SERVICES
Welcome to Frederick Psychological Services. Below is a list of services we offer.
Individual Therapy
Our staff recognizes the importance of matching his or her therapeutic style to the particular needs of each client. Our clinicians work collaboratively with clients to identify areas of concern, develop appropriate goals, and implement treatment plans and strategies effectively. By combining extensive experience and creative techniques, our psychologists offer highly individualized therapy and counseling services to address various emotional issues, daily stressors, and life goals.We offer a comfortable and supportive atmosphere for our clients, so they can achieve the personal growth they’re striving for.
Couples Therapy
Admitting there may be a problem in your relationship can be hard and facing those problems with a partner can be even harder. Whether issues revolve around mistrust, increased arguing, poor communication, holding back feelings or secrets, bad patterns, diminished emotional and/or physical intimacy, we work with couples by establishing a forum in which both parties are free to express their vulnerability.
Behavioral Challenges
Many people have symptoms of ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder or other mental health conditions that impact behavior. These conditions are often associated with work or academic performance problems, family and relationship struggles, emotional dysregulation, and mental and physical health issues. And they can be just plain frustrating. Behavior therapy includes assignments to achieve measurable goals.
Parent Guidance
As anyone who is a parent will tell you, there is no rule book on how to raise children, especially children with particular social, emotional, and/or academic needs. At Frederick Psychological Services, we aim to provide guidance to parents regarding a wide variety of challenges regardless of the family circumstances.
Peak Performance
This is a state in which a person performs to the maximum of their ability, characterized by subjective feelings of confidence, effortlessness and total concentration on a task. Our practice works with athletes, entrepreneurs, test-takers, and executives on their mental skills and overall well-being.
Biofeedback and Neurofeedback
Biofeedback and Neurofeedback are non-invasive processes that help you and your clinician better understand how stress, emotions that are difficult to manage, and situational factors impact your body and mind, respectively. These changes are measured via sensors and are displayed on a computer monitor that both you and your clinician can see. It provides immediate feedback regarding the level of physical and mental reactivity (such as your heart rate or muscle tension) to stress. Learning to be aware of and to manage these reactions can help you to improve your health and resilience to stress.
Biofeedback actively monitors your body’s responses to different situations and allows you to make helpful changes with immediate feedback about what is going on inside your body. Biofeedback involves teaching mindfulness-based techniques, relaxation exercises for combating stress, and how to consciously influence automatic reactions like your breathing and heart rate. People often find that gaining some measure of control of their physiology is empowering and contributes to feelings of health and overall improved wellness. By learning biofeedback strategies, you can learn how to:
- Lower your blood pressure
- Improve GI symptoms
- Increase your energy level
- Improve your quality of sleep
- Manage chronic pain conditions
- Manage anxiety and depression
- Face phobias
- Dampen the impact of migraine and tension headaches
- Address factors contributing to neck and back pain
- Loosen jaw pain (TMJ) and muscle tension
- Increase peak performance in life activities and sports
Neurofeedback is direct training of brain function, by which the brain learns to function more efficiently. We observe the brain in action from moment to moment. We show that information back to the person. And we reward the brain for changing its own activity to more appropriate patterns. This is a gradual learning process. It applies to any aspect of brain function that we can measure. Neurofeedback is also called EEG Biofeedback, because it is based on electrical brain activity, the electroencephalogram, or EEG. Neurofeedback is training in self-regulation. It is simply biofeedback applied to the brain directly. Self-regulation is a necessary part of good brain function. Self-regulation training allows the system (the central nervous system) to function better. Neurofeedback addresses problems of brain dysregulation. These include:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Attention deficits
- Behavior disorders
- Various sleep disorders
- Headaches and migraines
- PMS and emotional disturbances
- Seizures
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Cerebral palsy