The Center for Creative Living a full service counseling facility in Coral Springs, offers specialized counseling services for adults, adolescents, and children. We provide individual, couple, family, and group therapy. In addition, we offer psychological testing to assess such conditions as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD), learning disabilities, gifted abilities, and various affective/behavioral disorders. We are one of the few clinical psychology centers in South Florida that deals specifically with treating the adult and child performer. Our Creative Potential clinicians are trained and experienced both as therapists and performers, giving them the knowledge and direct insight in empathy regarding life, pressures, expectations and joys of performance. This specialized clinical service also includes assisting individuals and team sports participants of all ages and proficiency levels to enhance their athletic competence.

Dr. Ron Mercer, Co-director and Corporate and Community Director of our Center, Dr. Mercer provides individual, couple, marital, group and family psychotherapy and specializes in the treatment of men's issues, adolescent Oppositional Defiant Disorder, marital therapy, and hypnotherapy. As a men's issues expert, Dr. Mercer conducts groups and workshops for men entitled "LifeMasters". Dr. Mercer is the director of our Creative Potential program, which is geared toward treating performing artists and athletes in order to minimize pre-performance anxiety and enhance optimal performance. Dr. Mercer also provides psychological and educational/intellectual testing. He also works in the corporate/organizational arena as a consultant, enhancing communication skills, minimizing stress in the workplace, achieving overall wellness, and conflict resolution. Additionally, he is a specialist in custody evaluations and therapy for the Family Court of Broward County.

Susan Schwartz-Mercer, MSW, LCSW co-directs the Center and is Clinical Director, specializing in treating anxiety disorders, depression, couples and family issues, grief counseling, support for chronic and terminal illness, and adoption issues. In addition to being a therapist, as former director of Advocates for Children and Families, Susan is also a private adoption consultant who facilitates adoption by conducting birth parent interviews, adoptive parent home studies, and offering psychotherapy for adoptees' and their families with issues related to adoption.

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Our center offers specialized counseling services for adults, adolescents and children. We provide individual, couple, family, and group therapy.

Our services include but are not limited to:

• Anger Reduction
• Mid-Life Crisis
• Career Conflicts
• Intimacy Difficulties
• Excessive Stress Management
• Marital Problems
• Adoption
• Abuse

  Marriage Counseling
  
  We at the Center for Creative Living are firm believers in "marital maintenance" therapy. Rather than only contacting a therapist when in crisis, we believe that maintaining a mutually beneficial and happy relationship is a lifelong process. Couples with successful marriages realize that there are life-stages that we all go through that impact our relationships, such as illness, jobs, children, and at each stage there must be communication as to whether goals are set and are being met for each of those stages. Working on keeping your spouse happy will enhance your own satisfaction within the marriage. Identifying your emotional barriers and learning to work through them, will help you achieve a more fulfilled marriage. We also offer various clinical modalities to help you move through and survive the crisis periods in your marriage, including Imago couples therapy.

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Adolescent Therapy

If you are 15-19 years of age and experienced one or more of the following this group is for you:

1. Feeling lack of direction in life goals and difficulty in making decisions.
2. Anxiety regarding making wrong decisions.
3. Difficult transitioning from home to living away at college and/or feeling adjusted at college.
4. Feelings of increased irritability/anger

ADHD/ADD Support Group

1. Do you or anyone you know have ADHD/ADD?
2. Do you need tips and ideas for behavior management?
3. We have concepts/techniques which will help the ADD individual as well as their family.
4. Discussions regarding medication versus behavioral management.

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SMOKING, PHOBIAS & OBESITY -- Dr. Ron Mercer conducts therapeutic hypnosis group and individual sessions to help people control their behaviors like smoking, phobias and obesity. Dr. Mercer is a certified hypnotherapist. In addition to traditional therapy, Dr. Mercer's experience also includes 10 hours of training in Hypnotherapy for the cessation of smoking and phobias and 40 hours of training in advanced hypnosis for treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and early memory regression.

CANCER WELLNESS -- Hypnotherapy and guided imagery for cancer patients.
Cancer is an affliction of the physical body. It can and does create a great deal of anguish and stress for both the cancer patients and the loved ones. Dr. Mercer can help you learn to use the power of hypnosis and imaginal thinking to cope better with your specific disease. The teaching of progressive muscle relaxation and breathing, positive imagery and healing visualization will help you cope with the disease.

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For more information, please call (954) 755-8247