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ATTENTION
PHYSICIANS!
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| Family Practitioners/Internists:
Your patients know you well and are repeat consumers. They
tell you intimate details about their health including sexuality,
depression, anxiety, marital problems, and work stress as it affects
their overall health. I can help reduce your load by being a support
to your patients who would benefit from therapy. Fatigue,
physical illness, heart palpitations, panic attacks and unresolved
trauma can be minimized or alleviated through talking therapy. Furthermore,
alcohol and other addictions can be eliminated to improve medical
conditions. |
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| Gastroenterologists:
Upset stomach, Crohn's Disease, Colitis, Esophageal Reflux, Irritable
Bowel and irritation by alcohol abuse and dependence are all among
common problems you see that can be helped by therapy to reduce
stress. Some of the medical problems that are not stress related
will cause stress. Patients worrying about having accidents
may avoid going out. Their worry creates more anticipatory
anxiety. Therapy to discuss stress-producing problems, along
with biofeedback and relaxation therapy can help improve symptoms
greatly. I am experienced in treating alcoholism, which is
a big underlying culprit to your patient population. |
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| Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation: Chronic pain is very debilitating, as you
know. Depression reduces pain tolerance and chronic pain often
leads to losses that contribute to depression. With relaxation
therapy, talking therapy and biofeedback, I can help your patients
cope better with their pain. Furthermore, I am experienced
in working with patients who have had Fibromyalgia, Polymyocitis,
Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, Cancer, and back
pain and the problems their illness creates in their social lives
as well. |
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| Rheumatologists:
Chronic pain created by diseases such as Lupus, Fibromyalgia,
Rheumatoid and Osteoarthritis, and working through unresolved trauma,
conflict and stress can minimize the impact of these and some of
the other medical conditions you treat. Relaxation therapy,
talking therapy, paced reactivation and stress management are important
factors in treating your patients. Therapy can help your patients
learn to accept limitations and to increase assertiveness to get
support in ways that will greatly help your patients cope better.
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| Urologists:
I treat Erectile Dysfunction, Premature Ejaculation and disorders
of desire in patients. If there is no medical reason for erection
difficulties, the best and most permanent treatment for sexual dysfunction
is psychotherapy. Eliminating the pressures of performance
anxiety, sexual conflict, marital discord that impedes sexual performance
are all things that I do that will help improve the sexual functioning
of patients you treat. I work with both the individual and
the couple in building emotional intimacy, teaching about sexuality
and pleasure while resolving the communication problems that play
out in the bedroom. |
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| Obstetricians/Gynecologists:
See above note in Urologists, too. One out of four women have
been sexually abused in some way. Aside from the problems
you hear about relationships, sexual difficulties, body image, pressures
of parenting, and post-partum depression, you may get patients that
show signs of being traumatized physically and/or sexually.
I treat trauma with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
and with psychotherapy. As a psychologist who works with adult
individuals and couples, I am able to help your patients resolve
many problems. |
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Dr. Laurel A. Sills, Licensed
Clinical Psychologist
5600 W. Maple, Suite B-215, West Bloomfield, Mi. 48322
(248) 788-4230
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