Chronic Pain Therapists in 68132
Ready to feel more peaceful, hopeful and happy? Life can be overwhelming at times. At Blue Sky Integrative Health, together we can find a personal, nurturing, approach that is backed by research. We can overcome these issues with an integrative, holistic, and humanistic approach. Ready to live your most passionate, purposeful life? Is emotional or physical pain holding you back? Your own hero's journey is awaiting and together we can help you along that path to achieve your dreams. The first step is often the most difficult, and that is to reach out for the help that you deserve. Phone and live video sessions available.
Ready to feel more peaceful, hopeful and happy? Life can be overwhelming at times. At Blue Sky Integrative Health, together we can find a personal, nurturing, approach that is backed by research. We can overcome these issues with an integrative, holistic, and humanistic approach. Ready to live your most passionate, purposeful life? Is emotional or physical pain holding you back? Your own hero's journey is awaiting and together we can help you along that path to achieve your dreams. The first step is often the most difficult, and that is to reach out for the help that you deserve. Phone and live video sessions available.
I work with clients struggling with a variety of issues, including Anxiety/Panic, ADHD, Depression, Grief, Life Transitions, Chronic Pain, Mood Disturbance, Self-Care, and many more. However, I am currently only accepting adults with ADHD or suspected ADHD as new clients. Therapy tends to work best when a client provides as much information as possible, is open and honest, and puts in the effort and work necessary to improve upon their life.
I work with clients struggling with a variety of issues, including Anxiety/Panic, ADHD, Depression, Grief, Life Transitions, Chronic Pain, Mood Disturbance, Self-Care, and many more. However, I am currently only accepting adults with ADHD or suspected ADHD as new clients. Therapy tends to work best when a client provides as much information as possible, is open and honest, and puts in the effort and work necessary to improve upon their life.
I also has expertise in health psychology including improving quality of life with chronic illness, adjustment to new medical diagnoses and cancer treatment/survivorship.
I am a licensed clinical psychologist in Colorado and have practiced in a variety of settings over the last 18 years including outpatient mental health clinics, primary care/pediatric/OBGYN clinics, and most recently at the UCHealth Integrative Medicine clinic. I provide individual therapy to adults and adolescents and take an integrative approach utilizing evidence based treatments. I also have authorization to provide telehealth in 42 states (see website for detailed listing).
I also has expertise in health psychology including improving quality of life with chronic illness, adjustment to new medical diagnoses and cancer treatment/survivorship.
I am a licensed clinical psychologist in Colorado and have practiced in a variety of settings over the last 18 years including outpatient mental health clinics, primary care/pediatric/OBGYN clinics, and most recently at the UCHealth Integrative Medicine clinic. I provide individual therapy to adults and adolescents and take an integrative approach utilizing evidence based treatments. I also have authorization to provide telehealth in 42 states (see website for detailed listing).
My experience with clients has proven that with the right tools we can go beyond symptoms of depression, anxiety, or pain… beyond your ability to just tolerate life… to a place of optimal experience.
Feeling anxious or depressed? Are you losing sleep or struggling to focus? Challenged in your most important relationships? You can learn to navigate these, find relief, and experience life from an optimal state. Gain self-awareness and learn to alleviate anxiety and depression while navigating your thoughts, feelings and behaviors with tool and methods that work. Together we identify your personal strengths and develop strategies so you can live life the way you choose.
My experience with clients has proven that with the right tools we can go beyond symptoms of depression, anxiety, or pain… beyond your ability to just tolerate life… to a place of optimal experience.
Feeling anxious or depressed? Are you losing sleep or struggling to focus? Challenged in your most important relationships? You can learn to navigate these, find relief, and experience life from an optimal state. Gain self-awareness and learn to alleviate anxiety and depression while navigating your thoughts, feelings and behaviors with tool and methods that work. Together we identify your personal strengths and develop strategies so you can live life the way you choose.
Mark D. Ziegenbein
Marriage & Family Therapist, LIMHP, LMHP, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Omaha, NE 68132 (Online Only)
I now only work online through Skype. I have worked with a variety of issues over my 30 years in my profession. I have been an Adjunct Instructor in the UN-O Graduate Counseling Department, Consultant to area psychiatric programs, Director of Outpatient programs, and a presenter to a wide range of businesses as well as my outpatient practice. I like the diversity of my practice in terms of diagnostic features rather than a particular specialty. My many years of practice have allowed me to work with such a wide range of circumstances and issues.
I now only work online through Skype. I have worked with a variety of issues over my 30 years in my profession. I have been an Adjunct Instructor in the UN-O Graduate Counseling Department, Consultant to area psychiatric programs, Director of Outpatient programs, and a presenter to a wide range of businesses as well as my outpatient practice. I like the diversity of my practice in terms of diagnostic features rather than a particular specialty. My many years of practice have allowed me to work with such a wide range of circumstances and issues.
Finding the right therapist is perhaps the most important part of the therapy process. You want someone you can feel comfortable sharing your thoughts and feelings without judgment. You want to know that your therapist has your best interests in mind always, and sees things objectively. You want someone who has advanced training, experience, skill and offers sound encouragement. You want someone who would practice what is recommended and feels called to walk along side you during some of life's most difficult moments. If this is where you are beginning, consider starting here.
Finding the right therapist is perhaps the most important part of the therapy process. You want someone you can feel comfortable sharing your thoughts and feelings without judgment. You want to know that your therapist has your best interests in mind always, and sees things objectively. You want someone who has advanced training, experience, skill and offers sound encouragement. You want someone who would practice what is recommended and feels called to walk along side you during some of life's most difficult moments. If this is where you are beginning, consider starting here.
Sorting through hundreds of therapist profiles when you are already struggling sucks. "Let me just put my anxiety down while I scroll through the headshots of folks I am going to have to cold-call before we even get to talk about how I worry and overthink everything." "I know my depression makes it hard for me to get out of bed, but how about I narrow down a bunch of options and make a really big decision?" "I have a history of awful relationships, attachment injuries. PTSD, or C-PTSD-but by all means let me try to pick someone out that I am going to need to be really vulnerable with." I get that this process can be weird and hard.
Sorting through hundreds of therapist profiles when you are already struggling sucks. "Let me just put my anxiety down while I scroll through the headshots of folks I am going to have to cold-call before we even get to talk about how I worry and overthink everything." "I know my depression makes it hard for me to get out of bed, but how about I narrow down a bunch of options and make a really big decision?" "I have a history of awful relationships, attachment injuries. PTSD, or C-PTSD-but by all means let me try to pick someone out that I am going to need to be really vulnerable with." I get that this process can be weird and hard.
Molly Hefner
Independent Mental Health Practitioner , MS, LIMHP, NCC
Verified Verified
Omaha, NE 68132
Hey, you made it! Be proud of yourself for taking this step to being a different you. I'd be honored to join in as you navigate through life’s challenges. We can challenge together troubling thought patterns that vex you; anxiety that keeps you up at night, or coping skills that just aren't cutting it. Let’s process the loss you never got to face, trauma that keeps popping up, or talk about that break up that really messed you up last year. I can help you work toward gaining momentum, get back on track, or just get to know yourself better. I am here to witness your experience, but even more so I will be here to sit with you in it.
Hey, you made it! Be proud of yourself for taking this step to being a different you. I'd be honored to join in as you navigate through life’s challenges. We can challenge together troubling thought patterns that vex you; anxiety that keeps you up at night, or coping skills that just aren't cutting it. Let’s process the loss you never got to face, trauma that keeps popping up, or talk about that break up that really messed you up last year. I can help you work toward gaining momentum, get back on track, or just get to know yourself better. I am here to witness your experience, but even more so I will be here to sit with you in it.
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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.