Lynne M. Welsh, M.S

Lynne Welsh, M.S.Hello, Welcome to Welsh Therapy. I've worked with parents and teens in Doylestown for over 30 years. With the current child and adolescent mental health crisis in our country, my focus is on ensuring that our practice can meet the current mental health demands in our community. For this reason, we work with four other practices in the community to ensure the right fit with a therapist for each client whether inside or outside of our practice. The right therapist fit is essential to the therapy being successful. In 30 years I've worked with many different specialties. - The first ten years of being in private practice I worked with anorexia nervosa exclusively. I had worked at The Renfrew Center in my graduate program and felt motivated to help these kids.-When I had my daughters I slowly transitioned into less crisis-oriented work and began working with teens with anxiety, depression, and self-esteem issues. - As my children began to become more independent, I …accepted a teen with Oppositional Defiant Disorder as a favor to a colleague who thought we would be a good fit to work together. From the moment I began working with this client I became immersed in everything and anything about ODD and began to accept other cases. I loved working with these kids and their parents and as a team with my client and their parents, we were able to move toward change and healing. With so many other responsibilities in managing my practice, I have limited space for clinical hours. After speaking with a new parent of an ODD client on an intake call, I know fairly quickly if I am the right fit for them. Once they meet me they decide if the feeling is mutual. If not I have other therapists who are highly skilled with ODD clients.