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Individual, couples, and family counseling for children, adolescents and adults

Call 732-873-5570 for an appointment

Trusting your crisis, your child's problems, your marriage or fears of the future to someone new might seem like a big step. However, if you are tired of feeling stuck in anxiety, anger, confusion or sadness, our therapists want to help you start moving forward again.

We have been providing high-quality treatment and assessment in Somerset and Morristown, New Jersey for many years. We have experience with a variety of diagnoses, including ADHD, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, traumatic stress disorders, relationship issues and school problems. We provide individual treatment, couples counseling and family therapy. Our specialty areas include play therapy, crisis assessment, EMDR, LGBTQ clients, supervised therapeutic visits/reunification therapy, custody and forensic assessments, as well as learning evaluations.

Dr. Tammy Dorff and Dr. Linda Tamm co-founded Strides In Psychotherapy in 2007 in order to create a safe, caring environment for children, adolescents, adults, couples and families of all races, religions, ethnicities, and gender and sexual orientations. We are proud to be joined by Dr. Amy Kavanaugh, Dr. Erica Pass and Dr. Elizabeth Smith, all of whom are also truly dedicated therapists. Our Somerset office is handicap accessible.

In order to schedule your first appointment, please contact our office manager, Julie Nelson, at 732-873-5570. She will check your insurance coverage and answer any questions you might have.

For more information on our specialty areas, please click here

We look forward to meeting you and being a part of your journey toward a happier life!

Our Latest Blog

10 Rules We Can Learn From Aging Parents Now
We watch elderly parents make choices we swear we would NEVER do. Yet so many of our aging loved ones make the exact same decisions! Despite being a psychologist for 20 years, I am convinced that if I don’t write these rules down I will too one day forget what I have learned watching mom and dad. Dear future older me,

Rule #1

You are going to fall down and break something, something really important. It is going to be painful and frightening.

It happens to everyone but it is going to feel personal and like you did something stupid that you could have prevented. Trauma thinking tricks you into thinking accidents are problems that can be solved if we were even more cautious and controlled. You are going to start second guessing how you move and then whether to move at all. This is a huge neon sign to not give in to this slippery slope. Remember when mom broke her ankle. She was so debilitated we had to use a shower outside to try to save her dignity. She had to leave her home and be dependent on us. That was so hard. So when my father got… read more