Staff and services are listed here.
For Referral affiliations are listed below under "REFERRAL INFO"
Joseph A Cincotta, LPCMH, NCC, MA
Joe has been a member of the practice for three years. Joe has 25 plus years of experience in the counseling field and has worked the bulk of this time as a counselor at St. Edmond's Academy in Wilmington, DE. Joe is very experienced working with children, teens, young adults, and families. He is very knowledgeable of Wilmington and Southeastern Pa area school districts and private schools. Joe is currently available for appts for children, adolescents, young adults, and groups as they become available in the Fall when we plan to back in the office again. We hope he soon becomes well integrated into the practice.
The Child & Family services include a variety of psychotherapeutic modalities geared towards effective treatment of children and adolescents. Treatment sessions are 45 minutes in length. For Pre-School age children, sessions are geared more towards sleep-related problems and the management of non-compliant behavioral in children in daycare, pre-school, and early elementary grades. Sessions involve significant family members and are 45 minutes in length. Common referral issues include "biting", aggression, inability to sit still, disruptive sleep, children sleeping in parent's beds, toileting issues, social anxiety, and improving ineffective parenting and "discipline" strategies. School age and adolescent referrals typically include but are not limited to: anxiety and panic disorders, depression, oppositional behavior, bereavement, school related issues, social problems, sleep issues, and family problems. Adult referrals include anxiety, depression, work stress, social and family issues.
Psychological Testing (Not currently Offered) includes diagnostics for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorders (ADHD), learning disabilities, and giftedness as well as projective and personality evaluations.
Individual Psychotherapy: Therapy session with only the individual patient and therapist present. The goal is to develop a sense of familiarity, safety, trust, and sharing in a confidential arrangement.
Play Therapy: Therapy session where the child, either alone and observed, or in interaction with the therapist plays a designated game or activity and their play is interpreted by the therapist so that effective treatment can take place.
Family Therapy: Session where any combination of family members and/or the identified patient are present during all or part of the session. This arrangement typically facilitates an increase of information and definition of the problem, resolution of interpersonal conflicts and power struggles as well as development of strategies for conflict resolution, resistances, hierarchies, and alliances.
Marital/Couples Therapy: Session involving both partners in a relationship with the focus on the presenting conflict(s) and resolution, interactive and communication skills.
Psycho-educational Testing: (Not Currently Offered): Comprehensive individual testing comprised of two 3-hour sessions. Testing includes assessment of Intelligence and cognitive functioning, memory and learning skills, attention and concentration skills, visual and auditory processing skills, fine motor and grapho-motor skills, achievement levels in Reading, Spelling, Arithmetic, Composition and Copying/Writing skills, and assessment of social, emotional, and personality functioning.
School Consultation Services: On-site visits to schools to consult with teachers and administrators on the patient's behalf. While typically involving an IEP meeting to help implement accommodations based on ADHD/ psychoeducational testing, it also can involve meetings to accommodate school phobic re-entry to the school setting or behavioral disruptions that need containment.
Hypnosis: Hypnotic techniques geared specifically to the patient's needs. Common applications include stress and anxiety reduction and management; panic attacks; sleep problems, pain management, habit control; concentration and focus improvement. The applicability of Hypnosis can range beyond these typical needs and be used for memory and detail recall in crime cases, athletic performance improvement in focus and concentration, stage-fright, management/remission in diseases such as cancer, GI disorders, headaches, etc. Hypnotherapy is another variation used as a therapy approach where the patient routinely experiences the therapeutic process while under hypnosis.
Home Visits: Can be provided for Spinal Cord injured patients through their Occupational/Rehabilitation Therapist. Generally reimbursed through Disability Insurance including travel and therapy time.
REFERRAL INFO
While referral sources are too numerous to list here, the following affiliations have routinely referred patients to my practice over the years.
ACADEMIC: SALESIANUM HIGH SCHOOL, ST. EDMOND'S ACADEMY, IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY (IHM); ST, MARY MAGDALEN (SMM), ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA; ST JOHN THE BELOVED, PADUA ACADEMY, URSULINE, ST. MARK'S, ARCHMERE, BRANDYWINE, RED CLAY, CHRISTINA, COLONIEL, AND APPOQUINIMINK PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS; FRIENDS, WILMINGTON MONTESSORI, GREEK ODYSSEY CHARTER, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, AND WILMINGTON UNIVERSITY.
MEDICAL: BRANDYWINE PEDIATRICS; DELAWARE PEDIATRICS; KIDS FIRST OF HOCKESSIN; DR. BEANE AND ASSOCIATES; DR.NICHOLAS BIASOTTO, DR JAMES FIERRO, DR PAPA, DR KAREN KELLY, DR NEAL COHN,AND DR ROBERT OLIVIERI.
PSYCHIATRISTS: DR. RICHARD KINGSLEY; DR. PETER ZORACH; DR. CONSTANTINE AZARCON; DR. KATHLYN ROWAN, SERENE MINDS, MID-ATLANTIC AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
SELECTED INSURANCE NETWORKS: Aetna; BC/BS of DE (includes Medicaid), and Cigna Behavioral Health.
MENTAL HEALTH/ MEDICAL HEALTH FACILITIES: AI DUPONT HOSPITAL; CHOP, CHRISTIANA CARE.
