We are a community of therapists dedicated to helping people of all ages achieve personal effectiveness, optimize personal and professional relationships, and increase their emotional intelligence!
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The Gearing Up Advantage
Most Effective Therapies
Nationally renowned psychologists and acclaimed counselors offering the most effective therapies in the industry.
Drive for Excellence
Our counselors are experienced, results oriented and unrelenting in their drive for excellence. Our therapies and programs for kids and teens are the best in Dallas.
Media Psychologist
Dr. Sylvia is an internationally published author and media psychologist who has been a contributor on NBC’s Today Show and was recently featured on Dr. Phil in May 2009. Currently, she reports every week on CBS 11/TXA 21 News.
Innovative Therapy Programs
The Gearings’ research, included in college textbooks, curriculum and in current psychology best sellers, generates innovative therapy programs, such as our celebrated Growing Girls Strong therapy and the CoupLinks Marriage Program. Both programs are on the cutting edge of psychology.
Long Established Practice
Serving the Greater Dallas area since 1985, Gearing Up! Psychologists and Counselors have helped thousands of North Texans build new lives.
Upcoming Third Book
As a research team, the Gearings continue to offer new insights on current issues. Their third book, based on their current research study, Masterful Women, will be published in 2010.
Engaged In Discovery
Personality and Emotional Evaluations
Lasting change begins with the best plan to implement that change.
At Gearing Up, we begin with a thorough assessment of your emotional resources, personality and history before we begin therapy. Our assessment team uses the latest assessment technology to answer the important questions about your emotional wellbeing, coping skills, self image, self esteem, trust in others, the effectiveness of your coping abilities under adversity, empathy skills and much more.
Once we have these vital answers, we create a customized treatment plan to achieve the lasting change you desire.
We will teach you the skills of emotional intelligence, interpersonal effectiveness and excellence in coping skills. Our work will focus on how to avoid thinking inaccuracies, how your negative beliefs affect your thoughts and emotions, and how to avoid negative, self-sabotaging behaviors and much more.
Empowered Change
We are change agents.
Gearing Up’s cutting edge approach to psychotherapy is based on the best psychological science, the wealth of our research, and our twenty five years of experience.
Our primary approach is Cognitive Behavioral therapy which focuses on changing sabotaging negative beliefs while learning new effective, accurate methods of handling emotions and adversity. Emotional intelligence is the guiding principle in our work since we believe that the capable stewardship of our own emotions and the emotions of others leads to greater understanding, compromise, rapport and effective communication. Emotional drama is minimized and achievement is maximized. Personal clarity, wellbeing, and self confidence flourish when emotional intelligence is maximized.
At Gearing Up, we focus on two platforms of intervention.
First Platform of Treatment:
We empower you by assisting you in overcoming your presenting symptoms. We utilize every tool in our therapy “arsenal” to overcome and defeat your problems and challenges. Anxiety, depression and stress recede as your psychological “muscle” is strengthened.
Ninety percent of depression is episodic and it strikes a full decade earlier than it did a generation ago.
Clinical depression, anxiety and stress thrive in an atmosphere of helplessness and hopelessness. We believe that sustainable positive change is possible when your thinking shifts to the limitless positive possibilities before you. We have helped thousands of people discover how to make that shift.
Elevated Living
Sustain Your Change
Second Platform of Treatment:
Our second platform of treatment focuses on the fundamentals of emotional intelligence and resilience training to sustain your progress. We will teach you how to understand your emotions, how to use emotion to effectively communicate with others, how to modulate your own emotions, how to develop greater empathy and compassion and how to maintain balance and accurate thinking under adversity. You will become an excellent judge of character due to your own emotional clarity.
By learning these essential tools of elevating your thoughts, you will maintain a more realistic, optimistic perspective. Challenges will become surmountable and connections with others will thrive. Your therapy gains will remain and your life will realize unprecedented success.
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