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About Dr. Sharon K. Farber

Dr. Farber is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work. She maintains a private practice in psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and adults in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. She can help with problems around moods, anxiety, relationships, divorce, concerns about school or work. She is the founder of Westchester Eating Disorders Consultation Services. Other special interests are self-injury and other mind-body problems, dissociation, ADHD, cult involvement, and creativity.

Education: BA, Barnard College; MSW, Hunter College School of Social Work; PhD, New York University School of Social Work.

Professional Training: Dr. Farber trained at the Institute for the Study of Psychotherapy and privately in psychoanalysis, child treatment, and eating disorders.

She has taught at medical schools, schools of social work, and training institutes, and ran a week-long summer seminar at the Cape Cod Institute on treatment of patients who harm themselves.

Read a transcript of an on-line interview with her about eating problems and self-injury. Instructions: under information, click on transcripts, then either self-injury or eating disorders, then Dr. Sharon K. Farber.

She is the author of several publications, including a book, When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments. Order book directly from the publisher.

She has completed a second book about ecstatic experience.

Need A Therapist?

Problems in relationships? Marital problems? Divorce or separation? Parent-child relationships? Intimacy? Relationships? Concerned about your child? Adult Or Child ADHD? Difficulties with food, weight, and dieting? Self-injury? Feeling down, trouble getting yourself going? Sexual issues? Addiction? Anxiety?

Psychotherapy is above all a human relationship. Basic to any psychotherapy is a beginning sense of comfort in the relationship with your therapist. I am honored to listen to the stories people tell about their lives. As the story unfolds, I can provide a different way of looking at it, a new and different perspective that can help you create a new and better life story.

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to treatment, and so I use an integrated approach tailored to meet your specific needs, selectively integrating psychodynamic with cognitive-behavioral, dialectical behavioral, and family systems approaches.

Adult Or Child ADHD

If you have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or live with someone who does, then you know how inattentiveness, distractibility, and impulsivity can be an obstacle in relationships with family, friends, and people at work. These difficulties can stand in the way of doing well in school or on the job, but only if you allow them to. Many people with ADHD go on to live productive, satisfying, often creative lives. Yes, ADHD can feel like a curse but it can also be a blessing. It depends on how you harness your energy and abilities. Medication is one way of coping with ADHD but is not the only way. When you start to take charge of your ADHD rather than letting it take charge of you, medication can be reduced or might not even be necessary.

There is a lot that even medical and mental health professionals do not know about ADHD, especially in girls and women, because symptom patterns may be different than in males. There are also a number of other conditions which present the same symptoms, so even if you think you have ADHD, you may have some other condition that can produce the same set of symptoms. When you know what it is that is causing your ADHD-like symptoms, then you can get the treatment that you need.

If you have any of these concerns, I might be of help to you.

Need A Speaker?

Having worked with many people over the years, I have learned a great deal from the stories I have heard. My clients have been my best teachers. I enjoy bringing this knowledge to a larger audience, whether it be an organization, parent group, or group of mental health clinicians. I have spoken to small groups as well as groups of 300 people. I have also appeared on cable and network television (Good Day, New York; Travel Channel). Some of the topics I have spoken about include.