Clinical Practice Interests
My interests lie in behavioral medicine, wherein most all of my patients are struggling with a chronic medical condition as our primary focus or as a secondary focus. This includes life transitions and acute or chronic medical conditions. This might include: pre-surgical or procedural preparation, weight loss surgery evaluations and counseling, IBS and related disorders, cancer, procedural anxiety and pain management, childbirth preparation, and when a patient is not responding to proper medical treatment. I also see children (age 12 or older) with medical problems, such as encopresis, enuresis, or procedural anxiety and pain management.
I also see patients with general complaints such as anxiety, panic, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, fear of flying, performance anxiety, social phobia, depression, and coping with life transitions (post-college adjustment, middle-age, retirement-age).
I also provide a variety of consulting services to attorneys and law enforcement. I assist in developing strategy concerning psychological issues, review records, examine parties in a law suit, testify at depositions and in court in personal injury matters. I consult with law enforcement agencies concerning witnesss recall and hypnosis for "cold case" murder investigations. I provide pre-employment and fitness-for-duty evaluation for law enforcement officer candidates.
Office Hours & Appointments
I have regular office hours during the week, evenings, and other times, including Saturdays, by arrangement. While most patients/clients are seen once weekly or every other week for 45 minutes, certain conditions may best be treated with shorter time periods and/or seen more often, such as 25 minutes 2-3 times per week, or some other variation. Services may also be provided, if appropriate, via phone and/or email.
