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Karen Crassweller, MD
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7700 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, VA 22043
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Karen Crassweller, MD

Karen Crassweller, MD practices as a Psychiatrist in Falls Church, VA.Karen Crassweller, MD graduated from Georgetown Univ Sch Of Med, Washington Dc 20007.
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Education Georgetown Univ Sch Of Med, Washington Dc 20007
Training Georgetown Univ Hosp, Psychiatry
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7700 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22043
Services Karen Crassweller, MD practices psychiatry at 7700 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22043. Psychiatrists are licensed physicians who specialize in the evaluation, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.

To learn more, or to make an appointment with Karen Crassweller, MD in Falls Church, VA, please call (703) 356-6255 for more information.
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She was prepared for my appointment and remembered the important things. She never canceled an appointment at the last minute. She was always available when I needed her. I didn't often call her to talk (maybe twice over the course of 6 months or so), but she was immediately available both times. Her prices weren't outrageous, but they were a little expensive, for me, anyway. I wished she had been willing to make it more affordable.

Dr. Crassweller was my first therapist. After having more experience with other therapists, I now realize I want/need someone who will challenge me more -- call me on my "stuff." She's a bit too diffident, I still think -- too (for a therapist) inappropriately polite. I often had a sense that she was thinking things she wasn't saying -- often had a sense she was bored. This isn't surprising, and I certainly don't blame her for that -- but I wish she had paid more attention to her boredom, thought more about how her boredom was the natural effect of my stuckness -- mired in an obsessive fantasy that needed more questioning/shaking up.

She made timid, tentative attempts -- the basic same plea to "reality test" over and over again (which mostly just had the effect of making me angry, feeling disbelieved). I think a more useful tack might have been to look for "hooks" in my language about the object of my obsession that would have pointed to underlying needs that were not being met.

Zeroing in on keywords, having me repeat words that were emotionally charged, letting these reveal the need beneath the emotion, which in turn might have uncovered other needs -- these are some techniques I have learned as a "lay" practitioner of reevaluation co-counseling that would have been more helpful than Dr. Crassweller's one-note, deadend approach.
by Amaranta xxx.xxx.105.152
December 27, 2013