General Practitioners

• Smoking Cessation

Psychiatrists

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  Dr. Franklin has extensive experience working with couples regarding marriage problems. He provides marriage/couple counseling using a problem solving approach, incorporating both cognitive and behavioral interventions. Common problems include couple communication issues, chronic arguments, child rearing conflicts, step parenting issues, conflicts with extended family, sexual issues, alcohol issues, financial issues, and anger management. Dr. Franklin uses a combination of individual, parent and family counseling interventions with children and adolescents, depending on the age of the children and the type of problem. Typical problems include child and adolescent behavior problems, adolescent life-stage adjustment issues, parent-child conflicts, acting out by ADHD children, parental conflict about discipline, conflict in step families, post-divorce parental conflict, and divorce adjustment issues in children and teens. Dr. Franklin has also provided parenting skills training and parent coaching, assisted in the development of behavioral management plans, provided conflict resolution counseling for parent-child and parent-parent conflicts, and provided therapetic visitation with non-custodial parents and their children to repair damaged parent-child relationships.
• Stress Management
  I have been licensed as a psychologist in New Jersey (#2244) since 1987. Since then, I have offered psychotherapy, individual and couple counseling, stress management, and psychological testing and evaluation services through my private practice, to individuals and families with a wide range of psychological problems and many different traumatic life situations.
• Depression
• Mental Health
  Many juvenile and adult offenders have psychological problems that play a role in the commission of a crime. A criminal act may simply be the result of a lack of compliance with normal social rules, or even psychopathic or sociopathic behavior. However, it is often part of a pattern of psychological acting out, in response to an underlying psychological disorder. Identification and treatment of these underlying psychological problems can reduce the rate of recidivism in many offenders. This issue is especially important for individuals placed on probation, because their offenses are often less severe, and many are first offenders. Providing psychological treatment to adult and juvenile probationers with diagnosed psychological problems that contributed to their criminal behavior, benefits society and the offender. Individuals with poor impulse control, anger management problems, substance abuse, and personality disorders are most likely to act out and commit an act resulting in probation. Additionally, more serious mental health problems that contribute to criminal behavior may require close monitoring by a psychologist. For example, this may include individuals with bipolar disorder, or psychotic disorders, who commit violent offenses because of their disorder. (Note that all individuals with these disorders do not commit crimes.)
• Anxiety