Psychotherapy – Counseling For:
Children, Families, Adults.

Dr. Wagman specializes in children and families at risk.

Child Advocate in Custody Cases.
Expert Witness: Divorce & Custody cases.
Educator, Author.

Available as a speaker on the long-term effects on children
of divorce and custody battles

760-479-2420

2236 Encinitas Blvd., Suite E
Encinitas, CA 92024
e-mail: dr.janphd@earthlink.net

HIGHLY EXPERIENCED AS A:
• Child advocate within public and private school systems – seeking input from psychiatrists, pediatricians and primary care physicians.

• Child advocate in both divorce and custody proceedings.

• Spousal advocate in divorce proceedings.

¶ Educational advocate in all endeavors in life: relationships, marriage, work, health, parenting, retirement, personal loss

Why the Need for a Psychotherapist.

Anger, frustration, hopelessness – these are just some of what Dr. Jan Wagman calls the “emotional barbed wire” that prevents people from freeing themselves of the problems that create lives filled with despair, anxiety and fear. A psychotherapist is trained to help people find ways out of their emotional prisons and into the emotional freedoms they long for.

Children, especially, need the guidance and support of a psychotherapist when divorce, child custody battles, school, peers or home problems overwhelm their lives.

Due to her unusual background as a special education teacher and educational therapist along with her degrees in psychology, Marriage, Family Therapy and Human Behavior, Dr. Wagman has created a unique therapeutic method –Therapeutic Mentoring ™.

Combining psychotherapeutic principles with educational precepts, Dr. Wagman is able to quickly help her clients focus in on the real issues that trouble them, help them discover a variety of potential solutions, and educate her clients how to implement those solutions.

Dr. Wagman’s goal? To help her clients evolve from saying: “I want to” – to – “I’m going to” – to– “I’m doing it!”

About Dr. Jan Wagman, Ph.D., MFT

After graduating from UCLA with a degree in Political Science, then earning several teaching credentials, Dr. Wagman spent the next 10 years as an Educational Therapist. Her clients, children with emotional problems, ranged in ages from 5-19. Many were juvenile offenders and others unable to adjust to life in public school

Spurred-on by her desire to do as much as possible to help children, Dr. Wagman pursued her M.A. in Psychology and Ph.D.

Once in private practice, Dr. Wagman’s clientele expanded from children to their parents, as well as individuals.

Dr. Wagman's main focus is on children and how they get embroiled in situations where they don't have a voice, such as divorce related issues, educational problems, social inadequacies, family dynamics; many times Dr Wagman will end up in court as their advocate or as an expert witness.

Dr. Jan Wagman at: 760-479-2420
Psychotherapy - Counseling - Therapist for
Adult, Marriage & Children

A Unique Approach Through Therapeutic Mentoring™
The Common Sense Therapy™

What is a mentor? It’s a wise and loyal teacher. And a therapist is someone who helps people clarify their goals and bring them into being.

As a Therapeutic Mentor Dr. Wagman will

• Assist you in facing the discomfort of breaking old patterns.
• Help you to shore-up your strengths so you can gain the courage to withstand the anxiety that accompanies stepping in new directions.
• Introduce a common sense dialogue into your life where you’ll learn to ask yourself different kinds of questions that, as a child, you weren’t supposed to ask.
• Guide you in learning how to use these questions to assess your life more rationally and less emotionally. So that rather than living by impulse, you use reason and clear thinking.

Once you learn how to bring this logical and rational perspective to each situation that involves decision-making, you will see that there are many more options and thus, choices, available. This common sense therapeutic approach can help you focus-in quickly on the root of the problem. It will then allow you to establish a plan of action. You will learn how to use the tools that are necessary to realize your goals – tools that that will help you overcome emotional inertia and create positive movement.

If you or someone you know is:

• Seems stuck in old comfortable unhealthy relationships
• Has a child who seems angry, lost, lonely
• Suffers from on-going depression
• Has anxiety that prevents them from being social and active
• Has suffered a recent loss in their life
  

please call
Dr. Jan Wagman at: 760-479-2420
Psychotherapy - Counseling For
Children, Families & Adults.