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Hi! I’m Dr. Kaminetzky and I am an OCD and anxiety disorders specialist. I love what I do. I love it because I am able to help transform people’s lives. I have seen the therapeutic progress patients have made when they have totally invested themselves in the treatment.
I received my Ph.D. from Hofstra University – a program awarded for its training in cognitive behavioral therapy. I spent two years of my predoctoral training at The Reeds Center, a practice which specializes in OCD and anxiety disorders. Within Northwell’s OCD Center, where I completed my postdoctoral fellowship, I took a particular interest in group-based exposure therapy and started the Exposure Lab group which I continue to run out of my private practice.
Exposure therapy is the gold standard of care for OCD and anxiety disorders. I have dedicated my career to implementing the treatment according to the latest research in cognitive behavioral science.
The treatments we use are highly customized, combining adherence to the latest treatment protocols while taking a holistic approach to our client’s life, history, and interpersonal relationships.
ERP is a type of psychotherapy based on cognitive-behavioral principles that is specifically designed for the treatment of mental health problems involving fear, anxiety, and discomfort. It has been extensively researched and is widely considered the gold standard treatment for anxiety disorders, OCD, and phobias. ERP involves voluntarily experiencing external situations and internal thoughts and sensations that create feelings of anxiety or discomfort (exposures) without using safety behaviors (response prevention). These safety behaviors are difficult to resist, as they often provide immediate relief from anxiety. The same is true for avoiding situations that make you anxious. However, the harsh reality is that safety behaviors and avoidance maintain your anxiety in the long-term. In working with an ERP therapist to resist doing safety behaviors while gradually seeking out situations that trigger anxious feelings, you can increase your capacity to handle anxiety. This will enable you to pursue the life you want, instead of living life “on the run” from anxiety.
CBT is an approach to psychotherapy that seeks to help you better manage your emotions by changing the way you think (cognitive) and act (behavioral). Research has demonstrated that CBT can be effective in treating a wide range of mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and OCD. A CBT therapist will help you identify the beliefs and behaviors that fuel your negative emotions and then work towards adopting beliefs and behaviors that reduce the intensity of your negative emotions and enable you to move towards your values and life goals.
This updated treatment for trichotilomania and skin picking disorder is a specific type of CBT that focuses on helping individuals to recognize and interrupt the behavior of hair pulling. This may involve techniques such as awareness training, in which the individual becomes more aware of when and where they are pulling their hair, and response prevention, in which the individual learns to resist the urge to pull by using a competing response or distraction.
Other strategies that may be included in comprehensive behavioral treatment for trichotillomania may include relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing or progressive muscle relaxation, as well as stress management techniques, such as exercise or mindfulness meditation.
How would you describe what makes our approach to treatment unique (as compared to generalists, etc)
Inference-based cognitive behavioral therapy (I-CBT) is a recently popularized treatment of OCD which is a non-exposure based treatment. Recent initial findings demonstrates effectiveness similar to exposure therapy. The treatment works by helping individuals understand the process by which their obsessions occur and learn to differentiate between uncertainty and doubt, while developing trust in yourself.
The treatments we use are highly customized, combining adherence to the latest treatment protocols while taking a holistic approach to our client’s life, history, and interpersonal relationships.
ERP is a type of psychotherapy based on cognitive-behavioral principles that is specifically designed for the treatment of mental health problems involving fear, anxiety, and discomfort. It has been extensively researched and is widely considered the gold standard treatment for anxiety disorders, OCD, and phobias. ERP involves voluntarily experiencing external situations and internal thoughts and sensations that create feelings of anxiety or discomfort (exposures) without using safety behaviors (response prevention). These safety behaviors are difficult to resist, as they often provide immediate relief from anxiety. The same is true for avoiding situations that make you anxious. However, the harsh reality is that safety behaviors and avoidance maintain your anxiety in the long-term. In working with an ERP therapist to resist doing safety behaviors while gradually seeking out situations that trigger anxious feelings, you can increase your capacity to handle anxiety. This will enable you to pursue the life you want, instead of living life “on the run” from anxiety.
CBT is an approach to psychotherapy that seeks to help you better manage your emotions by changing the way you think (cognitive) and act (behavioral). Research has demonstrated that CBT can be effective in treating a wide range of mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and OCD. A CBT therapist will help you identify the beliefs and behaviors that fuel your negative emotions and then work towards adopting beliefs and behaviors that reduce the intensity of your negative emotions and enable you to move towards your values and life goals.
This updated treatment for trichotilomania and skin picking disorder is a specific type of CBT that focuses on helping individuals to recognize and interrupt the behavior of hair pulling. This may involve techniques such as awareness training, in which the individual becomes more aware of when and where they are pulling their hair, and response prevention, in which the individual learns to resist the urge to pull by using a competing response or distraction.
Other strategies that may be included in comprehensive behavioral treatment for trichotillomania may include relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing or progressive muscle relaxation, as well as stress management techniques, such as exercise or mindfulness meditation.
CBIT is a thoroughly researched approach to the treatment of tics and is recommended by the American Academy of Neurology. CBIT helps individuals better understand the context by which the tics occur and methods by which they could be eliminated or reduced.
Inference-based cognitive behavioral therapy (I-CBT) is a recently popularized treatment of OCD which is a non-exposure based treatment. Recent initial findings demonstrates effectiveness similar to exposure therapy. The treatment works by helping individuals understand the process by which their obsessions occur and learn to differentiate between uncertainty and doubt, while developing trust in yourself.
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