Florida Telehealth Psychologist offering Online Counseling
Robert Hamm PhD.
With 30 years of experience as a resident and clinician in private practice in Connecticut, I offer professional psychology services focused on psychotherapy customized to suit the needs and concerns of individuals, couples, and families. My approach is collaborative, aiming to attain insight and understanding to overcome obstacles that hinder patients from achieving their goals, leading to a happier and more fulfilling life and greater ability to independently solve problems. Mental and spiritual growth is essential in enhancing relationships, conquering addictions, and transcending mood disorders, anxiety, and depression. My objective is to work with clients to reconstruct and restructure their lives to realize their dreams. I am now licensed to provide online counseling telehealth sessions to residents of Florida:
With 30 years of experience as a resident and clinician in private practice in Connecticut, I offer professional psychology services focused on psychotherapy customized to suit the needs and concerns of individuals, couples, and families. My approach is collaborative, aiming to attain insight and understanding to overcome obstacles that hinder patients from achieving their goals, leading to a happier and more fulfilling life and greater ability to independently solve problems. Mental and spiritual growth is essential in enhancing relationships, conquering addictions, and transcending mood disorders, anxiety, and depression. My objective is to work with clients to reconstruct and restructure their lives to realize their dreams. I am now licensed to provide online counseling telehealth sessions to residents of Florida.
Anxiety Disorders:
Anxiety disorders involve a dysfunctional relationship with the future, where individuals feel unprepared to cope with what they fear may happen. To treat this issue, I work with patients to identify the specific nature of their fear, including situations where the cause of anxiety is unclear, such as with panic disorder or generalized anxiety. To address this, I may use various intervention strategies, such as relaxation training and visualization, cognitive therapy, exposure and desensitization for trauma or phobias, social skills training for social anxiety, and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder. By tailoring treatment to the specific needs of each patient, my approach to anxiety disorders aims to help individuals gain a better understanding of their fears, learn coping strategies, and gradually overcome their anxiety. I believe in creating a safe and supportive environment for my clients, where they can work collaboratively with me towards achieving their treatment goals.
Mood Disorders:
Mood disorders, like depression, are sets of symptoms that can have various sources, including past experiences and future fears. Dr. Hamm emphasizes the importance of identifying the root cause of these symptoms to effectively treat them, just as with anxiety disorders. Depression can stem from many causes, such as loss of relationships, abilities, or options, stresses in life, poor health, chronic illness, or loneliness and isolation. In working with patients, Dr. Hamm helps them find solutions to their concerns by addressing the underlying cause of their depression. He focuses on helping patients develop healthy coping mechanisms and reinterpreting their problems in a way that empowers them and instills a sense of hope.
Low Self-Esteem:
Low self-esteem can hinder our ability to take necessary risks for success, leading to unrealistic self-expectations and negative effects on mood and relationships. I address self-esteem issues by exploring how our past experiences and interpretations have negatively impacted our self-perception. Through cognitive therapy and mindfulness training, I help patients reinterpret these events and rebuild self-empowerment and compassion towards themselves and others. Additionally, I assist patients in developing a balanced, healthy lifestyle and creating goal-oriented plans through behavioral interventions.
Relationship Issues:
At my practice, I work with individuals, couples, and families to address a range of relationship issues. My approach involves helping clients to identify and resolve conflicts and dysfunctional patterns, improve communication skills, and clarify goals and direction. In particular, I assist clients in overcoming the trauma of infidelity, treating sexual inhibitions and dysfunctions, and enhancing sexual relationships. I recognize that many relationship issues stem from childhood attachment issues such as fear of abandonment or engulfment and psychological trauma resulting from exploitation, abuse, loss, and dysfunctional family dynamics. Thus, I help clients to explore these underlying issues in order to promote healing and greater understanding of themselves and their partners. Through a combination of therapy techniques, including cognitive therapy and behavioral interventions, I strive to help clients achieve more fulfilling and satisfying relationships.
Personal and Spiritual Growth Issues:
Spirituality has various meanings to different people, and it can be related to religious beliefs or not. To me, it is about our connection with life, existence, relationships with others, the Earth and its inhabitants, our past, heritage, future, and even immortality. Finding meaning and purpose in life brings spiritual connection, while disconnection can lead to cynicism and despair. As we age, we tend to reflect on our life's journey and seek a connection with something greater than ourselves. I help patients who aspire to achieve a greater sense of purpose and meaning in life and overcome long-standing patterns of living and personality issues that hinder these efforts. This involves a process of inner exploration, gaining insights, and fostering creative self-development. My focus is on supporting personal and spiritual growth through individual counseling.
Addictions:
Addictions can be an unhealthy way to cope with life's difficulties, and can harm one's health, life, and relationships. In my view, addictions are often a result of dysfunctional relationships with oneself and others. While my expertise lies primarily in treating sexual addictions, I also work with chemical addictions that stem from other mental disorders, like depression or anxiety. My approach to treating addiction involves carefully examining the root causes, such as the quality of one's relationships, and using cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify triggers and develop healthy coping strategies. I also encourage patients to seek additional support from community-based programs like 12-step groups.
Anger Management:
In modern society, anger is often misunderstood and not channeled appropriately, leading some individuals to deny its existence or potential benefits in their lives. When working with clients on anger management, my approach involves identifying triggers and developing healthy coping mechanisms, such as cognitive restructuring, stress reduction techniques, and improving communication skills.
Professional Consultation:
In some cases, upon a patient's approval, I may consult with their physician or previous behavioral health provider, or recommend a psychiatric evaluation to review medication. I also maintain professional relationships with psychiatrists in my community whom I can refer patients to if they wish. It's important to note that medication is not a cure-all solution and should be considered as one piece of a larger puzzle. I always respect the patient's wishes and thoughts when making decisions about these matters.
Book an online counseling session now. You may also contact me either through my confidential voicemail at (860) 236-2131 or by email at [email protected].
Anxiety Disorders:
Anxiety disorders involve a dysfunctional relationship with the future, where individuals feel unprepared to cope with what they fear may happen. To treat this issue, I work with patients to identify the specific nature of their fear, including situations where the cause of anxiety is unclear, such as with panic disorder or generalized anxiety. To address this, I may use various intervention strategies, such as relaxation training and visualization, cognitive therapy, exposure and desensitization for trauma or phobias, social skills training for social anxiety, and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder. By tailoring treatment to the specific needs of each patient, my approach to anxiety disorders aims to help individuals gain a better understanding of their fears, learn coping strategies, and gradually overcome their anxiety. I believe in creating a safe and supportive environment for my clients, where they can work collaboratively with me towards achieving their treatment goals.
Mood Disorders:
Mood disorders, like depression, are sets of symptoms that can have various sources, including past experiences and future fears. Dr. Hamm emphasizes the importance of identifying the root cause of these symptoms to effectively treat them, just as with anxiety disorders. Depression can stem from many causes, such as loss of relationships, abilities, or options, stresses in life, poor health, chronic illness, or loneliness and isolation. In working with patients, Dr. Hamm helps them find solutions to their concerns by addressing the underlying cause of their depression. He focuses on helping patients develop healthy coping mechanisms and reinterpreting their problems in a way that empowers them and instills a sense of hope.
Low Self-Esteem:
Low self-esteem can hinder our ability to take necessary risks for success, leading to unrealistic self-expectations and negative effects on mood and relationships. I address self-esteem issues by exploring how our past experiences and interpretations have negatively impacted our self-perception. Through cognitive therapy and mindfulness training, I help patients reinterpret these events and rebuild self-empowerment and compassion towards themselves and others. Additionally, I assist patients in developing a balanced, healthy lifestyle and creating goal-oriented plans through behavioral interventions.
Relationship Issues:
At my practice, I work with individuals, couples, and families to address a range of relationship issues. My approach involves helping clients to identify and resolve conflicts and dysfunctional patterns, improve communication skills, and clarify goals and direction. In particular, I assist clients in overcoming the trauma of infidelity, treating sexual inhibitions and dysfunctions, and enhancing sexual relationships. I recognize that many relationship issues stem from childhood attachment issues such as fear of abandonment or engulfment and psychological trauma resulting from exploitation, abuse, loss, and dysfunctional family dynamics. Thus, I help clients to explore these underlying issues in order to promote healing and greater understanding of themselves and their partners. Through a combination of therapy techniques, including cognitive therapy and behavioral interventions, I strive to help clients achieve more fulfilling and satisfying relationships.
Personal and Spiritual Growth Issues:
Spirituality has various meanings to different people, and it can be related to religious beliefs or not. To me, it is about our connection with life, existence, relationships with others, the Earth and its inhabitants, our past, heritage, future, and even immortality. Finding meaning and purpose in life brings spiritual connection, while disconnection can lead to cynicism and despair. As we age, we tend to reflect on our life's journey and seek a connection with something greater than ourselves. I help patients who aspire to achieve a greater sense of purpose and meaning in life and overcome long-standing patterns of living and personality issues that hinder these efforts. This involves a process of inner exploration, gaining insights, and fostering creative self-development. My focus is on supporting personal and spiritual growth through individual counseling.
Addictions:
Addictions can be an unhealthy way to cope with life's difficulties, and can harm one's health, life, and relationships. In my view, addictions are often a result of dysfunctional relationships with oneself and others. While my expertise lies primarily in treating sexual addictions, I also work with chemical addictions that stem from other mental disorders, like depression or anxiety. My approach to treating addiction involves carefully examining the root causes, such as the quality of one's relationships, and using cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify triggers and develop healthy coping strategies. I also encourage patients to seek additional support from community-based programs like 12-step groups.
Anger Management:
In modern society, anger is often misunderstood and not channeled appropriately, leading some individuals to deny its existence or potential benefits in their lives. When working with clients on anger management, my approach involves identifying triggers and developing healthy coping mechanisms, such as cognitive restructuring, stress reduction techniques, and improving communication skills.
Professional Consultation:
In some cases, upon a patient's approval, I may consult with their physician or previous behavioral health provider, or recommend a psychiatric evaluation to review medication. I also maintain professional relationships with psychiatrists in my community whom I can refer patients to if they wish. It's important to note that medication is not a cure-all solution and should be considered as one piece of a larger puzzle. I always respect the patient's wishes and thoughts when making decisions about these matters.
Book an online counseling session now. You may also contact me either through my confidential voicemail at (860) 236-2131 or by email at [email protected].