Conditions we treat
Cerebral offers therapy and medication management for nearly 500 conditions. Here are some of our most commonly treated conditions.
ADHD
ADHD, or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, is a behavioral condition that makes focusing on everyday requests and routines challenging.
People with ADHD typically have trouble getting organized, staying focused, making realistic plans, and thinking before acting. They may be fidgety, noisy, and unable to adapt to changing situations.
Addiction/SUDs
Substance abuse is a pattern of compulsive drug and/or alcohol use marked by recurrent social, occupational, legal, or interpersonal adverse consequences, such as repeated absences from work or school, arrests, and marital difficulties.
Anxiety
Anxiety is characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts, and physical changes like increased blood pressure.
People with anxiety disorders usually have recurring intrusive thoughts or concerns. They may avoid certain situations out of worry. They may also have physical symptoms such as sweating, trembling, dizziness, or a rapid heartbeat.
Autism Spectrum
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) refers to a group of disorders that typically begins during the preschool years and is characterized by difficulties communicating and interacting socially, along with rigid and repetitive patterns in behaviors, interests, and activities.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
People with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) tend to be preoccupied with an imagined defect in their physical appearance, or they’re excessively concerned with a slight physical anomaly. They may frequently check for the defect.
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness in which common emotions become intensely and often unpredictably magnified. Individuals with bipolar disorder can quickly swing from extremes of happiness, energy, and clarity to sadness, fatigue, and confusion. These shifts can be so devastating that individuals may consider suicide.
Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is physical pain that continues to occur despite all medical and pharmacological efforts at treatment.
Depression
Depression is extreme sadness or despair that lasts more than days. It interferes with the activities of daily life and can cause physical symptoms such as pain, weight loss or gain, sleeping pattern disruptions, or lack of energy.
People with depression may also experience an inability to concentrate, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt, and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is usually characterized by a pathological disturbance of attitudes and behaviors related to food, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder.
Insomnia
Poor sleep at night can result in problems such as daytime sleepiness, poor decision-making, interference with learning, and accidents.
Panic Attacks
A panic attack is a sudden surge of overwhelming fear that comes without warning and without any obvious reason. It is far more intense than the feeling of being "stressed out" that most people experience. Symptoms of a panic attack include racing heartbeat, difficulty breathing, dizziness, lightheadedness or nausea, trembling, sweating, shaking, choking, chest pains, hot flashes, or sudden chills, tingling in fingers or toes, fear that you're going to go crazy or are about to die.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders involve patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and the self that interfere with long-term functioning of the individual, and are not limited to isolated episodes. There are different categories and types, many of which are treatable.
Phobias
Phobias are a persistent and irrational fear of a specific situation, object, or activity (e.g., heights, dogs, water, blood, driving, flying), which is either endured with heightened distress, or avoided altogether.
PTSD
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may develop in some people after extremely traumatic events, such as combat, a terrorist attack, crime, an accident, or a natural disaster.
People with PTSD may relive the trauma in painful recollections, flashbacks, or recurrent dreams or nightmares; avoid activities or places that recall the traumatic event; or experience physiological arousal, leading to symptoms such as an exaggerated startle response, disturbed sleep, difficulty in concentrating or remembering, and guilt about surviving the trauma when others did not.
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal affective disorder is a type of depression that lasts for a season, typically the winter months, and goes away during the rest of the year. Treatment usually includes Therapy, Light Therapy and Medications.
Suicidal ideation
Suicidal ideation refers to thoughts about or a preoccupation with killing oneself, often as a symptom of a major depressive episode. Most instances of suicidal ideation do not progress to attempted suicide.
Other specialties
A caring professional will help you process the emotions that come up from challenging situations and difficult experiences. Below are scenarios that Cerebral therapists can help you get through.
Therapeutic Approaches
Cerebral therapists are skilled in a range of different approaches*. Our most common types of therapy are described below.
CBT
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on the relationship among thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; targets current problems and symptoms; and focuses on changing patterns that lead to difficulties in functioning. CBT has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, marital problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness. Numerous research studies suggest that CBT leads to significant improvement in functioning and quality of life.
DBT
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) was originally developed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD). Since then, it’s proven to be effective with a wide range of conditions, including self-harm, suicidality, substance abuse, and eating disorders that are often difficult to treat.
DBT is a behavioral treatment that views emotion dysregulation as being the core of BPD and other disorders. Clients learn more adaptive behaviors for processing their emotions as well as new life skills.
EMDR
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to briefly focus on the trauma memory and simultaneously experience bilateral stimulation (usually eye movements.)
*Not all therapists in your state may be trained in all these approaches. You can check a
therapist's bio to learn more about their style of treatment.
Some severe cases will be referred to specialists outside the Cerebral network
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