Behavioral Health
Treating the psychological aspects of chronic pain
Woodhaven Wellness offers behavioral health services and strategies to manage your chronic pain, improve your health, and help you be the best version of yourself.
Living with chronic pain is complex. It impacts our mental health and often many other aspects of our lives. In the same way, our mental health can also negatively impact the ways we experience chronic pain. Because we believe that treating the whole person is the most effective way to produce lasting change, we are aligned with other chronic pain centers of excellence offering integrative care.
Our Process
We’re here to support you on every step of your chronic pain journey, equipping you with behavioral health services, strategies, collaboration, and support.
Initial Assessment
We discuss your chronic pain history, needs and challenges, and your goals.
Diagnosis
We identify the basis of your condition(s), document other factors supporting or hindering your wellness journey, and collaborate with your healthcare team.
Mental Wellness Plan
We focus on specific behavioral health services and strategies to address your chronic pain and affiliated challenges. Developing a treatment plan and supporting your personal goals are the keys to helping you live your best life!
Our Services
Individual
Therapy
Chronic pain is influenced by the thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and motivations of the person experiencing it. Providing coping tools and specific strategies to help you understand and dial down your chronic pain will help you better manage its challenges.
Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy
CBT equips people with problem-solving strategies to manage and decrease the challenges associated with chronic pain. By utilizing CBT strategies, you can change your pain experience and improve your overall quality of life.
EMDR
Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an evidence-based therapy that targets the sensory- emotional aspects of chronic pain. EMDR is an effective therapy that can help calm the pain pathways in the brain.
Group
Therapy
A chronic pain support group offers education, coping skills training and social support, and helps people with chronic pain realize they are not alone.
Pain Reduction
Strategies
Numerous evidence-based pain reduction strategies help “down-regulate” or quiet pain signals. Effective strategies include breathing strategies, visualization protocols, biofeedback, and distraction techniques.
Stress
Management
Research has shown stress can increase chronic pain. Learning strategies to manage your stress in healthy ways can positively reduce pain levels.
Psychological
Testing
Data gathered through psychological testing can help highlight strengths, identify specific challenges and areas of need, and clarify diagnosis, all of which support more effective intervention and treatment planning.
Pre-Surgical Behavioral
Health Evaluations
A pre-surgical evaluation is often requested prior to a surgical procedure. This evaluation provides your healthcare team with information regarding your motivations, strengths, and mental readiness for surgery.
Telehealth
Woodhaven Wellness offers convenient telehealth visits so you can access healthcare from the comfort of your own home. If you have a phone or a device with internet access, you have everything you need to get mental health services without leaving home.