Ronald C. Naso, Ph.D. Stamford, CT Psychotherapy offers an opportunity for personal growth and for learning more effective strategies for managing stress, anxiety, and inner conflict. It is an inherently collaborative process that requires an emotionally-attuned, highly trained therapist and a client willing to enter into a therapeutic relationship which, by definition, is different from his or her other relationships. The process is conversational and reflective, requiring only a desire for self-understanding. My therapeutic approach is empathic and nonjudgmental. I focus on providing insight into the dynamics that perpetuate emotional suffering and self-defeating behavior. It is my belief that a lively and engaged working alliance strengthens existing coping skills and facilitates healing. Only in a therapeutic relationship experienced as safe does one entertain new perspectives and make choices less determined by the legacy of the past. I offer relationship and marriage counseling for couples and individual psychotherapy to adults, adolescents and children. (Read more about my clinical services). A licensed clinical psychologist who has been practicing psychotherapy and performing comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations for more than twenty years, I received my B.A in Psychology and Philosophy and my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from New York University where I was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Chi. I interned at the Westchester Division of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical Center where I also served as a second year child fellow and received additional neuropsychological training. I am currently on the consulting faculty of the Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut as a supervisor in the Doctoral Psychology Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship training programs. The author of numerous professional papers about psychotherapy and psychoanalytic theory, I have served as an editorial consultant for Psychoanalytic Psychology. home | clinical | educational | corporate publications | links | map | contact