Philosophy

Dr. Farmilant provides individual, family, and couples counseling from an Adlerian theoretical orientation. He believes human behavior is creative, purposeful, and generally motivated by a desire to have a secure place in society. People run into problems, he observes, when their methods of attaining such a place are inconsistent with the goal of cooperative community living. The process of therapy consists in part of identifying and modifying mistaken goals, beliefs, and self-defeating behaviors.

Dr. Farmilant practices Cognitive-Behavioral techniques to help clients modify their thinking, feeling, behavior, and ultimately how they experience the world. As the adage goes: If you think what you've always thought, you will feel what you've always felt, do what you've always done, and get what you've always gotten. Positive change in a person's life comes from interrupting existing think-feel-do-get patterns and creating new ones! Although cognitive cycles can be interrupted at any of these points, the most lasting change comes from modifying the way a person thinks.

Cognitive therapy techniques, including thought stopping, catch-notice-interrupt, creating thought records and reframing are simple, elegant tools that can help an individual modify their thinking and achieve the results they seek.