We are expanding our facility and our services to include professional counseling provided by Aimee Rhoden, Licensed Professional Counselor. It is our belief at The Winchester Institute that integrating your Mind, Body and Spirit will help you achieve optimal health.
Counseling is available to address the cognitive, emotional and social barriers that are present on the journey to a healthy existence. Aimee treats individuals, adults, adolescents, families and couples. Aimee specializes in the areas of depression, anxiety, body image, wellness, life transitions and relationships.
We seek to treat the whole person through chiropractic care, massage therapy, nutrition and now, mental health counseling. Aimee is now available to schedule appointments at The Winchester Institute, in a soothing setting, designed to promote healing and change.
The following are excerpts from the article “Reconnecting the head with the body.” Written by Jonathan Rollins
“Integrated care is essentially the collocation of physicians with mental health care providers, working dynamically and consulting together throughout the day to best help clients,” says Curtis, an associate professor in the counseling program at Western Carolina University (WCU).
Researchers have found that up to 60 percent of patients’ visits to their primary care providers have no biological basis. According to one study conducted in 1991, 80 percent of patients with psychological distress present to primary care with unexplained physical symptoms according to Eric Christian licensed professional counselor who helps agencies develop integrated care sites as the integrated care coordinator for the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) in Asheville, N.C.
“When doctors perform tests and everything comes out normal, that’s a good time to have the counselor talk to the patient and find out what else might be going on. How are things at home? At work? Have they been laid off? Clearly, those stressors can play a role in headache or chest pain or other physical conditions the person is experiencing,” says Curtis, who worked in mental health before becoming a counselor educator and completed his final internship at a medical center that provided integrated care.
“People often come to the doctor thinking that if they can just get that stomach pain or back pain taken care of … They don’t understand that the physical, the mental and the spiritual are often connected” Curtis states.