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If you are considering personal growth counseling to improve the quality of your life,
or to help deal with any stressful condition, consider holistic professional stress
management as part of your healing process. At Professional
Stress Management Services we work together to encourage the healing
capacities of your mind and body.
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Relaxation Response Training
has the ability to help your body cope with and reverse the devastating effects of stress
on your body's immune system functioning. Both in group and 1-on-1 settings, Dr. Flegal has helped hundreds of
individuals learn these effective techniques, many of which were pioneered at
Harvard's Mind/Body Medical Institute. These techniques include:
 | Breathwork |
| Meditation |
| Restorative Yoga |
| Guided Imagery |
| Relaxation Therapy |
| Reiki
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| Cognitive Restructuring
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Cognitive Restructuring Training
helps to identify and improve the automatic (unconscious) thought process to help in
reducing the flood of stressful emotions that come from cognitive distortions
("stinkin' thinkin'"). Dr. Flegal is a dynamic teacher who makes learning these
techniques straightforward and easy.
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Mind/Body Applications
are individualized approaches to using the Stress Management Skills you will learn as they
work best in your particular case. Dr. Flegal has experience using these techniques
successfully with patients who have needed help with:
| Smoking Cessation |
| General Stress |
| Insomnia |
| Fibromyalgia |
| Anger Management |
| Pain Management |
| Recovery from illness, including Heart Disease and Cardiac
Surgery
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Exercise Physiology
is the scientific application of exercise to each individual. Dr. Flegal has worked with
individuals ranging from elite athlete (in the university setting) to those recovering
from heart attack and cardiac by-pass surgery (in the hospital cardiac rehabilitation
setting). Additionally, appropriately applied exercise is a wonderful tool to compliment
your stress management efforts. Let Dr. Flegal help you design an exercise program for you
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Counseling Sessions
- The first session usually lasts between 90
minutes to 2 hours—Follow-up
sessions usually last no more than 90 minutes. These are intensive
skill-building sessions during which clients learn:
| better recognition of their stress and stressors. |
| relaxation skills. |
| cognitive restructuring skills. |
| strategies for applying their new skills in the real world. |
Clients usually begin with 4-5 sessions to have adequate time to learn and practice
skills . . . more sessions are available if desired or needed.
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Holistic Counseling, tailored to your concerns, promotes self-healing and a genuine sense of
aliveness by exploring the opportunities to create the life you really want. In emotional
healing, we explore blockages to your happiness and fulfillment. If you have physical
illness, we find ways to use your mind and emotions to assist you in healing. While this
approach does not promote "mind-over-matter," it does value the powerful roles
of the mind and emotions in healing. Holistic counseling addressing personal growth or
physical health concerns with this definition of health in mind:
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Health is:
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welcoming responsibility for your life. |
| having choices and making decisions. |
| loving ourselves and others, and being loved. |
| healing. |
| an aliveness with love, trust, expectancy and enthusiasm with which we live
our lives. |
| living in relationship with our spirituality. |
| seeking the highest truth. |
| learning to have fun and consciously creating success.
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