Dr. Koppell's Practice
You can make your first visit go more smoothly by downloading and completing this registration packet and bringing it to your first visit:
If you intend to use health insurance...Be sure to call your insurance and determine whether prior authorization is needed. If so, please bring the authorization number to your first visit.
Other downloadable forms which some clients may use:
Authorization to Release Info
- Adults and Couples Therapy
I find it tremendously rewarding to work with individuals and couples who come to therapy seeking change in their lives.
My approach to individual therapy combines many different therapeutic tools, gathered over the course of my career. In recent years, much of my ongoing training has been in two types of therapeutic approaches, Somatic Experiencing, and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP).
The AEDP approach to therapy recognizes that progress with the issues many people bring to therapy comes with better access to feelings and understanding how to handle feelings. AEDPT is a very supportive therapeutic path to a more satisfying experience of self and relationship to others.
Somatic Experiencing offers some additional tools for the therapy process. Therapists have always paid attention to clients’ thoughts, feelings, and behavior, but more recent therapeutic and neurobiological advances have shown the value of helping clients track sensations in the body and work with these inner experiences as a way of resolving issues within the nervous system. These skills can be a major resource for how an individual feels and relates with others.
In working with couples, other specialized approaches may be used (Imago Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy). Couples often come to therapy because they have had the same conflicts over and over, or because events have led to a crisis and loss of faith in their partner. Couples therapy can transform such relationships, by clarifying misunderstood feelings and needs, teaching skills to keep intense emotional activation from undermining communication, and helping the couple see that the problem is not the other person, but a pattern of interacting that creates unhappiness and aloneness for both partners.
You'll find links to websites about these various types of therapeutic approaches
on the last page of our site, as well as links to articles/questionnaires that may be helpful to your individual or couples therapy.
Diane Kaufman, Ph.D. and Steven Koppell, Ph.D.
Austin therapists
3103 Bee Cave Road Ste.120
Austin, TX 78746
512-330-0409
