Areas of Practice
Anxiety and Depression
Learning cognitive behavioral strategies to develop helpful thinking patterns, improve your mood, increase your confidence, and prevent anxiety or depression from making decisions for you or manifesting physically.
Learn strategies to conquer health related anxiety, such as a fear of vomiting and school refusal due to symptoms.
Coping with Chronic Illness
Adjusting to and accepting the "new normal" of living with a chronic medical condition, while committing to valued activities in new ways.
Learn tangible coping skills to use in real time to manage high symptom days.
Support for caregivers as they navigate their child's medical care and complex needs.
Medical Adherance
Make real life plans to increase the feasibility of, and commitment to, following your medical providers' recommendations.
Support with testing and procedures (i.e. pill swallowing, bloodwork, imaging, surgery etc.)
Develop developmentally appropriate involvement in care, and support with transition to adult care.
Chronic Pain
Develop strategies to cope with chronic pain such as headaches/migraines, abdominal pain, and muskuloskeltal pain.
Learn cognitive behavioral strategies to desensitize intense pain signals and maintain functioning.
Disorders of Gut Brain Interaction
This includes conditions such as functional abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome, functional dyspepsia, reflux, functional dysphagia, cyclical vomiting syndrome, and rumination syndrome.
Learn how the gut and brain are connected and learn skills to rewire your fight or flight response through cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, relaxation skills, and practice.
Toileting Concerns
Address behavioral, emotional, and social challenges related to toileting that are impacting chronic constipation and encopresis.
Learn about the constipation-withholding cycle, develop behavioral reinforcement plans and parent management strategies, and collaborate with medical providers.
Healthy Functioning
Develop plans to increase your participation in important activities such as school, extra curriculars, and social activities while managing mental health and medical symptoms.
Healthy Habits
Develop and commit to healthy habits such as sleep hygiene, physical activity, balanced nutrition, and self-care.
Tics/Tourettes
Reduce frequency, intensity, interference, and distress related to tics/Tourettes with the use of Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics/Tourettes (CBIT)