Therapists in Central, NM
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Randolph Philip Rountree
Psychologist, MD, PsyD, MP
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Las Cruces, NM 88011 (Online Only)
I provide psychiatric medication management in Colorado and New Mexico and telehealth in other states. Do you want to reduce your anxiety, depression, guilt, anger, trauma, or obsessive behaviors that cause you and those close to you distress? I have doctoral degrees in psychology, medicine, and utilize the procedures to help you achieve the best quality of life. I want you to understand what the issues are and how to best deal with them. This process involves a team effort to help you reduce the emotional distress in your life. I work to increase your strengths so you can take back control of your life.
I provide psychiatric medication management in Colorado and New Mexico and telehealth in other states. Do you want to reduce your anxiety, depression, guilt, anger, trauma, or obsessive behaviors that cause you and those close to you distress? I have doctoral degrees in psychology, medicine, and utilize the procedures to help you achieve the best quality of life. I want you to understand what the issues are and how to best deal with them. This process involves a team effort to help you reduce the emotional distress in your life. I work to increase your strengths so you can take back control of your life.
Our Center has served Las Cruces and the surrounding Communities with quality mental health care for over 28 years. Our staff of medical psychologists, clinical psychologists, counselors, and social workers, offer therapy services including telehealth uniquely designed to foster your mental health in these challenging times.
Our Center has served Las Cruces and the surrounding Communities with quality mental health care for over 28 years. Our staff of medical psychologists, clinical psychologists, counselors, and social workers, offer therapy services including telehealth uniquely designed to foster your mental health in these challenging times.
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.