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Dr. Deb’s Practice
Founder of the Center for Family and Couple Solutions, Dr. Debra Castaldo, Couples & Family Therapist, PhD, uses a unique solution focused, brief approach to help clients build solutions quickly. She has special expertise in the areas of Love, Marriage, Sexuality, Divorce Prevention, Remarriage, Step Parenting, Child Management, Behavioral Issues, Family Conflict, Depression, Anxiety, Adoption, & Women’s Issues.
Dr. Deb is an official therapy service provider for Centerstone Military Services for Wounded Warriors and Backline Care.
In her therapeutic practice she brings a deep sensitivity to her work with women due to her own life experiences in long term marriage as a young adult, infertility and childlessness, separation and divorce, and dating at midlife. She is deeply passionate about her advocacy for women’s growth and development and couple relationships.
Dr. Castaldo holds a Ph.D. from NYU, an MS from Columbia University, and trained at Ackerman Institute for Family, Relational Life Institute, Paine Whitney Clinic New York Cornell and the Milton H. Erickson Foundation and The Brief Family Therapy Center of Milwaukee. She has also been a faculty member at Columbia, Rutgers, and Barry University. Currently she sits on the Advisory Board of West Chester University of Pennsylvania Department of Education and Social Work.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
SFBT is future-focused, goal-directed, and focuses on solutions, rather than on the problems that brought clients to seek therapy. Solution focused therapy is useful for: couple and marital issues, divorce prevention, family conflict, family life transitions, divorce adjustment, remarriage and step-parenting, depression, anxiety, stress, work and career difficulties, loss and bereavement, life cycle transitions, midlife and aging transitions, child behavioral and social skills issues, academic difficulties, and adoption adjustment.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is a short-term goal focused, evidence based therapeutic approach, incorporating positive psychology principles and practices which help promote change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, SFBT is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.
Described as a practical, goal-driven model, a hallmark of SFBT is its emphasis on clear, concise, realistic goals. SFBT has become quite popular, both for its usefulness and its brevity, and is currently one of the leading schools of psychotherapy in the world.
Interested in working with Dr. Deb? For all media, speaking or other opportunities, contact Manager, Beth Zinman: +1 917-200-2905 | beth@zinmaninteractive.com