and tools that enable you to achieve your goals.
(631) 904-7207 View (631) 904-7207
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Better Life Associates
PhD
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Syosset, NY 11773
Hi, I'm Dr. Allegra Borghese. I'm passionate about helping people connect to their innate resources for healing and making meaning. Through a warm and committed therapeutic alliance, I foster awareness and growth in children, adolescents, and adults to overcome life's challenges. In addition to my doctorate from Fordham University, my training includes work in psychiatric hospitals, VA hospitals, addiction and eating disorder facilities, college counseling centers, and communities clinics.
Hi, I'm Dr. Allegra Borghese. I'm passionate about helping people connect to their innate resources for healing and making meaning. Through a warm and committed therapeutic alliance, I foster awareness and growth in children, adolescents, and adults to overcome life's challenges. In addition to my doctorate from Fordham University, my training includes work in psychiatric hospitals, VA hospitals, addiction and eating disorder facilities, college counseling centers, and communities clinics.
(516) 309-4863 View (516) 309-4863

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Narcissistic Personality (NPD) Therapists

What type of therapy is best for narcissistic personality disorder?

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is best treated with talk therapy, which could involve cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, schema therapy, gestalt therapy, or similar approaches. A therapist will help a patient uncover the feelings that may drive their behavior and discover how to engage with themselves and those around them with greater empathy and understanding, fewer demands, and less defensiveness, with the goal of developing a more authentic sense of self that enables healthier relationships.

How do therapists treat NPD?

By developing a strong therapeutic relationship, and continually focusing patients on relationships, community, and connection, a therapist, through talk therapy, may be able to help someone with NPD change. In sessions, a therapist will help an individual achieve relief from their current stressors, including the treatment of co-occurring conditions such as anxiety or depression. A therapist may also help an individual to recognize unhealthy coping mechanisms, learn new ways of interacting with others, and eventually become able to feel and display empathy.

Can a narcissist be cured with therapy?

Therapy can be effective. After a serious setback or great loss, someone with NPD may be forced to recognize that they are not immune to life’s challenges. That can spur feelings of melancholy and depression that lead them to seek professional help. Once an individual decides to seek help, they have already taken a step that the majority of those with NPD never will. Still, people with NPD often quit therapy as they naturally resist feeling vulnerable, being challenged, or admitting to flaws.

How can you get narcissistic personality disorder treatment for someone?

It is notoriously difficult to convince someone with NPD to seek help. With their feelings of superiority, they may be unlikely to recognize or acknowledge that they have a problem, or that their problem is narcissism. Sometimes, they are aware that they are arrogant and that others resent them but they don’t see it as a problem because they are convinced of their superiority. People with NPD have trouble maintaining relationships, but family members and others who do feel close to them, and whose presence they value, may be able to encourage them to seek therapy.