What Max works with
What Max works with.
- AddictionMax Bird-Ridnell works with addiction from two sides: as Clinical Director of an intensive outpatient addiction program, and as a therapist who practices Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) in person in Los Angeles and via Zoom.
- AnxietyAnxiety is the first word on Max Bird-Ridnell’s list of difficulties that keep returning.
- DepressionDepression sits on Max Bird-Ridnell’s list of difficulties that keep returning, next to anxiety and addiction.
- How ISTDP worksIntensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, or ISTDP, is less widely known than the therapies most people have tried.
- Relationships and intimacy“In relationships” is the first place Max Bird-Ridnell says the same difficulties may keep returning, and problems with intimacy are on the same list.
- Self-sabotageSelf-sabotage is on Max Bird-Ridnell’s list of difficulties that keep returning, along with the habits people find hard to change.