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Dr. Denise Fleurant, PsyD, MFT
Dr. Denise A. Fleurant, PsyD, MFT is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist working as a private practitioner in the Newport area. Dr. Fleurant holds an M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Chapman University, a Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from American Behavioral Studies Institute in California and a Post-Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychopharmacology from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.
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Relationship Conflicts: Where Did the Love Go?
Health & Wellness
By Dr. Denise Fleurant, PsyD, MFT
Relationships are seldom as simple as we would like.
Freedom from Verbal Abuse
Health & Wellness
By Dr. Denise Fleurant, PsyD, MFT
Verbal abuse is often difficult to recognize. If you feel that you may be the victim of verbal abuse, ask yourself: Does your partner frequently present a positive face to the world but negative behaviors at home?
Creating a Strong, Supportive Family
Health & Wellness
By Dr. Denise Fleurant, PsyD, MFT
One key to an emotionally healthy life is having the backing of a strong, supportive family. A strong family may be as small as two people or as large as a kinship network of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. The size of the family does not matter as much as the feeling of belonging and the sense of sustenance that emerges from living with stable familial support.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Rhode Island
Health & Wellness
By Dr. Denise Fleurant, PsyD, MFT
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a non-invasive treatment for mild, moderate, and severe depression offered at TMS of Rhode Island, a subsidiary of Newport Psychological Services. TMS is particularly helpful for people who have not experienced significant relief from anti-depressant medication or have had difficulty with side effects.
Working on Your Relationship - By Yourself
Health & Wellness
By Dr. Denise Fleurant, PsyD, MFT
Conflicts can be expected to arise in even the strongest of relationships. Two people who attempt to create a relationship always bring their own issues, backgrounds, expectations, personalities, and inner difficulties into the interplay that occurs between them.
Bouncing Back From Hardship
Health & Wellness
By Dr. Denise Fleurant, PsyD, MFT
All of us experience major disruptions at certain points in our lives. In fact, this is an expected and predictable hallmark of the human condition. For some, these hard times come frequently - the impact of the trauma is overwhelming and recovery, if it comes at all, can be painfully slow.
Addictions
Health & Wellness
By Dr. Denise Fleurant, PsyD, MFT
We are all pleasure seekers. There are pleasure centers located in the human brain, which, when activated, are associated with feelings of euphoria. This happens to us every day. Every day we go through naturally occurring periods when we feel comfortable, secure, happy, and fulfilled.
To Forgive
Health & Wellness
By Dr. Denise Fleurant, PsyD, MFT
All of us have been hurt, in one way or another, by someone else. While it is easy to forgive a friend for the slight distress we feel over a phone call that was not returned, it is not so easy to forgive those who have harmed us in a major way.
Where Did the Love Go?
Family & Relationships
By Dr. Denise Fleurant, PsyD, MFT
Relationships are seldom as simple as we 
would like. They bring out our needs, anxieties, and conflicts from people from our pasts -- parents, friends, and former partners. When we enter into a relationship we expect to be loved just for being who we are.
Surviving the Life Crisis
Health & Wellness
By Dr. Denise Fleurant, PsyD, MFT
A life crisis is one of the inevitable features of our lives. Learning how to survive a crisis is a crucial skill, and one that we will probably need more than once throughout our lives. A crisis can occur when things begin to fall apart around us.
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