Dr. Sara Acker Leo is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who provides individual psychotherapy to adults and adolescents with a wide variety of medical, emotional, and mental health issues. Dr. Leo has two office locations in Boston (Back Bay) and in Concord, Massachusetts. Dr. Leo's theoretical orientation is integrative, drawing heavily from cognitive-behavioral (CBT) and mindfulness-based approaches to therapy while incorporating relaxation training, clinical hypnotherapy, meditation, and biofeedback into her practice.
Dr. Leo's primary areas of interest include working with clients with medical issues including chronic pain, immune disorders, infertility, fibromyalgia, TMJ, IBS, rheumatological disorders, cancer, and stress-based illness. She also works extensively with clients with a variety of anxiety, mood, and adjustment disorders. Dr. Leo earned her doctorate in clinical psychology with a specialization in clinical health psychology from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.
Dr. Leo's primary areas of interest include working with clients with medical issues including chronic pain, immune disorders, infertility, fibromyalgia, TMJ, IBS, rheumatological disorders, cancer, and stress-based illness. She also works extensively with clients with a variety of anxiety, mood, and adjustment disorders. Dr. Leo earned her doctorate in clinical psychology with a specialization in clinical health psychology from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.
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Pain is a complex experience that incorporates biological, neurological, and psychological factors.
When a person is experiencing chronic pain from an injury or a condition such as fibromyalgia, arthritis, or lupus, they also experience changes in their everyday ability to function and their interpersonal relationships that can add to their stress levels and even to their experience of pain.
Behavioral medicine treatment for chronic pain conditions incorporates a variety of techniques.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be used to help learn new ways of processing the experience of daily living with chronic pain and to work toward healthier behaviors and improved communication with physicians and significant others about your experience.
When a person is experiencing chronic pain from an injury or a condition such as fibromyalgia, arthritis, or lupus, they also experience changes in their everyday ability to function and their interpersonal relationships that can add to their stress levels and even to their experience of pain.
Behavioral medicine treatment for chronic pain conditions incorporates a variety of techniques.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be used to help learn new ways of processing the experience of daily living with chronic pain and to work toward healthier behaviors and improved communication with physicians and significant others about your experience.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT is an approach to psychotherapy that focuses primarily on how thoughts, behaviors, and emotions interact and affect one another.
CBT is very present focused: "What symptoms am I experiencing right now?", "How does the way I think about situations affect how I feel about them?", "How can I change the way I think or interact in certain situations to improve the way I cope with them?"
There are many different techniques that are used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
CBT is very present focused: "What symptoms am I experiencing right now?", "How does the way I think about situations affect how I feel about them?", "How can I change the way I think or interact in certain situations to improve the way I cope with them?"
There are many different techniques that are used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
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This office is a short walking distance from the Back Bay T Station on the Orange Line and the Copley Square T Station on the Green Line.
This office is located right next to The Concord Cheese Shop and the Concord Players in downtown Concord.
There is on-street parking and a public parking lot directly across the street.
If contacting us by phone, leave your name and number and the best time to reach you.
This office is a short walking distance from the Back Bay T Station on the Orange Line and the Copley Square T Station on the Green Line.
This office is located right next to The Concord Cheese Shop and the Concord Players in downtown Concord.
There is on-street parking and a public parking lot directly across the street.
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