ARIZONA Sports psychiatry
Sports psychiatry seeks to optimize mental health and athletic performance. I am a competitive amateur mountain bike racer and previously played semi-professional basketball in Israel and, to me, training and competing is a way of life. Through this lens of shared experience, I treat psychiatric issues in athletes.
Conditions treated
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Depression, anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, ADHD, bipolar, addiction, insomnia, autism, etc
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Dealing with performance anxiety, pressure, focus, confidence, and team dynamics.
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Overcoming "choking", "the yips", and not living up to potential.
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Managing mental health aspects of traumatic brain injury.
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Coping with injury or retirement from competition.ngine Helelptin
treatments
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Psychiatric medications with a focus on issues unique to athletes like effects on performance, weight, sleep, recovery, and body composition.
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Talk therapy using cognitive-behavioral therapy, visualization, mindfulness, stress-reduction, and finding balance in life and competition.
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Nutrition for mental health and athletic performance.
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Understanding psychiatric medications in the context of performance-enhancing drugs, doping, and prohibited substances.
FAQS
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Sports psychiatry vs sports psychology: Psychiatrists are medical doctors that can prescribe medicine, order lab and diagnostic tests, and treat the biological side of mental health as well as provide talk therapy. Psychologists are not medically trained and focus on talk therapy. I often work with sports psychologists that perform talk therapy for an athlete while I manage medications and biological aspects of treatment.​
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​Length of treatment: This ranges from problem-focused consultations as brief as a couple appointment to life-long management of medications and other issues.
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Ages treated: Athletes from 15-years-old and up. ​