Supportive Counseling
Looking to have another perspective on what you feel is contributing to your distress or compromising your health and wellbeing? Have you gone through several providers and still feel unheard? Maybe the ‘big picture’ is still not clear?
Let NORTH SHORE OSTEOPATHIC introduce you to a new approach to those struggling with psychic pain or distress, somatic presentations and conditions borne through trauma and grief.
Think about it….what really makes up a person and their being? Everything really is interconnected and interrelated - Osteopathic and Oriental Medicine is based on it.
Over time, scientists divided up the body into systems, naming parts and classifying structures - muscle by muscle, nerve by nerve, system by system. As scientists and clinicians became more specialized and precise, something was lost. The big picture - how our organs and body systems are still very much related to each other.
Your brain (and dare we say it soul) has made impressions and memories of what it has experienced over its lifetime. These are real sensations and rooted in what was perceived to be true at one time in the past. Is this reality still true? Is the brain still interpreting an experience the same today? Remember, the brain is just a collection of chemical memories and provides responses and collective reactions to prior experiences. How do you describe your experiences without describing your sensations? Every structure is affected by how you’ve used them over the years, how you currently move through life, AND how you feel about your journey.
Most don’t remember, but when one first learns to walk, s/he does so after several attempts and eventually through what we call ‘controlled falling’ which is the body’s way of compensatory muscle contractions and relaxations and joint involvement so we don’t fall down. The fear of falling develops because we learned that without controls in place, falling hurts us both psychologically and physically.
Think about this other example: rest and nutrition are physiologically required so as to allow our neuroimmune system to optimize, manage our internal resources and develop metabolic pathways in a more efficient way, as well as integrate our day’s activities into memories. If one misses the opportunity to gain (or abstains from accepting) resources such as rest and nutrition, the brain, metabolic and immune systems will be prone to dysfunction.
Without adequate mental and physical support of the body and mind there is no foundation upon which to build a healty and well-balanced lifetime. Another way of thinking about it - without a margin of resources, there is no mission one can successfully undertake.
NORTH SHORE OSTEOPATHIC specialists are here to help you recognize how your brain is trying to fulfill its role in survival as a unique being - AND how physical and psychological presentations are one way that the brain and/or body are trying to gain control back from you. We can help your body learn to walk again and reconstitute itself after the journey you’ve already started. Maybe we can help you prepare better for the journey ahead?
Whether joining any of us for individualized appointments, via co-collaboration with one other specialist, or joining our All-Inclusive Team Based Model of Care, please believe that we will do our best to mindfully help you assess and manage what you present to us.
Know that each of us are here and will integrate our skillsets to help you explore and re-establish the link between the nervous system and its viscera - which has always been connected.
Supportive Health Counseling
Physician and Peer Mentor
$150 / 60 minutes with - Schedule now
Other Options for Healing
Acupuncture - when you are earnestly ready to treat to trauma, substance misuse and psychological distress
$95 / 60 minutesSupportive and Palliative Bodywork
$60 / 30 minutes
$90 / 60 minutesPeer Mentor - for those not sure where they stand on their issues
$70 / 60 minutes