Psychotherapy

Over the 23 years he has been doing psychotherapy, Dr. Weibel has helped many people with:

Worry, stress, anxiety, panic, obsessive thoughts

Sadness, depression, mood fluctuations

Relationships: coworkers, friends, family, romantic

ADHD, compulsivity

Body image issues, fitness, & health

Coping with illness & pain management

Substance abuse &  other escape behaviors

Loss and grief

Creating a meaningful life

You can likely benefit from one or more of the following orientations, schools, or approaches below, which have literatures and evidence behind them. We can also integrate and combine approaches to meet your needs. Matching techniques to your needs and motivations is important, as is establishing a solid therapeutic alliance. 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

We evaluate evidence for thoughts that are not serving you, and provide alternative views and perspectives that help you think in a more flexible manner, positively influencing feelings and actions.

Behavioral

We increase desirable behaviors by experimentation, practice, and shifting rewards. We can also overcome fears by gradually and systematically facing them.

Mindfulness

We heighten our awareness, observing thoughts with non-judgment and acceptance, realizing that we are more than our thoughts and do not have to take any one thought as the sum of our reality. This will lessen our reactivity and stress and help us make wise choices.

Psychodynamic

We explore our interpersonal patterns to determine if we learned any models and styles of relating that no longer serve us, and then experiment with new ways of relating that slowly change our original expectations of relationships. 

Existential

We face and explore the universal givens of responsibility, isolation, meaning, and impermanence, and realize that we can create a meaningful life.

Strengthen your family bonds, improve communication, and resolve conflicts with a compassionate, family-focused approach to therapy.

RELATIONSHIPS

Friends

Making new ones, nourishing the old

Family

Marriage, divorce, & re-marriage

Estrangement – why, when, how to do it, how to avoid it

Dating, partnering, & sexuality

Finding, bonding, attachment

Parenting

Staying on the same page

Interpersonal patterns, skills, & style

Avoid blaming, seize responsibility, build trust 

Increase perspective taking & compassion

Be playful & take the ego less seriously

MEANING & ALL THINGS INTERPERSONAL

How can I best serve the world?

Having gratitude during the changes in our roles & identities

Creating meaning before my time is up

Overcome depression, improve your mood and energy levels, and increase your quality of life with personalized, evidence-based depression treatment.

Dr. Weibel practices scientifically and empirically based psychotherapy. He earned his Ph.D. withina therapy research team, and knows the origins and theories of therapies, how they are tested, how psychotherapy compares to and complements other treatments, and how best to flexibly practice therapy with each client.

Dr. Weibel focuses primarily on psychotherapy in his practice. In the past he did formal evaluations including ADHD, Veterans’ compensation and pension, Social Security Income disability, pre-surgery for bariatric and pain, and competency to stand trial, but now focuses on helping people overcome obstacles and thrive via psychotherapy.

Dr. Weibel has sat on the other side of the couch. He believes in a traditional model of training which indicated that a professional should have received therapy to practice therapy. Dr. Weibel cannot imagine receiving a swim lesson from a coach who never received a lesson, and believes a similar principle applies to psychotherapy. The therapist as an expert technician model would counter that a surgeon does not have to have been a brain surgery patient to perform brain surgery. For the surgeon, this model of a healthy technician treating a sick patient makes sense. However, psychotherapy is a meeting of two equals, engaged in a collaborative exploration. Thus, having sat in the client’s seat helps the therapist, and their future clients.

Dr. Weibel has experience outside psychology. He has a B.A. in business-economics and an M.B.A. in management. He worked for three years in a startup in Silicon Valley, and thus collaborated with engineer, finance, and market ing types. He also was a personal fitness trainer for three years as he transitioned to psychology. He continues to exercise regularly, though he appears to also like eating.

He has been lucky enough to travel widely including solo month-long trips to places such as Cambodia and Guatemala, as well as a volunteer stint teaching math in Spanish in Nicaragua. Practicing on the Main Line of Philadelphia since 2020 means that he has now lived in the West for childhood, the Midwest for a Ph.D., the South for his wife to earn tenure, and now Philadelphia to continue his practice. Dr. Weibel believes his broad background and life experience are an asset to understanding many types of people.

Handouts that Dr. Weibel created as supplements to therapy: 

The handouts are not the therapy, but they do give you an idea of some of the ways we can work together.

What to Expect in the First Session

Healing Relationship Patterns

Changing Our Relationship to Thoughts – CBT & Mindfulness 

Dr. Weibel also offers his services in Spanish. Dr. Weibel does not call himself ‘fluent’, as some days he is not sure if he is fluent in English before coffee. Dr. Weibel is conversant enough in Spanish to conduct psychotherapy and has done so since 2008. Dr. Weibel lets the client decide if his Spanish is good enough for the client. This is usually done on the first phone call, and the majority have said Dr. Weibel’s Spanish was good enough to pursue therapy. Dr. Weibel was lucky enough to have great Spanish instruction in Palo Alto from 4th to 12th grade. During his Ph.D. he took two years of Spanish for fun. Some of the best moments of his life involved four solo adventures of approximately one month each to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Guatemala. Dr. Weibel greatly enjoys meeting and bonding with people from many countries, cultures, and backgrounds.

Dr. Weibel has never solicited reviews in any manner, whether by directly asking current or former clients or by leaving cards or signs out  in his office, or via email.

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Dr. Weibel does not accept new people whose primary issue is anorexia or bulimia, but will treat other eating issues, such body dysmor phia or binge eating disorder. Anorexia can be life threatening, and is often best treated in specialized clinics that monitor medical data and nutrition.

Dr. Weibel does not currently take on new clients who are actively suicidal. Dr. Weibel has done so in the past, but now he is not in a group practice or hospital setting, and thus has less resources than a clinic or hospital. He has great compassion for those struggling with suicidality and respect for clinicians engaged in this work.

Dr. Weibel does not currently accept new clients whose primary issue is Borderline Personality Disorder. Dr. Weibel has done some decent work with people with this issue in the past, and will still work with folks with borderline traits, but not full BPD. He believes specialized DBT groups in conjunction with individual therapy may be the best approach.

Dr. Weibel does not accept new people whose primary issue is anorexia or bulimia, but will treat other eating issues, such body dysmor phia or binge eating disorder. Anorexia can be life threatening, and is often best treated in specialized clinics that monitor medical data and nutrition.

Dr. Weibel does not currently take on new clients who are actively suicidal. Dr. Weibel has done so in the past, but now he is not in a group practice or hospital setting, and thus has less resources than a clinic or hospital. He has great compassion for those struggling with suicidality and respect for clinicians engaged in this work.

Dr. Weibel does not currently accept new clients whose primary issue is Borderline Personality Disorder. Dr. Weibel has done some decent work with people with this issue in the past, and will still work with folks with borderline traits, but not full BPD. He believes specialized DBT groups in conjunction with individual therapy may be the best approach.

Dr. Weibel does not accept new people whose primary issue is anorexia or bulimia, but will treat other eating issues, such body dysmor phia or binge eating disorder. Anorexia can be life threatening, and is often best treated in specialized clinics that monitor medical data and nutrition.

Dr. Weibel does not currently take on new clients who are actively suicidal. Dr. Weibel has done so in the past, but now he is not in a group practice or hospital setting, and thus has less resources than a clinic or hospital. He has great compassion for those struggling with suicidality and respect for clinicians engaged in this work.

Dr. Weibel does not currently accept new clients whose primary issue is Borderline Personality Disorder. Dr. Weibel has done some decent work with people with this issue in the past, and will still work with folks with borderline traits, but not full BPD. He believes specialized DBT groups in conjunction with individual therapy may be the best approach.