Psychotherapy Services

Individual Therapy, Couple Therapy, Family Therapy

Janet Miller Wiseman
The Negotiation Collaborative, Lexington, MA

Psychotherapy is used to diagnose and treat disorders in individuals, couples and families, in adults as well as adolescents, such as:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Panic disorder
• Post-traumatic stress
• Obsessional disorder
• Bi-polar manic-depression
• Grief reactions
• Reactions to life-changing events
• Relationship difficulties

People learn:

• The facts about their conditions
• Explore options for coping and improving
• To accept that they, themselves, are much grander than any condition
• Exchange childhood thinking patterns for mature, thought out patterns
   of thought and action
• How to present information in a way that enhances rather than
   destroys communication
• How to negotiate rather than giving in or compromising

Our specialized framework helps individuals, couples and families quickly learn how to improve and then resolve acute or long-standing internal or interpersonal issues, starting with each individual’s goals for a shorter or intermediate term intervention.

In many cases, we help people strengthen their relationships through couple counseling or couple therapy, in other cases help them decide about the future direction of their relationships or reach a joint decision through Mediation Therapy: Short-Term Decision Making for Relationships in Conflict. Roommates or couples, heterosexual or same sex, learn critical negotiation skills in roommate or premarital mediation. People who have a primary disorder also use psychotherapy to help them restructure their families or to deal with blended family issues.

Ms. Miller Wiseman uses her training in psychodynamic therapy at Simmons College, her training in the system theories of Carl Whitaker etc. at the Boston Family Institute (1972), her training in negotiation over 30 years at the Program on Negotiation, Harvard University, in divorce mediation at the Academy of Family Mediators, her long-term membership in peer psychotherapy, mental health mediators, divorce and collaborative law mediation consultation groups, in brief psychotherapy from Margaret Fangor, and Susan Tohn plus various systems of training and personal work in Asian mediation to provide a holistic approach to caring, supporting, and joining in the healing and improvement of people's lives.

All of the books of highly regarded John Gottsman, couples psychotherapist/marriage counselor, are suggested reading for partners before, during and after their partners intervention. 

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Janet Miller Wiseman provides Mediation and Counseling Services in the Boston area. She is an accomplished Divorce Mediator, Family Mediator and Couples/Family Therapist. She has 39 years of experience as an individual/couple/family psychotherapist and 32 years of experience as a divorce mediator. Her office is located in Lexington, MA. and while she serves clients from all over Massachusetts, many of her clients are from Acton, Arlington, Burlington, Bedford, Concord, Gloucester, Framingham, Lincoln, Malden, Newton, Watertown, Wellesley, Winchester, Waltham, Woburn, Reading and Salem. Janet is also willing to travel to your location for training, presentations and workshops.