Address

899 Skokie Blvd #304

Northbrook, IL 60062

Fax

(847) 564-8755

Biofeedback, Stress, and Pain Management Wellness Programs

Dr. Ben Allen is a clinical / health psychologist with extensive training in psychotherapy, biofeedback and practical skills for helping clients with stress and anxiety, and pain conditions in the following way:
  • Identify core issues and factors contributing to stress and anxiety
  • Develop a treatment plan with targeted goals and practice skills to get well
  • Provide psychotherapy to help work through life challenges and enhance mental well-being
  • Biofeedback and self-regulation: Learn to identify and attune to mental and physical symptoms of anxiety, gain insight on a deep level, and correct and guide relaxing and restorative responses
  • Evaluate muscle tension, and behavioral and ergonomic factors that may contribute to chronic stress and pain
  • Learn how to relax muscles, enhance healthy posture, optimize wellness at work and in life activities
  • Learn practical strategies to reduce pain and stress, and feel more balance and peace of mind
Benefits of using biofeedback: In today’s fast-paced world, stress disorders and pain conditions are prevalent. Self- awareness through biofeedback can empower a greater sense of control and ability to reduce tension and anxiety. It helps to become more self-aware of triggers of symptoms, and less optimal postures and ergonomics, behavioral habits, breathing, heart rate, muscle tension, palm sweat, cold hands, among various other ways stress, tension and pain manifests itself in the body. As a coaching tool, self-awareness of internal biofeedback can reveal how to restore inner calmness, along with the practical stress management tools and skills learned. Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy can reveal issues and thought processes activating stress and challenging coping abilities, and enhance thought process healing skills.
Other key benefits:
  • Stress management and biofeedback skills can be quickly experienced and learned
  • Self-awareness and self-regulation really help lower anxiety and reduce pain
  • This is a cost-effective way to acquire tension-anxiety-pain reducing skills for life!

Wellness Programs

  • Anxiety Conditions: test and performance anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, post-traumatic stress, OCD, generalized anxiety, adrenal fatigue, acute and chronic stress affecting mind and body symptoms
  • Muscle and Body Tension: Headaches (tension and migraine), TMJ, Back Pain, Neck Pain, and other conditions
  • Pain Management Training to help with a variety of pain disorders
  • Sleep Disorders
  • Wellness Skills Support: Essential Hypertension, Raynaud’s Disease, Irritable Bowel Disorder
  • Cognitive Disorders of Executive Functioning and Self-Regulation, Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Wellness Coaching Programs: Including Smoking or Habit Cessation and Diet Support Programs
  • Career Issues and Life Transitions