Services
Psychological Evaluations for:
Presurgical procedures
Worker’s compensation
Chronic pain programs (i.e., Functional Restoration Programs)
Individual Therapy for:
Depression
Anxiety
Stress
Chronic Pain
Chronic illness
Life transitions
Communication issues
Acculturation
Cross-cultural issues
Insomnia
Self improvement
Professional growth
Approaches to Treatment
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Your thoughts can serve as precursors to your emotions and powerful motivators for your behavior. CBT aims to identify and challenge problematic thoughts that tend to affect how you respond to stress. In doing so, you can improve your ability to regulate your emotions and develop adequate coping skills that can be used in your everyday life.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
MBSR involves cultivating a different relationship between you and the challenges in your life. Specifically, MBSR helps you access the ability to be non-judgmental, compassionate, patient, present, and aware.
Biofeedback
Our bodies respond to stress by inducing the “fight or flight” response. Biofeedback can be used as a way to help you develop greater awareness of your physiological functioning by using signals from your own body as precursors to emotional and behavioral responses. With biofeedback, you can see how your body responds to stress on a computer screen, which allows you to not only recognize stress earlier on, but also employ appropriate coping mechanisms.