Services
CREATIVE PSYCHOLOGY WITH DR. DUG
Instead of hearing about your day and allowing you to stay stuck, I would rather use our time to help you connect with what is truly important to you and move you toward a life that feels meaningful.
Venting about your day or your current problems may bring some short-term relief, but in the long-run, nothing seems to change.
Although sitting and chatting would certainly be the easier route, let's instead trudge through some muck so that your life shifts for the better.
I provide three types of time-limited services:
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GI Health Psychology is an adjunct treatment (i.e., in addition to medical treatment) for people suffering from different types of gastrointestinal disorders
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Clinical Hypnosis can be a primary or adjunct treatment for a variety of health challenges
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Assessments are conducted using a therapeutic approach so that your questions are answered, but at the same time, you gain a therapeutic benefit from the evaluation.
I look forward to connecting and figuring out a game plan!
GI Health Psychology
Can you imagine being punished every time you take a breath? Even if breathing caused problems, you would continue breathing because misery is better than death! Similar to air, food is necessary for sustaining life and we really don't have the option of not eating. Not many people understand the mental impact that happens when something we require for life becomes a source of suffering.
GI Health Psychology focuses primarily on Disorders of Brain Gut Interaction (DGBIs) and is also effective on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
We use a combination of Clinical Hypnosis and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for a time-limited treatment.
Clinical Hypnotherapy
For many of us, the only exposure we have had to hypnotherapy has been stage hypnosis, either in real-life or on screen. What is depicted is something I would definitely not want to participate in. Who wants to lose all control and will, be made to do things, and not even remember that any of that happened?
If stage hypnosis depicted what actually happens in clinical hypnotherapy, it would look relatively un-entertaining and no one would buy tickets!
Dr. Dug treats a variety of health conditions with hypnotherapy, both in-office and virtually.
Assessments
For many years, I’ve conducted the traditional style of assessment and prided myself on my strengths-based and affirming perspective. In that traditional style of assessment, I would interview the client, administer a variety of tests, consult with your other healthcare providers, and then analyze the data and write up the report. Usually, this would culminate in a 30-60 minute feedback session where I explain the findings to you and we talk about the impact of what you’ve just heard.
That doesn’t sound bad, does it?
No, it doesn’t. However…
Although that traditional model is helpful in answering the big question – What’s going on with me? - it does not take advantage of the potential for a therapeutic and transformative experience in which you play an active part in re-storying your life.