Services
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Dr. Jennie Singer offers both short-term and long-term individual therapy. She has a psychodynamic approach, and she is very interested in finding out how your life experiences, attachment to primary caregivers, trauma, psychic wounds, and important relationships affect how you function in your everyday life. By looking at your past, how you have coped and developed, and how you have formed relationships, we can figure out better ways to help you take care of yourself, feel calm and regulated, form safe, meaningful, and intimate connections with others, and feeling successful and that your life has meaning. Dr. Singer wants to help you figure out ways to cope with difficult transitions, make good decisions with the people in your life, enhance the depth and quality of your relationships, and and to find a life and career path that brings you satisfaction.
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Dr. Singer has experience working with couples who are going through difficult times in their relationship. She works with attachment issues and trauma, and how these issues can cause difficulty when these concerns are not understood. She also uses several different theoretical vantage points, and her work is informed by the Gottmans' method, as well as the work of Esther Perel and emotionally focused therapy. Couples therapy can be stressful, and Dr. Singer works hard to make both partners feel safe and supported during this hard work. Dr. Singer also provides help with difficult negotiations between partners who are having difficulty with sexual issues/compatibility as well as issues around monogamy/non-monogamy, and cheating.
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Dr. Singer works with parents who are struggling with their child, adolescent, or adult child. Dr. Singer is a specialist in positive parenting techniques, understanding and navigating psychological evaluations, IEPs and 504 processes, diagnosis and treatment of mental health, behavioral issues, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and learning disabilities. She can assist parents or divorced co-parents who need help communicating with each other, disciplining their child, or getting their child help with issues at school or in the home. Dr. Singer can also help parents understand how sensory overstimulation and responses to trauma affect a child's behavior and how to use techniques that can help ground both you and your child. She is also a specialist in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and she can recommend school placements, academic modifications, and other accommodations that can help your child at school or at home.
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Dr. Jennie Singer is an experienced forensic psychologist who has worked in federal prisons, and for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as a clinical psychologist as well as a clinical supervisor. She has worked as a researcher and correctional treatment program evaluator, and as a Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at Sacramento State University she has a deep knowledge of the literature in rehabilitation, risk assessment, correctional programs, substance abuse treatment and recovery, criminogenic needs, and how trauma and mental illness affect behavior. She works for defense attorneys who would like to have their client evaluated for the courts in order to produce an assessment report or testimony that can be presented to the court for help in sentence mitigation. Dr. Singer's reports include clinical and forensic risk information, along with information that generally helps to reduce sentences. Dr. Singer also works with personal injury attorneys and civil attorneys who are working to get clients settlements for pain and trauma, or to help get wrongfully terminated clients their jobs back. Dr. Singer is also a specialist in suicidality, inmate mental health, and prison processes and procedures.
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Mentoring is something that can assist children, adolescents and young adults who are in need of social skills advancement, independent living skills, friendship skills, helping increase emotional regulation, and navigating the community. The mentor can meet with clients over Zoom or either in their home or in the community for a one or two-hour session. Mentoring can help to build experiential skills that can easily transfer to settings at school or at home. Mentors are supervised by Dr. Jennie Singer.