Dr. Abdulmalek Sadah
I am triple board-certified in Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, and Internal Medicine, having trained at West Virginia University and Indiana University-Purdue University.
I aim to see my clients fully satisfied with heir life.
Over the past 13 years, I have worked in various settings, including clinics, hospitals, and residential facilities, serving diverse patient populations of all ages and cultural backgrounds. I am dedicated to supporting my clients throughout their healing journeys and helping them improve their lives.
First session
The first session we will try to know each other and understand the areas that need improvement in your life. The initial visit essentially aims to establish a diagnostic evaluation and a plan of treatment.
Strengths
I excel in detecting the root problems and finding solutions. I am detail oriented and holistic in my approach. I aim to see my clients fully satisfied with heir life.
Ideal clients
I like helping clients who are interested in understanding themselves and others around them and want to have a meaning and purpose in life.
Treatment methods
Existential
Existential psychotherapy focuses on exploring the human condition as a whole. It addresses fundamental issues such as meaning, freedom, isolation, and mortality. This approach helps individuals confront and make sense of these existential concerns, encouraging them to live more authentically and purposefully.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach that views the mind as made up of different "parts" or subpersonalities, each with its own perspective, desires, and emotions. These parts often develop in response to life experiences, especially trauma or emotional wounds. The goal of IFS therapy is to help individuals access their "Self," a core, compassionate, and balanced part of their identity, which can then guide and heal their inner system. The therapy helps people understand, communicate with, and integrate their different parts, fostering internal harmony and emotional healing.
Eclectic
The electric style of psychotherapy, more accurately called **eclectic psychotherapy**, is a flexible therapeutic approach that draws on techniques and theories from various schools of psychotherapy, rather than relying on a single method. This style allows therapists to tailor treatment to the individual needs of each client, selecting the most effective strategies based on the client’s specific issues, personality, and preferences. For example, a therapist might combine cognitive-behavioral techniques with psychodynamic insights or mindfulness practices, aiming to address the client’s symptoms, underlying causes, and personal growth in a comprehensive way.
Psychodynamic
I had considerable training in brief psychodynamic therapy which focuses on uncovering and understanding unconscious processes that influence a person's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It aims to explore how past experiences, particularly early childhood relationships, shape current emotional conflicts and interpersonal dynamics.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy that aims to change patterns of thinking or behavior that are causing people's problems, and thus change the way they feel. It focuses on challenging and altering unhelpful cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and developing personal coping strategies to target current problems.
Location
Virtual sessions
In-person sessions3900 Sunforest Ct, Toledo, OH 43623, Suite 229