Kerschmann and Associates

History

Karen Kershmann is an experienced psychotherapist who has spent more than 15 years developing expertise in clinical practice through her work with adults, adolescents and families. Utilizing two main modalities of treatment, cognitive behavioral therapy and hypnotherapy, she helps clients realize significant change in their lives. Her credentials include the completion of 100-hours of advanced clinical hypnosis training with the internationally recognized psychotherapist Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D. Ms. Kershmann also consults with Dr. Yapko on a regular basis.

Specialties

If you're feeling stuck, having difficulty coping with transitions, or think you might have depression or anxiety, you can make lifelong changes that can help you take back your life starting with our first session. Using cognitive behavioral techniques we can quickly identify negative patterns in thought, behavior and feeling and begins to create a treatment plan to restructure your patterns to achieve long lasting and effective results. In addition to traditional cognitive therapy, I find clinical hypnosis can provide great benefit. Aaron Beck, the father of CBT, has proposed that the partnership of cognitive techniques with hypnosis is especially effective for long-term change.