Dr. Richard S Stern, PHD
6833 Wayne Avenue Mount Airy Counseling Center, Philadelphia, PA 19119
Building cooperation and openness in place of defiance and lying
Cultivating self-control in place of anger and tantrums
Fostering contentment and self-confidence in place of sadness and worry
Developing genuine closeness in place of clinging, irritability, or withdrawal
Promoting understanding and teamwork instead of criticism and mistrust
Richard S. Stern, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience serving children, adolescents, young adults, and families. Dr. Stern has an extraordinary knack for developing a therapeutic bond and fostering change with even the most resistant, angry, or withdrawn individuals. Using clinically proven family and individual therapy modalities, he treats a wide variety of child, young adult, and family problems, including depression, anxiety, aggression, and defiance.
Dr. Stern specializes in addressing core relational issues of protection, loyalty, authority, and forgiveness to help families heal from generational wounds and allow children to develop appropriate individuation using the secure base of a trusting parent-child relationship. He has extensive experience working with families from an exceptionally wide array of ethnic and class backgrounds.
Dr. Stern specializes in attachment-based and emotion-focused work. He uses a variety of family therapy, cognitive behavioral, and psychodynamic approaches, developed during his clinical training at the Child Guidance Center of the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Counseling and Psychological Services, the Coatesville Veterans Administration Medical Center, North East Treatment Centers, and Beth Israel Hospital (New York City).
After graduating from Tufts University magna cum laude with a bachelors degree in Philosophy, he worked extensively in early childhood education in the Boston area. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the New School for Social Research in NYC.
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