Dr. Judy Scheel
Over 25 years of Experience
Grounded in clinical theory and the belief that living authentically underscores satisfaction and happiness.
Dr. Scheel’s Blogs on Psychology Today
Psychotherapist Licensed in North Carolina,
New York, and California
For the individual, couple, or family entity seeking the utmost professionalism, discretion, and expertise – Judy Scheel, Ph.D., LCSW, CEDS has many years of credentialed education, training, personal psychoanalysis, and a lifetime of compelling professional and personal opportunities. She is grounded in her values of respect, integrity, and enduring connections which underscore the basis of all relationships.
Dr. Scheel is a seasoned and respected psychodynamically oriented psychotherapist practicing for more than 30 years. Her expertise is widely recognized, with her work garnering positive reviews from both patients and peers in the field who consistently refer to her for her clinical, supervisory, and academic training skills. Unconscious processes & exploration of relationships underscore her framework while integrating solid cognitive and behavioral strategies in her psychotherapy practice.
Dr. Scheel’s clinical orientation coupled with psychological forensic training has enabled her to work as an individual, couple and family therapist as well as a psychological consultant in various organizations and corporate entities.
Dr. Scheel’s Therapeutic Approaches
Psychological freedom is the connection to our own personal truth, dismantling resistances, and fears, understanding our contradictory emotions and what “drives our bus” from a deep place within.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is the process of understanding the psychological motivations which fuel our behavior, thinking, and feelings. Knowledge is power. Better decision making and life choices are possible as a result of gaining insight into our deepest thoughts, wishes, feelings, and fantasies – What makes us tick.
What Kinds of Issues Are Treated In Psychotherapy?
Dr. Scheel treats individuals, couples, and families for in general mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, relationship, and intimacy issues.. She is considered an expert in the treatment of eating disorders and has received advanced specialized training in sex therapy and also forensic psychology. She is highly trained in a variety of psychological theories which enables her to understand people and issues through a variety of lenses.
Causes for these issues vary from childhood, family, and interpersonal issues, to predispositions to anxiety and depression, sexual and physical trauma, cultural and/or religious expectations that are in conflict with how the person feels. Sometimes, the person limits their potential because of fear of risk-taking, fear of failure or success, inability to be happy in life and so makes decisions to keep themselves down. Fears of all sorts, guilt for past or current behavior or guilt for wanting to be happy, shame and sadness all influence our thoughts and decision making. Fears build defenses, often without us knowing; therapy enables what is unknown or forgotten (repressed,) to be known and experienced toward positive outcomes.
Individual, Couples, and Family Psychotherapy
Understanding motivation, and integrating knowledge and awareness into decisions and choices made in life, define Dr. Scheel’s practice, whether it is for the individual seeking to know what drives their proverbial ‘bus’ or the couple or family seeking to repair, create, or rebuild relationships.
Why is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Useful in Psychodynamic Therapy?
Symptoms are physical and experienced manifestations of conflict and pain and vary from anxiety, depression, self-defeating and self-destructive behaviors like eating disorders, shopaholism, addictions including alcohol and prescription drugs, cutting, porn.
Symptomatic relief from self-defeating and destructive behaviors are treated utilizing Cognitive Behavioral techniques. Sometimes, insight into the problem or issues is not enough to make changes. Sometimes retraining how we process others’ reactions, perspectives and feelings is necessary. Sometimes negative thinking about self-concept interferes with the ability to meet goals or take risks. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment works well with these issues.
Dr. Scheel’s clinical orientation coupled with psychological forensic training has enabled her to work as an individual, couple and family therapist as well as a psychological consultant in various organizations and corporate entities