Richard F. Lazur, PsyD

He conducts therapy for adults, teens, and children on an individual, couples, or family basis, providing psychological evaluations for children and adults. Dr. Lazur's practice specializes in helping clients with relationship issues, personal issues, teenage challenges, and parent-child difficulties. He offers both in-person and telemedicine appointments, using a secure video chat platform. With a focus on meaningful change, Dr. Lazur helps clients achieve self-awareness, interrupt useless patterns, and find clarity, reassurance, and belief in themselves. He works with individuals, couples, and families, addressing areas such as couple communication difficulties, child behavioral problems, adjusting to change, coping with transitions, and understanding, managing, and using emotions in healthy ways. Dr. Lazur's approach is based on post-Freudian British Object Relations theories, including the ideas of Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Meltzer, Stan Tatkin, and Hans Stahlsmidt. He is a PACT level 2 trained therapist and has a Certificate in British Object Relations Psychotherapy from the Center for Object Relations in Seattle. Dr. Lazur is a past president of the Alaska Psychological Association and a past-secretary of Division 51 of the American Psychological Association.