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Holistic Reviews At CorePsych

by Dr Charles Parker on January 24, 2010 · 5 comments

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Consult Without Travel

Virtual Consult – Heads Up on Two Items
1. Conference Starts Tomorrow Jan 26!
Do consider attending the Holistic Health Virtual Conference, - I look forward to presenting there on Wednesday Jan 27.  I will be very active with feedback at the forum there, and have an excellent slide presentation for you to follow during the program.

We really must stop automatically treating superficial labels in psych, and need to get down to treating real people with evidenced based objectives. Hope you can make it, just hit the Holistic link on the side bar here, – and remember it’s virtual and recorded, you don’t have to be there real time!

2. We Can Talk Privately-
You’re here because you have listened to my podcasts, watched my YouTube videos, read my comprehensive perspective from hundreds of pages of posts and references – so do feel free to set up a time to review your personal matters by phone.

I have been answering a ton of questions on the comments of several posts here at CorePsych Blog [this one with >140 comments], and realize many of the readers here need more time, and more information regarding meds and the issues with meds – and just don’t have someone local to help resolve those next steps. Psych complexity is workable – if it is addressed comprehensively.

If you’re regularly unhappy with you or your child’s progress, have been walking in the darkness for years, and are just plain old frustrated with current inadequate intervention strategies – such as:

- ADHD meds just not working the way they should
- Chronic psych problems that are not resolving
- Refractory, ‘untreatable’ depression
- Unexplained moods and anxiety that won’t quit with multiple complex issues
- Addiction recovery with cravings that sit on your shoulder
- Brain injury interventions – more than just anti-epileptics
- Mixed Medical and Psych challenges, including more extensive testing
- SPECT Brain Imaging Cookie Cutter Results my personal review [or second opinion] – including neurotransmitter specifics

I can then give you targeted feedback if we can connect with your more specific history, laboratory testing, & med trials – and my comprehensive questionnaires that will save us time on the consult.

Phone Consults Are Often Helpful
Helping you decide what-to-do-next, seeking further evidence, is completely reasonable with a phone consult. Millions get on the phone everyday for specific input with medical and psych challenges. I won’t be writing for any medications unless you come to Va Beach, but I can discuss your next investigations. It’s easy, and often just a few visits can add significant, even more useful information.

What I Do
I can order helpful testing, some of which you can do in your own home, often covered by insurance. I can follow your progress with facts. The benefits are simple: more complete questions, more answers, and a concerted effort to give you information you can use with your own trusted medical team there at home. Frequently recommendations include specific neurotransmitter precursors.  We have seen many reduce their medications with these precise interventions, and have treated many without psych meds at all. I do interpret SPECT imaging, reports are customized, comprehensive, about 15-20 pages, and never cookie cutter.

If You Wish To Chat: How
If you are interested in an initial meeting, please drop an email to Caitlin, the CorePsych Administrator.

Thanks, I look forward to our next conversations – and see you at Holistic!
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PS: Take a look at this Neuroscience page if you want more information on what we can do together, and would like more references.

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ADHD Medication Rules Purchase
“Rules” Affiliate Link
Neuroscience Details


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Depression Medications Turn a New Corner – Pristiq Details Help Understand Why and How

Some think that Pristiq is just another Effexor XR – but they aren’t thinking about the details. In this CorePsych Radio [Program 19 - tomorrow at 4 EDT] I will break down the specific details, the benefits and the concerns on this significantly different, safe and effective new medication. Download the pdf  outline for Pristiq details and tune in to the live program here.

All antidepressant are clearly not the same, and discontinuation challenges amply demonstrate the problem of assuming that all serotonergic medications hit the same receptors. If you switch them out without a careful ’switch taper’ you will witness discontinuation – even if in the same family.

Pass this along to your colleagues and friends who are curious about the latest from the clinical and research fronts on this very interesting new antidepressant – it’s different.

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PsychoTherapy Networker & IITAP: From Isolation to Connections

March 19, 2008 Brain Injury

Two Meetings, both with similar themes and with many innovative new directions: International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals in Scottsdale – hosted by recovery luminary and international addiction expert Pat Carnes PhD, and his remarkable team – and Psychotherapy Networker >3000 attendees at the Shoreham in DC – hosted by Rich Simon PhD, editor and hundreds of dedicated volunteers…. Both echoed a common theme: the evolution from isolation to connections and real relationships within the treatment community.

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