Individual Therapy
While Dr. Baus offers behavioral health treatment addressing an array of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral health concerns, her passion is in treating anxiety disorders.
Anxiety is one of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we experience in our lives. Anxiety can be paralyzing. The 'what ifs' can interfere with our everyday functioning, our goals, and our relationships.
Even though we can often rationalize our anxious thoughts, the overwhelming apprehension takes over and prohibits us from doing the things we want to do.
Most people cope with their anxiety by avoiding situations and experiences that make them anxious. Unfortunately, avoidance only feeds the anxiety. In therapy, we will work to gain perspective of your fears and develop the cognitive and behavioral skills you need to build resiliency, recover motivation, and gain confidence.
Sport Psychology and Performance Coaching
Sport Performance. Sport psychology services help an athlete reach optimal performance by identifying obstacles of his or her performance, setting personal desired goals, and helping the athlete reach desired mind-body harmony. It is when the systems (sympathetic nervous system) of our body are working in harmony that we perform our best. Optimal performance is achieved with a combination of physical activation, positive emotion, mental readiness, and performance focus.
Most performers work hard at perfecting their physical game but perform inconsistently due to deficiencies in their mental skills. Performance consultation assists with training your mental game. Cognitive behavioral therapy utilizing tools such as biofeedback prove highly effective in helping athletes reprogram the mind and the body to work together to reach maximal performance potential. In some cases, for athletes who are struggling with blocks that keep them from performing 'in the zone' hypnosis may be helpful to identify those blocks and suggest more efficient mind-body harmony.
Student Athlete Mental Performance. The demands on student athletes can be overwhelming; not only do these athletes have to manage everyday academic and interpersonal stressors but they also need to meet the demands of rigorous practice, workout schedules, highly regimented daily schedules, injury, fatigue, and expectations of parents and coaches. In essence, student athletes are expected to be committed to excellence in all areas of their life while looking for ways to gain a competitive advantage. Sport psychology consultation may help an athlete learn the mental skills to consistently achieve optimal performance while balancing the everyday stressors of a student-athlete.
Academic/Parenting/Executive Coaching. Students often seek help with particular concerns that hinder their success. Such concerns may include: poor time management, poor frustration tolerance, disorganization, forgetfulness, procrastination, stress, test anxiety, poor performance routine/habits, lack of self-confidence, performance anxiety, or poor leadership skills.
Business owners, executives, and parents all experience relentless demands on their time, their mental performance, and their bodies. Stress depletes our capacity to perform consistently at the level of these demands. Performance consultation, psychological coaching supporting resiliency and empowerment, can help a person achieve a happy and rewarding work/life balance, as well as improve their performance in each of their roles.
HeartMath® Biofeedback
Biofeedback training enables a person to learn how to change physiological activity in order to improve health and performance. HeartMath® Biofeedback utilizes sensors placed on a finger or an earlobe, which send information about heart rate and heart rhythm to a computer program. By seeing heart rhythms a person can learn to regulate their physiological responses. That is, when a person is under stress (i.e. pain, goal directed, high performance situation, conflict, emotional upset), physiological responses change. For example, heart rate speeds up, muscles tighten, blood pressure rises, and breathing quickens. Using biofeedback a person can see these physiological responses as they happen on the monitor, get immediate feedback and learn to regulate them. Seeing the feedback on the computer screen often gives a person more confidence to apply the techniques in their everyday life.
HeartMath® Institute has conducted research for over 25 years. Over 300 peer-reviewed or independent studies underpin the effectiveness of HeartMath®. Studies conducted with over 11,500 people have proven HeartMath® to be effective in helping people with a wide variety of concerns including:
Health Problems
- cardiac arrhythmia
- chronic fatigue
- chronic pain
- headache
- poor sleep
- fibromyalgia
- weight management
- GI issues
Emotional Concerns
- anxiety
- depression
- panic
- stress management
Academic Concerns
- test anxiety
- learning and overall performance
- classroom behavior
- focus
Work and Sport Performance
- productivity
- goal clarity
- job/sport satisfaction
- communication effectiveness
- illness and injury
- job turnover
- performance anxiety
Psychological and Psychoeducational Testing
Accurate differential diagnosis leads to better care. Often, anxiety looks like ADHD. A learning disorder can look like lack of motivation. Anxiety and depression can be expressed through a medical condition. Comprehensive psychological testing of an individual's cognitive, personality, emotional, and behavioral functioning is the best start to determining academic/career and treatment planning:
- Diagnostic Testing (ADHD Testing, Personality Testing, Mood Disorder, etc.)
- Achievement Testing (assess academic strengths and weaknesses)
- Determine presence of a Specific Learning Disorder
- Direct medical and behavioral treatment planning
- Assist academic/career planning