Evidence-based, personality-focused psychotherapy services with enhanced availability and support.
Psychodynamic therapy
Psychodynamic therapy is one of the oldest and most celebrated therapy traditions in the world. Compared to CBT, psychodynamic therapy places greater emphasis on our relationships and how they shape who we are and whom we become. Although there are many schools of psychodynamic therapy, Dr. Maxwell uses a modern and research-supported therapy called transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP). TFP is a kind of psychodynamic therapy that helps us understand how our experiences of our relationships often shape how we think, feel, and behave in our worlds. It has been shown to especially help people with borderline and other personality disorders.
Dr. Maxwell received three years of training in TFP under the mentorship of the treatment’s leading minds at the Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine. He completed additional coursework and supervision in TFP provided by faculty at Columbia University.
Dialectical-behavior therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a structured, skills-based treatment originally developed to help people who experience intense emotions and difficulty managing them. While grounded in cognitive-behavioral principles, DBT also emphasizes mindfulness, acceptance, and the balance between change and stability. DBT helps people build concrete skills in areas such as distress tolerance, emotional regulation, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness. Research has consistently shown DBT to be particularly effective for borderline personality disorder, self-harm, and other conditions involving emotional dysregulation.
Mentalization-based therapy
Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT) is a modern and evidence-based form of psychodynamic treatment. Like other therapies, MBT is concerned with how we think, feel, and relate to others, but it places particular emphasis on strengthening our ability to “mentalize” (i.e., to understand both our own mental states and those of the people around us). By improving this capacity, we can better regulate our emotions, navigate relationships, and respond to challenges with greater clarity. MBT has been shown to be especially effective for people struggling with borderline personality disorder and other difficulties involving intense emotions and relationships.
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Every 60-minute therapy session guarantees one week of daily access to Dr. Maxwell via text, email, and/or brief phone call (e.g., 5-10 minutes). These brief correspondences are encouraged to reinforce the transfer of learning (e.g., CBT skills) from therapy to situations commonly encountered in the person’s daily life (e.g., a stressful encounter with a difficult coworker, procrastination before an important deadline, or a visit to or from family members).
Clinical research strongly supports the use of brief, daily correspondence to improve psychotherapy outcomes and adherence. Key reasons include:
Supportive accountability fosters commitment to specific goals and to change, broadly speaking.
Enhanced measurement-based care with daily or near-daily ecological momentary assessments (i.e., very brief symptom measurements) helps your psychologist understand how your thoughts and feelings change from day to day.
Boosted generalization of learning beyond the therapy context with situation-specific feedback from and support of your psychologist.
Maxwell NewYork is proud to be part of a changing, contemporary landscape of mental health services that includes greater access to support from day to day.
Tracking personal growth, changes in symptoms, and progress toward goals in psychotherapy is important. In fact, best practices in psychotherapy urge mental health providers to at least offer their clients opportunities to use tools that help measure therapeutic change.
Dr. Maxwell routinely uses the outcome measures to help monitor clients’ changes in therapy over time. These measures include the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ), and more.