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I’ve been a client of Brian Alman’s for many years and he has changed my life. Not only is Brian helpful to me, but I have to tell you that it’s a delight to be with him. Frankly, being with Brian is like being entertained and being in a feel-good session, rather than trying to solve a problem

Dr. Brian Alman’s approach to healing is effective and well-balanced. I recommend it.

Brian has such compassion for people. He doesn’t treat you as if he is a superstar. He is just someone who really has absolute compassion for you as a human, keeps in contact with you over the years, and just goes out of his way to make sure you are alright. If you ever need anything, he’s there for you. His skill set is just beyond compare. He works with every type of personality and is able to find people who have been lost and so he can helps bring them back into feeling safe, comforted and able to move forward with their lives.

I would say that, over the years, I’ve certainly referred several hundred patients to Dr. Alman and I’ve been very impressed with his approach. He has been helpful in dealing with psychological symptoms and with biomedical symptoms. What he does has been accomplished in a very small numbers of visits— like 1, 2 or 3.

I came to Dr. Alman for help with out-of-control anxiety, which had spilled over into horrible doubts about my love for my wife. Where were these hateful thoughts and feelings coming from? I was just about crazy with worry and fear. Dr. Alman quickly helped me to become more aware of the pattern of repression in my life, how I had for decades been stuffing my feelings, not only about my wife, but also about my parents. I had wanted to be the perfect son, and to have a perfect marriage, and through force of imagination I had maintained these facades. But when a cancer scare threw me into anxiety attacks, this house of cards came tumbling down, and my fear drove me to reevaluate myself and everyone in my life. Dr. Alman's treatment was powerful and fast. He showed me how to face my real thoughts and feelings, how to accept them (good and bad) as inescapable parts of my life, and how to express (let go) of everything that I had been holding inside all these years. He also helped me become aware of my huge perfectionist inner Critic, which had been controlling me since I was a little boy through guilt and punishment. I learned to accept this part of me too, and to express all this hate, bitterness, and self-criticism. Whew! What we do to ourselves!
I still have a way to go. Overcoming a lifetime of repression doesn't happen overnight. But I can already see that I'm building a new and far better relationship with my wife, one based on real feelings (not fairy tales), on acceptance of myself as an imperfect human being (not a prince charming), and on respect for my wife as a real person (not a fairy princess). Trying to live in a make-believe relationship, using half my energy prop up a false, romantic image of perfection, I was setting myself up for a reality check, and when it came I had no way to cope. But Dr. Alman is showing me the way, and I can see a bright light at the end of the tunnel. The light of reality.