What’s Keeping You Up at Night?
The answer to this question will differ from person to person. Yet when asked, many patients will respond with answers that revolve around the same themes:
- Current stressors – COVID-19 has added even more stress to our daily lives.
- Prior wounds – Current events may act as a trigger for past life events and bring back uncomfortable memories.
- Loneliness or feelings of isolation.
- Chronic illness that has been made worse in recent months.
Individuals with chronic pain and illness not only suffer physically — they often suffer emotionally. Emotional pain can range from anger and grief to feeling emotionally numb, to clinical depression.
Our physicians understand that chronic pain and emotional difficulties are often closely intertwined. In diagnosing your pain problem, Kaplan physicians take time to assess not just your physical symptoms and your overall physical health, but also your emotional state, your cognitive functioning, and your situational stress level.
Sometimes the emotional issues become so bound up with a physical disorder that psychotherapy is essential to a patient’s recovery. The Kaplan Medical Team includes Jodi Brayton, a psychotherapist who offers supportive therapy, psychodynamic and cognitive therapy, pain-management therapy, HRV, guided meditation, and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing).
Psychotherapy can help individuals become more aware of their own thought processes, so they can begin changing negative thoughts and more effectively manage stressful life situations, such as family and interpersonal issues, including dealing with difficult colleagues or supervisors at work. Using a pain-management protocol, our providers can help patients learn ways to reduce their perception of pain, including the frequency, intensity or quality of painful sensations. This therapeutic approach strives to help patients both resolve their emotional pain and reduce their perception of their physical pain. After participating in pain-management therapy, patients often find themselves feeling well enough to return to the activities that they enjoy and that give meaning to their lives.
As we try to navigate our lives into a new semblance of normal, stress, illness and mental health shouldn’t be forgotten. One reason to consider seeing a psychotherapist is that speaking to a professional can relieve anxiety, decrease depression, and help you see how to make choices that are more beneficial to your cognitive and emotional health.
We are here for you, and we want to help.
Our goal is to return you to optimal health as soon as possible. To schedule an appointment please call: 703-532-5805
Our Approach to Treatment
At The Kaplan Center, our staff members use a comprehensive and flexible approach that is designed to help each individual person heal themselves. Healing involves the mind, body and spirit. All techniques are tailored to individual needs and designed to help people effectively manage distress, dysregulation and build confidence.
Many patients find the psychotherapy component and its use of biofeedback techniques that involve measuring skin temperature, blood pressure and heart rate simple, fun, and effective.
Modalities that may be used include: Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Psychodynamic psychotherapy, Sensorimotor psychotherapy, mindfulness, HRV biofeedback, Interactive Guided Imagery and Self-Hypnosis. All these techniques help clients connect to their mind’s bodies and emotions.
In particular, EMDR is a therapy that helps heal wounds from disturbing life experiences. It has been extensively researched and proven highly effective at helping people heal from distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression and panic disorders. Since our emotional well-being is tied with our physical (somatic) state.
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Insurance Participation
At the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine, we have chosen to work outside of commercial insurance plans. By doing so, we have realigned our priorities with yours: returning you to optimal health.
Please note: If your insurance policy has out-of-network benefits a portion of our charges may be covered. Before your first visit, talk to your insurance company about your out-of-network benefits and what they include, as every plan is different.
To help our patients file accurate claims for reimbursement, we provide detailed billing forms containing all of the appropriate codes to submit to your insurance plan. For those who would like us to submit the claims on their behalf, we will submit claims for reimbursement electronically to your insurance company for a $10 charge. Some of our practitioners are “Non-Participating providers” with Medicare, but Dr. Kaplan and Dr. Lilienfield have “Opted-out” of Medicare. We are not accepting Medicare Advantage patients. Click here for more FAQ’s, or you can call our office to discuss in detail with a new patient coordinator at 703-532-4892, Option 2.
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