Chronic Pain Therapists in Highland, NY
Ellen Strahs Fader
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R
Verified Verified
Highland, NY 12528
Take a moment and imagine what your life might look like if you accomplished the goals you set for yourself. If you feel stuck, immobilized with your career, relationships, or bad habits, you awaken feeling exhausted, depressed and unmotivated, suffer from debilitating anxiety or panic attacks that leave you feeling drained or if you've experienced past traumas that plague today's quality of life, please call me. I am a results-oriented psychotherapist and therapy can alleviate distress and begin a journey of self growth to feel better and create a more fulfilling life. Your first step begins the process.
Take a moment and imagine what your life might look like if you accomplished the goals you set for yourself. If you feel stuck, immobilized with your career, relationships, or bad habits, you awaken feeling exhausted, depressed and unmotivated, suffer from debilitating anxiety or panic attacks that leave you feeling drained or if you've experienced past traumas that plague today's quality of life, please call me. I am a results-oriented psychotherapist and therapy can alleviate distress and begin a journey of self growth to feel better and create a more fulfilling life. Your first step begins the process.
Step Out of Your Story
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Highland, NY 12528
As a holistic psychotherapist and deep soul diver, I view every life as a sacred story that is open to interpretation, especially your own. In many ways, I consider myself a spiritual midwife of sorts, helping you emerge from difficult life transitions with more confidence, clarity, and compassion for yourself and others because, after all, we're only human. I take an intuitive, informed and sometimes playful approach to self discovery that respects each person's unique strengths, gifts, and situation. My clients often tell me they feel very seen and understood, and that my insights are very helpful.
As a holistic psychotherapist and deep soul diver, I view every life as a sacred story that is open to interpretation, especially your own. In many ways, I consider myself a spiritual midwife of sorts, helping you emerge from difficult life transitions with more confidence, clarity, and compassion for yourself and others because, after all, we're only human. I take an intuitive, informed and sometimes playful approach to self discovery that respects each person's unique strengths, gifts, and situation. My clients often tell me they feel very seen and understood, and that my insights are very helpful.
Mikki Meyer
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT, LMHC, CFLE, NCC
Verified Verified
Highland, NY 12528
I treat individuals, couples and families with the perspective of the whole system. Each person has learned beliefs and ideologies from their family of origin and bring those with them when they enter a new relationship. Helping uncover how those beliefs affect their lives is often key to the underpinnings of their problems and being able to decide what works for them is critical to being able to create a strong foundation in their relationships.
I treat individuals, couples and families with the perspective of the whole system. Each person has learned beliefs and ideologies from their family of origin and bring those with them when they enter a new relationship. Helping uncover how those beliefs affect their lives is often key to the underpinnings of their problems and being able to decide what works for them is critical to being able to create a strong foundation in their relationships.
Johanna Korby
Counselor, LMHC, CASAC, SAP, NCC, MAC
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Highland, NY 12528
At Recovery & Wellness Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC, we specialize in substance use and impaired driver services. We serve individuals who are facing legal problems related to DWI, DWAI, DWAI drugs, possession charges, etc., by providing a substance use or impaired driver assessment and follow up. We also help partners and families of those experiencing alcohol or drug problems with codependency, marital and family problems. As Substance Abuse Professionals, we provide assessment, education, and treatment for DOT and other employees who have been referred to a SAP following a positive test for alcohol or other drugs.
At Recovery & Wellness Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC, we specialize in substance use and impaired driver services. We serve individuals who are facing legal problems related to DWI, DWAI, DWAI drugs, possession charges, etc., by providing a substance use or impaired driver assessment and follow up. We also help partners and families of those experiencing alcohol or drug problems with codependency, marital and family problems. As Substance Abuse Professionals, we provide assessment, education, and treatment for DOT and other employees who have been referred to a SAP following a positive test for alcohol or other drugs.
Michelle Miller
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R
Verified Verified
Highland, NY 12528 (Online Only)
My approach is collaborative and compassionate in nature. I will work with you step by step to create and accomplish realistic and attainable goals that match the vision you have for your life. I want to understand where each of my clients are coming from so that I can work to provide well-informed, culturally sensitive care, unique to each client's individual needs. I am experienced in working with trauma, depression, anxiety, panic disorder, addiction, compulsive behaviors, and many other mental health issues.
My approach is collaborative and compassionate in nature. I will work with you step by step to create and accomplish realistic and attainable goals that match the vision you have for your life. I want to understand where each of my clients are coming from so that I can work to provide well-informed, culturally sensitive care, unique to each client's individual needs. I am experienced in working with trauma, depression, anxiety, panic disorder, addiction, compulsive behaviors, and many other mental health issues.
Zelaika Hepworth Clarke
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, PhD, MSW, MEd
Verified Verified
Highland, NY 12528 (Online Only)
I am a non-judgmental listener that can assist you in creating new alternatives for overcoming life's obstacles. I enjoy facilitating liberation, decreasing internalized oppression, disrupting trauma, transforming survivors into thrivers, sparking empowering epiphanies, overcoming challenges, increasing self-awareness, support healing and growth. In addition to being a clinical social worker, I am also a clinical sexologist that specializes in sexual literacy, treating sexual challenges, affirming pleasure and diversity.
I am a non-judgmental listener that can assist you in creating new alternatives for overcoming life's obstacles. I enjoy facilitating liberation, decreasing internalized oppression, disrupting trauma, transforming survivors into thrivers, sparking empowering epiphanies, overcoming challenges, increasing self-awareness, support healing and growth. In addition to being a clinical social worker, I am also a clinical sexologist that specializes in sexual literacy, treating sexual challenges, affirming pleasure and diversity.
The Hudson Valley Center For Neurofeedback
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Highland, NY 12528
The Hudson Valley Center for Neurofeedback is eager to work with clients who are interested in medication free interventions which hold the promise of substantive change. Children and adults benefit from neurofeedback assessment and treatments. We are looking for clients who wish to be actively involved in their treatment and who have not found success with conventional psychotherapy or medication trials. Consultations are available by appointment at no charge.
The Hudson Valley Center for Neurofeedback is eager to work with clients who are interested in medication free interventions which hold the promise of substantive change. Children and adults benefit from neurofeedback assessment and treatments. We are looking for clients who wish to be actively involved in their treatment and who have not found success with conventional psychotherapy or medication trials. Consultations are available by appointment at no charge.
Sharon Hoferer
MA, MHC-LP
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Highland, NY 12528 (Online Only)
Sometimes in life we find ourselves feeling lost or alone on our journey. We each need to know that someone will be there to help us find our way.
Sometimes in life we find ourselves feeling lost or alone on our journey. We each need to know that someone will be there to help us find our way.
Cailin McGlynn
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Highland, NY 12528
Not accepting new clients
I’m glad that you’ve arrived here and are taking steps to prioritize your own self care. You’ve tried to tough it out, muddle through, do your best—and you’re left feeling exhausted, alone, or uncertain. You find yourself falling into a spiral of negative thoughts that can be hard to untangle yourself from, coping with anxiety or panic attacks, or maybe feeling stuck on past painful events, struggling to trust others or to feel comfortable in your own skin. Let’s work together to help you gain a stronger sense of clarity, inner peace, and self worth.
I’m glad that you’ve arrived here and are taking steps to prioritize your own self care. You’ve tried to tough it out, muddle through, do your best—and you’re left feeling exhausted, alone, or uncertain. You find yourself falling into a spiral of negative thoughts that can be hard to untangle yourself from, coping with anxiety or panic attacks, or maybe feeling stuck on past painful events, struggling to trust others or to feel comfortable in your own skin. Let’s work together to help you gain a stronger sense of clarity, inner peace, and self worth.
Michael S Astor
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MA, LCSW
Verified Verified
Highland, NY 12528
Not accepting new clients
As a dynamic therapist bringing over 25 years of experience, I can help you to appreciate who you are today, while helping you to make positive changes. No matter what your inner or outer circumstances, I can help you to be more at ease with them while you are at the same time doing what you can to improve yourself and your situation. We all face challenges in our lives, with our fears, emotions, moods, family, friends, jobs, addictions, aging, body and identity. We wish something to be different but are struggling with making or knowing what to change.
As a dynamic therapist bringing over 25 years of experience, I can help you to appreciate who you are today, while helping you to make positive changes. No matter what your inner or outer circumstances, I can help you to be more at ease with them while you are at the same time doing what you can to improve yourself and your situation. We all face challenges in our lives, with our fears, emotions, moods, family, friends, jobs, addictions, aging, body and identity. We wish something to be different but are struggling with making or knowing what to change.
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Karen Margolin
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R, M Ed
Verified Verified
New Paltz, NY 12561 (Online Only)
My areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, parenting skills, grief work, caring for aging parents and chronic illness.
Therapy can create a safe and supportive space to rebuild resiliency and a sense of balance during these challenging times and beyond. I listen well and bring experience, honesty, and warmth to my work. Along with what’s going on now, we talk about past events and relationships that are part of your story, exploring how they may be making themselves felt in the present. Doing this thoughtfully together can open doors to better relationships with yourself, other people and the world.
My areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, parenting skills, grief work, caring for aging parents and chronic illness.
Therapy can create a safe and supportive space to rebuild resiliency and a sense of balance during these challenging times and beyond. I listen well and bring experience, honesty, and warmth to my work. Along with what’s going on now, we talk about past events and relationships that are part of your story, exploring how they may be making themselves felt in the present. Doing this thoughtfully together can open doors to better relationships with yourself, other people and the world.
Libertas Mind-Ketamine Neurohealth & Infusion Ctr
DO
Verified Verified
New Paltz, NY 12561
Libertas mind was born from the realization that pain is more than the sum of insults.
At Libertas Mind Neurohealth and Infusion center, we understand the profound toll chronic pain has on mood, and mental health. Created by interventional pain specialist, Dr.Jason Steindler DO, to address the psychological aspect of sufffering, Libertas mind offers therapies to enhance your recovery inlcuding ketamine assisted psychotherapy, ketamine, Spravato and stellate ganglion blocks.
Libertas mind was born from the realization that pain is more than the sum of insults.
At Libertas Mind Neurohealth and Infusion center, we understand the profound toll chronic pain has on mood, and mental health. Created by interventional pain specialist, Dr.Jason Steindler DO, to address the psychological aspect of sufffering, Libertas mind offers therapies to enhance your recovery inlcuding ketamine assisted psychotherapy, ketamine, Spravato and stellate ganglion blocks.
Taylor Gengo
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
New Paltz, NY 12561 (Online Only)
I work with clients who know they need to make a change, but are not sure where to begin. My ideal clients desire to improve their personal and professional lives, but need help with navigating change, coping with grief and loss, building healthy relationships, creating balance, and regaining control of their own lives. It's not always so simple. Some of our problems arise from patterns of behavior stemming from past experiences that we may have forgotten, but our nervous systems have not. Our bodies hold on to pain, but also harness the power to heal. I work with people who are ready to explore and harness that power.
I work with clients who know they need to make a change, but are not sure where to begin. My ideal clients desire to improve their personal and professional lives, but need help with navigating change, coping with grief and loss, building healthy relationships, creating balance, and regaining control of their own lives. It's not always so simple. Some of our problems arise from patterns of behavior stemming from past experiences that we may have forgotten, but our nervous systems have not. Our bodies hold on to pain, but also harness the power to heal. I work with people who are ready to explore and harness that power.
Valerie Linet
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
New Paltz, NY 12561
With 20 years in the field, I specialize in relational issues, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, sexual assault, illness, and grief/loss.
I offer an integrative approach to growth and healing using traditional talk therapy and body-centered modalities. My work honors the wholeness of each person and their innate power to heal themselves. I strive to create a safe and courageous environment where the qualities of curiosity, acceptance, and compassion are present. I appreciate that race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and other identities impact our life experience. I am attentive to social traumas, and support clients in healing such wounds to live more freely. I know first-hand, as a client myself, how transformative a collaborative therapeutic relationship can be
With 20 years in the field, I specialize in relational issues, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, sexual assault, illness, and grief/loss.
I offer an integrative approach to growth and healing using traditional talk therapy and body-centered modalities. My work honors the wholeness of each person and their innate power to heal themselves. I strive to create a safe and courageous environment where the qualities of curiosity, acceptance, and compassion are present. I appreciate that race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and other identities impact our life experience. I am attentive to social traumas, and support clients in healing such wounds to live more freely. I know first-hand, as a client myself, how transformative a collaborative therapeutic relationship can be
Moving Mountains Occupational Therapy, PC
Occupational Therapist, MS, OTR/L
Verified Verified
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
If you are facing stress, life transitions, or pain and seek support and strategies to help with participation in daily routines, physical and mental well-being, coping skills, relationships with others, and overall growth, we can help you. We love to help those with disabilities or have a family member with a disability. We also would love to help other healthcare workers, first responders, and caretakers/DSP's to support their mental health, routines, prevent burn out in their professional, and physical well-being. We want everyone seeking support find what they love to do or help them get back to doing what they love.
If you are facing stress, life transitions, or pain and seek support and strategies to help with participation in daily routines, physical and mental well-being, coping skills, relationships with others, and overall growth, we can help you. We love to help those with disabilities or have a family member with a disability. We also would love to help other healthcare workers, first responders, and caretakers/DSP's to support their mental health, routines, prevent burn out in their professional, and physical well-being. We want everyone seeking support find what they love to do or help them get back to doing what they love.
Michelle Lovett
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, E-RYT
Verified Verified
New Paltz, NY 12561 (Online Only)
I assist people who are on spiritual journeys and also those with Chronic Pain, PTSD, anxiety and depression.
With every moment and each breath there is potential to discover something new and heal something old. It is my deep commitment to experience the newness of each moment, and to guide others in opening to the unknown. Learn to identify and detach from old thought patterns and belief systems. Begin to release emotional pain using your wisdom, your body and your connection to divine energy. Through psychotherapy, meditation, movement, breath-work and other creative practices you can journey through your past and into your presence to discover the place where your expression in this world most authentically represents the whole of you.
I assist people who are on spiritual journeys and also those with Chronic Pain, PTSD, anxiety and depression.
With every moment and each breath there is potential to discover something new and heal something old. It is my deep commitment to experience the newness of each moment, and to guide others in opening to the unknown. Learn to identify and detach from old thought patterns and belief systems. Begin to release emotional pain using your wisdom, your body and your connection to divine energy. Through psychotherapy, meditation, movement, breath-work and other creative practices you can journey through your past and into your presence to discover the place where your expression in this world most authentically represents the whole of you.
Claudia Forest
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MA, TRE
Verified Verified
New Paltz, NY 12561
Getting support is more important than ever. I help clients adjust to change, including loss, overcome difficulties with relationships of all kinds, address attachment issues, PTSD, and anxiety. I work collaboratively—a strong connection between therapist and client is the foundation of good therapy. Listening deeply to clients, I draw on 40 years as a somatic practitioner (incl. 10 years as a massage therapist) and use intuition, empathy, compassion, and humor to help guide the process. I integrate proven and effective mind-body techniques to alleviate chronic stress and pain and achieve wellness through life-style changes.
Getting support is more important than ever. I help clients adjust to change, including loss, overcome difficulties with relationships of all kinds, address attachment issues, PTSD, and anxiety. I work collaboratively—a strong connection between therapist and client is the foundation of good therapy. Listening deeply to clients, I draw on 40 years as a somatic practitioner (incl. 10 years as a massage therapist) and use intuition, empathy, compassion, and humor to help guide the process. I integrate proven and effective mind-body techniques to alleviate chronic stress and pain and achieve wellness through life-style changes.
Indira Darst
RN
Verified Verified
New Paltz, NY 12561
Are you struggling in your relationship, marriage, or job? There are times in life when we need extra help because we can't see clearly what to do or how our patterns are contributing to our pain. I do transformative work with people in a nurturing environment. We start with the "problem" that is present in your life now and let it guide us to the deeper issues that cause it. The resulting resolution liberates you energetically in your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies creating greater harmony in your life.
Are you struggling in your relationship, marriage, or job? There are times in life when we need extra help because we can't see clearly what to do or how our patterns are contributing to our pain. I do transformative work with people in a nurturing environment. We start with the "problem" that is present in your life now and let it guide us to the deeper issues that cause it. The resulting resolution liberates you energetically in your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies creating greater harmony in your life.
Amy Jacobson
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
New Paltz, NY 12561
Have you ever been in a therapy session where the therapist sits quietly, listens attentively, nods politely an when you leave you're wondering what you got out of the session. You will find me to be highly engaged in your session offering ongoing feedback and dialog as well as positive responses and support to your therapy process. I offer an integrative strength based approach to develop the tools you need to find inner peace and calm in this stressful world we share. I specialize in the areas of anxiety, depression, PTSD, living with chronic illness attachment issues and supporting college students cope with stress and anxieties.
Have you ever been in a therapy session where the therapist sits quietly, listens attentively, nods politely an when you leave you're wondering what you got out of the session. You will find me to be highly engaged in your session offering ongoing feedback and dialog as well as positive responses and support to your therapy process. I offer an integrative strength based approach to develop the tools you need to find inner peace and calm in this stressful world we share. I specialize in the areas of anxiety, depression, PTSD, living with chronic illness attachment issues and supporting college students cope with stress and anxieties.
Rousz DeLuca
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW, MFA
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
New Paltz, NY 12561 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
Self-compassion is a great buzzword, but it's easier said than done. Sometimes you have to avoid or fight feelings and parts of yourself. Maybe you feel overwhelmed, worn out or conflicted. Maybe you are not satisfied with your core relationships. This could be because parts of you are stuck in past experiences and those parts are using the tools they have (like avoidance, self-criticism, anxiety...) to protect you from more pain, even though these tools don't always serve you now. Together, we can welcome and get to know each part of you slowly and safely, and introduce new tools for coping and making change.
Self-compassion is a great buzzword, but it's easier said than done. Sometimes you have to avoid or fight feelings and parts of yourself. Maybe you feel overwhelmed, worn out or conflicted. Maybe you are not satisfied with your core relationships. This could be because parts of you are stuck in past experiences and those parts are using the tools they have (like avoidance, self-criticism, anxiety...) to protect you from more pain, even though these tools don't always serve you now. Together, we can welcome and get to know each part of you slowly and safely, and introduce new tools for coping and making change.
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Chronic Pain Therapists
How does chronic pain therapy work?
Engaging with a psychotherapist to help treat chronic pain does not mean that one’s pain is all in their head. Therapy for chronic-pain patients has been shown to benefit both the mind and the body, targeting physical symptoms and increasing daily functioning. In other words, for many, addressing their emotional health through therapy affects their physical health. A therapist can help a client challenge unhelpful thoughts about pain and develop new ways to respond to it, such as distraction or calming breathing techniques. Studies have found that therapy can be as effective as surgery for certain cases of chronic pain and many doctors recommend trying psychotherapy in advance of considering invasive surgery.
What are the most effective treatment options for chronic pain?
Stress, anxiety, depression, catastrophizing, ruminating, lack of activity, and social withdrawal all make chronic pain worse. Addressing these issues, research shows, can help people gain control over their pain symptoms. Therapeutic approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, biofeedback, and mindfulness-based stress reduction, along with greater pain-management education, have been found to help people reduce fear and disability.
Are there new treatments for chronic pain?
Many cases of chronic pain, particularly those involving back pain, remain medically unexplained. But there is evidence that changes in the brain or nervous system are caused by previous physical ailments such as tissue damage; in such cases, the brain may continue to send out pain signals despite the physical cause having healed. To aid patients under these circumstances, a recently developed treatment known as pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) is designed to help the brain “unlearn” this response. A PRT practitioner helps individuals to reduce the “threat value” of their ongoing pain signals until they can reappraise them as less threatening and fear-inducing. They also help an individual to develop new emotional regulation skills.
How long does therapy for chronic pain take?
There is no set timeline for recovery from chronic pain, especially as there may be a range of physical and psychological causes for any individual’s discomfort, but most patients should expect to see a therapist for a number of weeks or months, typically spanning at least 12 sessions. Studies of pain reprocessing therapy found that many individuals’ experience of pain lessened in eight sessions over four weeks.