Kenneth Skale

Take a moment to consider what brings you here. People enter therapy for many reasons, and one can easily begin to feel like a problem to be fixed; however, Dr. Skale believes there is value in coming to understand that your current struggles are the result of your best efforts to navigate through life. From this place of mindful acceptance, you can make sense of how your problems developed and begin to work through them. However you came to be reading these words, recognize that you have taken the first step on the road toward health and wellbeing.

Dr. Skale practices psychodynamic therapy with adults facing depression, anxiety, addiction, anger, relationship problems, and personality issues. His approach emphasizes trust, working in the “here-and-now,” and making sense of one’s life story. Humor is also essential to therapeutic work, as therapy should mirror real life—half serious, half fun. Dr. Skale also incorporates elements of mindfulness into both individual and group therapy and encourages his clients to develop a meditative practice independent of psychotherapeutic work. Finally, Dr. Skale works behaviorally to help his clients find specific ways to live differently and progress toward their goals.