Our treatments and services

At The Healing Center, Dr. Greenfield offers a variety of treatments and services. Many of these treatments are integrated and are offered in a seamless manner as part of your treatment experience. We offer a full range of more traditional psychological and psychiatric services that specifically focus on mental, emotional and behavioral problems, but we do so from a more integrated and humanistic perspective. Mind-body-spirit are always seen as one integrated whole.

Some treatment or procedures are very specific and are focused on one area of concern, problem, or diagnosis, while others may be provided to enhance your overall sense of happiness and well-being. It has been our experience that balance in life and healthy emotions can only lead to healthier physical functioning.

 

Our psychotherapeutic and counseling services can help to:

• Improve intimacy in marriages and relationships with fiends and family
• Address troubling addictions, e.g. drugs, alcohol, gambling, Internet, and sex
• Foster more satisfying intimate relationships & sexual satisfaction
• Reduce symptoms from trauma, abuse & anxiety
• Overcome Internet and computer addictions
• Manage sexual compulsions and problems
• Improve mood & relieve depression
• Improve communications at home and at work or school
• Develop new and more effective parenting strategies
• Decrease anxiety and stress,
• Alleviate phobia and fears

Some of the treatments and services we offer include:

• Counseling and psychotherapy
• Group therapy (Men's Group)
• Energy medicine / Energy psychology
• Marriage-relationship and intimacy development based on IMAGO therapy
• EMDR a specialized and rapid treatment for trauma and anxiety
• Men's’ personal growth and therapy groups for Addictions
• workshops and training on Internet Addiction
• hypnosis

Not all procedures and techniques are utilized in every treatment visit . Most typically when coming in for general counseling or psychotherapy, an integration of a variety of these procedures may be utilized as needed and indicated.

What to expect on an Initial Consultation visit with Dr. Greenfield at the Healing Center

Depending on your reason for coming in for a visit, most typically you would be meeting with Dr. Greenfield. Occasionally Dr. Greenfield will enlist assistance from other doctors or therapist to assist in treatment. . I will take your background and history, and most importantly LISTEN to what your are feeling, what you NEED, and to help formulate what might be most helpful . We will assess your goals together and your desires outcome for your treatment. Personal, medical and psychological history will be taken to determine some of the potential relevant factors in your situation. We will at times ask you to bring in your family member or spouse/partner if it seems that this will help achieve your goals.

Most importantly, we will attempt to determine how your current problem or situation is integrated into your process towards growth and healing. Obviously, the treatment plan will be developed from weaving together your information from the past as well as the present and future desires and possibilities. The goal of The Healing Center is not to focus solely on the past, but to integrate a solution-focused approach to helping you achieve a healthier and happier life NOW.

Careful attention will be taken to previous attempts or previous therapies or healing procedures that you have utilized and to see what worked and what did not. This information is gathered on a one-to-one basis where notes may be taken in order to keep track of some of the problems or concerns. In addition I may ask to speak with other doctors involved in your care or previous doctors or therapist. If there are any procedures that you have a specific interest or desire to experience, this would be the time to speak about them so that we can make sure that you achieve the experience that you desire. In addition, having clear goals for what you would like to achieve/feel will help construct your therapeutic experience.

Ultimately the outcome is to have a positive impact on your overall feeling of well-being, health, satisfaction, and functioning and to preferably experience a greater understanding and integration of the meaning of how you came to be where you are, and where you’d like your life to proceed.

Psychotherapy..

Psychotherapy and counseling are not easily described in general statements. Their meaning varies depending on the personalities of the doctor or therapist and patient, and the particular difficulties you are experiencing as well as your needs and desires for growth and change.

Symptom relief may be briefer and require fewer sessions than personal growth, spiritual development, or working on changing long standing personality characteristics. There are many different methods that we may employ and will always discuss those with you as we embark on this healing process with you. Always feel free to ask questions or for more information if your wish.

Psychotherapy often has many benefits and some risks. Since therapy can involve discussing unpleasant aspects of your life, you may experience some uncomfortable feelings like sadness, guilt, anger, frustration, loneliness, and helplessness. These feeling and emotions are sometimes part of the healing process. However, psychotherapy has also been shown to have many benefits. And often leads to more satisfying relationships, increase mood and positive outlook, solutions to specific problems, significant reductions in feelings of stress, improved intimacy with you and others, control over unwanted addictions and compulsions, and reductions in anxiety.

Our first few sessions will involve an evaluation of your needs and desired goals. By the end of the evaluation, we will be able to offer you some first impressions of what our work might include and a potential treatment plan to follow, if you decide to continue with therapy. You should evaluate this information along with your own opinions of whether you feel comfortable working with us.

Therapy involves a large commitment of time, money, and energy, so you should be very careful about the therapist you select. If you have questions about our procedures, we should discuss them whenever they arise. If your doubts persist, we will be happy to help you set up a meeting with another mental health professional for a second opinion. You have a right to receive ethical, comprehensive, and professional mental health care in a reasonable and customary manner. If you feel you need to speak with someone else about your concerns, you may contact Dr. David Greenfield at THC who will listen to your concerns and determine the best way to address them.

Healing addictions.

The reality of addictive and compulsive behaviors in our lives is all too obvious. Many, if not all of us, suffer or suffered from some form of addictive or compulsive pattern of behavior during our lifetime. The most common and notable forms of addiction include: alcohol, drugs (prescription and illegal), cigarettes, sex, gambling, food, exercise, work shopping computer on the internet. This list by no means exhaustive and there are many things that we can become addicted to. The bottom line is that anything that creates pleasure and alters our mood or consciousness “on demand” can become a compulsive or addictive pattern. When things produce pleasure and minimize pain, they, in a sense, produce numbness and help us avoid issues and discomforts that we experience in our daily lives.

Everybody has these discomforts, and at times, temporary distraction or numbing from dealing with these issues can be quite welcome and even therapeutic. It’s when these patterns become habitual and they create secondary problems in our lives that they become an issue. In other words, they start out as a coping strategy and then become a problem unto themselves because of interference in some aspects of our lives including our health and wellness, family, legal status, financial status, relationships or our jobs. In some ways they curtail our freedom and our ability to create and maintain a healthy lifestyle. We become a victim of our own behavior instead our patterns begin to rule our lives in some form or fashion. Addictions can be difficult to treat. The good news is that many people do recover and heal from addictive patterns. Often this recovery and healing takes a bit of time and effort.

The good news is that if motivated, most people can achieve a freedom of previously addictive compulsive patterns. The treatment process involves three aspects that are necessary in alleviating addictive and compulsive patterns:

• First is the development of prospective of the addictive pattern and cycle. This would include changing or discontinuing the pattern in some form or fashion and altering the rituals and habits that have become linked to performing this pattern.
• Second is developing insight and psychological understanding along with integrating motivation , new awareness of motivation and inner-strength in managing and understanding how this problem came to be and what alternatives there are in moving forward.
• And third is the development of a relapse prevention strategy which zeroes in on developing and identifying potential triggers for relapse or repeating the pattern again.

In addition, this process may involve the utilization of a variety of other techniques and procedures including counseling and psychotherapy, spirituality, intuitive-guidance, channeling, utilizing journal, physical exercise, listening to books, CDs, 12-step group-psychotherapy, developing greater support-systems and networks, and the use of medications at times. The important thing is to look at the addictive pattern of behavior within the total context of one’s life, and to look at how it hampers or limits overall quality of one’s life as well as the specific areas of life that are impacted. In addition, there may be spiritual or other roots to this pattern which can be addressed in the treatment process.