General Practitioners

• Primary Care
  Mind Over Mood was chosen for inclusion in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service’s Books On Prescription program. The Books On Prescription program is a selective list of self help books that primary care physicians and mental health specialists in Great Britain can “prescribe” for patients with mood disorders.
• Emergency Care
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Gynecologists

• Pregnancy
  Many women experience anxiety during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. While many eagerly anticipate motherhood, countless stressors can increase a woman’s chances to develop anxiety during the perinatal period. These stressors include a previous history of anxiety, experiencing a high risk pregnancy or a traumatic childbirth experience, a previous history of miscarriage or fertility issues, fluctuating hormones or another difficult life circumstance. Women who are perfectionistic or have extremely high expectations for themselves may also be at risk of developing a perinatal anxiety disorder.
• Labor and Delivery
  Many women experience emotional distress related to infertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum phase. The changes that occur during this phase of life include...

Neurologists

• Autism
  According to a recent ‘conservative’ estimate, there are approximately 500,000 autism spectrum cases in the United States, including perhaps as many as 1 in 150 children. Autism is the fastest growing population of special needs students in the US, having grown by over 900% between 1992 and 2001, according to data from the United States Department of Education. In 1999, the Autism incidence rate in the US was generally cited at 4.5 cases per 10,000 live births. By 2005, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates one of every 250 babies is born with Autism, or 40 cases per 10,000. As many as 1.5 million Americans may have some form of Autism, including milder variants, and the number is rising. Epidemiologists estimate the number of autistic children in the US could reach 4 million in the next decade (Autism-Help.Org, 2008).

Psychiatrists

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is diagnosed in 10% of children between the ages of 4 and 17.  ADHD can manifest as a combination of multiple persistent problems, such as difficulty sustaining attention, distractibility and impulsivity. Many individuals have these challenges throughout their lives and many learn strategies to help manage their symptoms.
• Stress Management
  Traumatic memories are often avoided. When we think of traumatic or disturbing events that occurred in our life it is natural to try to distract ourselves with something more pleasant. Avoidance of the disturbing memory may have the unintended consequence of perpetuating our emotional distress and anxiety. In EMDR the client and the therapist focus on distressing memories, visual images and physical sensations while simultaneously focusing on something else such as eye movements, hand tapping or a noise. This process helps to overcome the avoidance and helps process the traumatic memory in a new and more adaptive way. During EMDR the client may also learn a variety of strategies for emotion regulation, distress tolerance and stress management. Ideally, the client learns to think differently about the traumatic event and the grip that the trauma has held on their life is loosened.
• Depression
• Mental Health
  All children experience anxiety and sadness from time to time, but some children and teens are less able to cope with stressors or triggers. Kids struggle for a variety of reasons, including temperament, changing life situations, hereditary and genetic factors (including a family history of mental health conditions), as well as learning problems.
• Psychiatry
  The Anxiety and Depression Center prides itself on the experience, training, competence and reputation of our clinicians. Each therapist is grounded in the principles of CBT and each therapist has different areas of expertise. Most of our clinicians are Diplomates or Members of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. The Academy of Cognitive Therapy is an international organization that is considered the gold standard in certifying the competence of cognitive therapists. Our therapists are active in teaching graduate students and psychiatric residents. We often teach continuing education programs for other clinicians that want to learn how to do CBT. Several of our staff are on the faculty at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. We are active in teaching, writing and community education.
• Anxiety

Dermatologists

• Lesions
  Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder is an Obsessive-Compulsive related disorder. Excoriation Disorder, sometimes referred to as Dermotillomania, involves recurrent skin-picking behavior and typically is focused on acne, scabs, or perceived imperfection in skin such as around the nail area. The recurrent picking behavior typically results in lesions (which may also result in infections and scarring).