Scope of Practice
Psychological Treatment: I provide psychotherapy to individuals and couples for depression, anxiety, panic disorder, career and marital problems (e.g., communication issues), obsessive-compulsive disorder, mood and personality disorders, impulse control, and psychosomatic and sleep disorders (initiating or staying asleep).
Neuropsychological Diagnosis, Testing, and Evaluation: I treat individuals with central nervous system disorders including depression, anxiety (e.g., panic disorders), attentional and memory impairment, learning disabilities, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, dementia, and other disorders that affect higher cognitive abilities (thinking, reasoning, categorizing, remembering, attending, perceiving, speaking, reading, and writing).
Neuropsychological Services: My services include neuropsychological and educational evaluations and assessments of Children: Attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorders (ADHD); learning disabilities; pervasive developmental disorders (autism, Asperger's syndrome); seizure disorders; and speech-language issues; Adolescents: Conduct and oppositional disorders; substance use and abuse; (ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD), and Adults: Cognitive and intellectual problems including the early detection of dementia and other brain disorders affecting higher cognitive abilities: Multiple sclerosis; epilepsy and seizure disorders; language disorders; mood and psychosomatic disorders; movement disorders (e.g., Parkinson's disease); and stroke and traumatic brain injury.
Neuropsychological and Psychological Treatment: I perform two (2) basic types of psychological interventions:
(1) Psychological treatment of individuals and couples using cognitive and psychoanalytic psychotherapies including couples counseling.
(2) Neurocognitive rehabilitation of patients with intellectual and memory problems such as dementia (e.g., Alzheimer's disease) and other disorders affecting cognitive and emotional functioning. These treatments involve the use of external memory aids, computer and online programs, "homework," and often the participation of other family members.
I practice a holistic approach:
I work holistically and in a multidisciplinary framework with other professionals including primary care physicians for medical issues, psychiatrists for central nervous system medications, nutritionists for dietary advice and weight loss, physiatrists who specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation for pain and back disorders, as well as speech-language therapists, physical therapists (gross-motor abilities), occupational therapists (fine-motor abilities), and other health care professionals (massage, yoga, exercise trainers, and meditation).
