Coaching and Leadership to Live Well
-- Beyond Stroke and Brain Trauma
Benefits of Psycho-Neurological Functional Resilience Therapy:
for Families and Survivors
1 Learning to see and then
2 Learning to manage fatigue and challenge toward positive change. Fatigue doesn't always equal depression!
3 Understanding where to simplify and also diversify life through the changes in impairment. Rehabilitation isn't just in someone's office; you can learn to invent.
4 Survivors and Families can actually develop a richer and more graceful life! Your life can actually expand after the contraction of stroke.
Learn the best and newest information here. My double perspective --as survivor and specialist -- will totally change your perspective on how to live with the emotions generated by the physiological changes of of stroke and aphasia. This is unique. No one else is looking this way yet. Survivor, family, rehabilitation pathologist, or medical practioner: This is the place!
"Contact me for a free 20 minute "Meet and Greet"
Solving Difficulties and Providing Information -- Survivor and/or Family
Education.: Learning how brain plasticity give a whole perspective on how far change can go! Rehabilitation therapies are essential, but attitude, perseverance and pleasure are everything in making recovery more successful. Emotions are signals of a physical system in distress. Learning what these different signals are after stroke helps make an alliance with creating positive brain change.
Coaching: Managing emotions, attitude and well being: the how of making a partnership with emotions to enhance recovery, the how of the relevance of brain plasticity, the how of creating simplicity and pleasure in brain recovery.
Deeper Inquiry: As needed when it helps to ensure success.
The work with me -- much like physical and speech therapies -- is learning new specific ways to enhance progress and recovery. Psychological and emotional recovery is working with the neurological changes to aid the brain to reform itself and create new function and self-confidence. Neuro-plasticity is a whole new way of thinking about how much change is possible, and I am combining that thinking with mental health and recovery over time.
Easy FREE Face-to-face Video-calling Technology Across the Nation
Call me from your own Skype screen: ruthreschphd.
I can now serve you wherever you are around the country from my office to your home or office. With a computer and a videocam we can see one another, me in my office and you in the safely, comfort, and privacy of your own home --using the free Skype video-call technology over the internet.
Go to www.skype.com to read what it is all about. Then the easy way to download is to Goggle Skype and link there to the Download for your computer, Mac or Windows. After download the Wizard will easily help you install it and will ask you to make a skype calling name. That's it!
When you call someone -- like me -- to try it out, you will learn to press the little video camera button at the bottom your Skype screen and they -- or me -- can see you too.
Get your friends to install Skype too, and experiment with free national video-calling with them. It is vastly easier for an aphasic than telephones!
Seek therapy or coaching sooner rather than later.
Don't wait. Say "Yes" to your future!
For Family and Caregivers: Call me and I will tell you THE 3 top things you need to know about emotions and living well through recovery.
For Survivors: Call me and I will tell you the One most important thing you want to know about your recovery.
Who am I?
I am a long time, experienced psychotherapist and a person with aphasia with other impairments twenty-nine years from my stroke. These two perspectives together give me a personal and clincal understanding of the difficult emotional and social issues that aphasia and stroke survivors and the loved ones face. This is a unique combination!
I have a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and have done post-doctoral training in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at New York University. I have been in private practice in New York City, Washington State and Oregon for more than 30 years. I was Assistant Professor at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York Hospital, and Downstate Medical Center State University of New York, as well as Adjunct Professor at City University of New York, Graduate Clinical Supervisor. I am currently an Allied Staff Member at Providence Medical Center, Medford, Oregon, Neurorehabilitation Department. I am a Second Degree Reiki and a student of Stephen Victor's work in Hellinger Family Constellations, Fields of Grace. I specialize in emotions, coping well and neuroplasticity.
I am a Board Member of the National Aphasia Association, an aphasia educational resource organization, and Oregon State Representative; and I am a Life Member of the American Psychological Association. (see my Biography page for more details)
Use the CONTACT ME page to arrange a time,
escudier@jeffnet.org
Video-call through Skype : ruthreschphd
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I will bring my best knowledge, empathy, and listening to our sessions. When everyone brings willingness, and a strong desire for something different to happen, psychotherapy can spark something new and essential. It is a two way street - aphasic to aphasic. Payments for sessions. I will shortly be a Medicare and Medicaid provider again and will be accepting a few insurances. In the meantime I can be an "out of list" provider for some insurances.
When we discuss fees I will at this time ask for payment prior to agreed appointments through PayPal
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