Services

• Individual, couples & family therapy
• Psychotherapy groups & support group therapy
• Stress reduction & meditation classes for individuals and groups
• Dance/movement therapy
• Treatment for chronic pain
• Evalution: psychological testing & evaluation, forensic psychological evaluation, child custody evaluation
• Professional training consultation & supervision for mental health professionals
• Consultations to organizations and businesses

Treatment for chronic pain

Frank Schwoeri, Ph.D., and Jane Fox, LCSW, both provide psychological treatment for patients with chronic pain, usually on referral from a patient's physicians.

Chronic pain is a real phenomenon, not 'all in your head.' If your physician refers you to us for treatment for chronic pain, it's because he/she recognizes that chronic pain can often be helped through psychological, non-medication based methods, either as an adjunct to, or instead of pain medication.

There are two ways in which we help people with chronic pain: 1.) by teaching you methods of pain management which use psychological principles such as imagery and self-hypnosis to change the quality of the pain experience and give you a sense of control and 2.) by addressing the psychological, emotional and stress-related factors which can worsen and maintain pain. Such methods include stress reduction training and psychotherapy. Anxiety, stress, and depression are especially important to address because they always make pain worse.

Usually we will use a combination of stress reduction techniques and psychotherapy to help improve your quality of life.

See EMDR: A Tool For Healing.

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