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Feeling Stuck?

Learn to Break Free of Moments of Reactivity, Complacency, and Feeling Bogged Down.

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ACE Your Life

My latest book, launching this fall helps anyone to unleash their best self and live the life they want!

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Circumventing Emotional Avoidance

Avoiding uncomfortable emotions is a human phenomenon—it prevents us from acting from our values, reaching our goals, and living the life we want. In this insightful talk, anxiety expert Michelle Maidenberg unpacks what causes emotional avoidance and shows us what we need to do in order to effectively overcome it to facilitate conscious awareness for overall well-being.

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Free Your Child From Overeating

Overeating is an overwhelming issue for many kids and teens today. As a therapist and health advocate, Dr. Michelle P. Maidenberg knows that it is a complex issue that requires both the consideration of “mind” and “body.” The key and missing link which isn’t adequately considered and addressed is the psychological and emotional hurdles that get in the way of facilitating effective lifelong change.

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Michelle P. Maidenberg, Ph.D., MPH, LCSW-R

Dr Maidenberg maintains a private practice in Harrison, NY where she specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Structural Family Therapy, Mindfulness, and Polyvagal Theory.

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Individual Therapy

Through evidence-based practices, I empower individuals (children, adolescents, teens, and adults), couples and families to gain self-awareness, identify personal values, cultivate self-acceptance, and take effective action to build self-belief, self-compassion, and lifelong healthful behavior change.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

I use a set of standardized protocols using bilateral stimulation (i.e., eye movements, audio, buzzers, etc.) to help relieve many types of psychological stress and/or trauma.
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Mindfulness

Utilizing varied mindfulness practices, I assist in facilitating greater self and present moment awareness, equanimity, and improved attention, concentration and mental clarity for improved health and well-being.
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Polyvagal Theory

I provide guidance for working directly on the autonomic activation of the nervous system to help build safety, connection, and resilience to enhance personal growth and improve interpersonal relationships.
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Thoughts of a Therapist

Our Kids Are Not Okay: The Frightening Truth About Suicidality and Fentanyl Poisoning

Our kids are not even close to being okay. I’m astonished at how many patients I’m currently treating that have been directly or indirectly impacted by suicide or Fentanyl poisoning. Recently, a patient’s high school senior experimented with an opioid and never woke...

18 Tips to Change Your Habits for Good: Create the Life You’re Proud of.

We form positive and negative habits throughout our lives. And once a habit is formed, it’s hard to break free of it. It’s as if our brain stops fully participating in decision making and relies on our automatic routines. Our brains form neural pathways that get...

10 Steps to Making This the Best Year Yet: Always Notice What You’ve Learned

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics, Americans born in 2021 can expect to live for just 76.1 years, the lowest life expectancy since 1996. This is the biggest two-year decline—2.7 years in total—in...

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