Emily Krestow, PHD

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THE GOAL IS TO FEEL BETTER

With 35 years of experience as a psychotherapist, and as a certified psychoanalyst since 1991, I have helped people successfully work through obstacles to feeling better and leading more gratifying lives. My approach to therapy emphasizes insight, self-awareness and empowerment. It is a collaboration, a working together to understand the meaning of symptoms, to find new options for solving problems, to gain perspective on yourself and to put other peoples' behavior into perspective.

I offer a safe place for people to explore their very personal concerns; to develop healthier relationships, to cope with painful life events. I do considerable work helping couples reconnect and address issues that are obstacles to happy and healthy relationships.

I am also experienced working with those who suffer from eating disorders, and with all whose lives are difficult or painful in other ways - who struggle with depression, anxiety, anger, guilt or self-doubts.
Dr. Emily Krestow Portrait

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NEWS

January 27, 2010: the Veterans Project of South Florida-SOFAR has obtained $60,000 in grants from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation and the Florida BrAIve Fund, for administrative and training costs. With these funds we will sponsor well-known experts in combat trauma to soldiers and their families, military mental health care and military culture to speak to us and to other service providers. Dr. Krestow is a member; if you are a Veteran or even pre-deployment, you may be eligible for these services. Please contact Dr. Krestow for more information.

January 10, 2010: Attention colleagues: SEFIPP is now offering a monthly two-hour case seminar led by three members of the SEFIPP faculty, beginning March 2010. These case seminars will emphasize discussion of faculty and student case material as a fulcrum for examination of current psychoanalytic concepts and their application to psychodynamic psychotherapy. Dr. Krestow will lead Seminar One: The Meaning of Patients' Symptoms. For more information, go to http://www.sefapp.org

PREVIOUS NEWS

September 21, 2008 Emily Krestow is working on a joint committee of Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (SEFAPP) and the Florida Psychoanalytic Society to provider free mental health services to returning Iraq and Afghanistan U.S. veterans. Check back for more information as this progresses

January 8, 2008 Emily Krestow contributed to the book “A Guide to Listening” by Linda Eve Diamond. READ HERE

May 6, 2007 Emily Krestow is a discussant at the 14th annual gathering of FREUD AMONGST THE ARTS at the The Caldwell Theatre Company, 7873 North Federal Highway, Boca Raton, Florida. Showing will be a benefit performance of "THE CLEAN HOUSE" By Sarah Ruhl, Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
for Best Play Written in English by a Female Playwright for 2004. View a picture of Dr. Krestow discussing the play before the audience.

April 6-7, 2006 Conference on Substance Abuse, April 6-7, 2006 at Nova Southeastern University, East Campus, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Presented by Broward County Human Services Department, Substance Abuse and Health care Services Division.

April 6, 2006: 3:45 to 5:00, Emily Krestow will be on a panel to discuss Eating Disorders. This panel will address multiple addictions. Her presentation will help distinguish developmental differences between obesity, anorexia nervosa and bulimia so that clinicians will be able to clinically respond with an insightful approach that respects rather than reduces the complexity of human development.

March 25, 2006 to May 27, 2006: Emily Krestow to conduct S.E.F.I.P.P seminars for mental health professionals on the topic of EATING DISORDERS.The object of this mini-course is to understand (a) the intrapsychic dramas of these syndromes, which tell far more than the physical manifestations of the battle over weight; (b) the interpersonal struggles, including the therapist-patient relationship; and (c) what this means for treatment.

May 14, 2005 The Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology and The Southeast Florida Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy presents the "Distinguished Psychoanalyst Award" to Emily Krestow, Ph.D. In appreciation for her leadership, tutelage and dedication to Psychoanalysis and or her inspiration and immeasurable contribution to the growth and development of both S.E.F.A.P.P. and S.E.F.I.P.P. May 14, 2005