Services
Operating in an ethically and culturally sensitive manner, the Mind-Body Clinical Research Center fosters awareness, growth and resiliency building during each step of the healing process.
Our team works closely with primary care and other healthcare providers to deliver integrative care. Our clinical services are rooted in scientific research and include best practices treatment approaches for healing both the mind and body.
Stand UP to Anxiety
Stand UP to Anxiety is designed for adults who are having difficulty managing, understanding and approaching their emotions, especially managing anxiety. The goal of this program is to help individuals understand their emotional experiences, particularly anxiety, address avoidance of emotions and gain insight about behaviors driven by emotions.
Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) Program
Developed at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, SMART is a comprehensive mind-body group focused on teaching coping skills aimed at improving stress regulation, promoting relaxation, and increasing connectedness to self and others. SMART will help you achieve these goals by decreasing the physical, emotional, mental and behavioral effects of stress. SMART may be helpful for patients with stress, anxiety and mood problems and individuals with co-occurring health concerns (meaning mental health issues + a physical health issue), such as obesity, pain, cancer, diabetes, etc. (13 sessions)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Program
This program is most commonly used to treat borderline personality disorder, chronic suicidal thoughts and self-injurious behaviors. It is also effective for individuals with emotion regulation difficulties and depression. The “dialectical” piece focuses on the ability to take different viewpoints and create balance between one’s changing outlook and accepting situations as they are. The “behavioral” piece focuses on the ability to look at and understand behavior choices and learn new coping skills. Participating in our DBT program generally involves taking part in a skills group, individual therapy and phone coaching. Most of our skills groups are 14 to 16 weeks with the opportunity to re-enroll to continue building skills mastery. Learn more about Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Mind-Body Clinical Research Center Services
Our clinical services include individual treatment and group-based treatment programs.
Our individual treatment approaches include:
- Cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) for mood and anxiety disorders
- Specialized treatments for PTSD (Cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure)
- Mindfulness and relaxation training
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- Behavioral medicine (e.g., pain management, medication adherence, coping will illnesses)
Our group-based programs are our frontline form of treatment. We highly encourage patients to give our group-based programs a try; these programs provide helpful skills and are similar to workshops.
Our current group-based programs include:
DBT-A Multifamily Skills Group
DBT focuses on building mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills. These skills are intended to help people to more effectively manage intense emotions, reduce impulsivity, build self-esteem and improve interpersonal relationships. DBT-A is designed for parents and teens to attend together to work on building emotion regulation skills as a family. Please note parents must also undergo an intake session and will have a diagnosis for billing purposes.
DBT Parenting Skills Group
DBT focuses on building mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills. These skills are intended to help people to more effectively manage intense emotions, reduce impulsivity, build self-esteem and improve interpersonal relationships. The DBT Parenting group is intended for parents of children 10 and up who may be too young to participate in DBT-A or where child/teen motivation may prevent the child from engaging in group themselves. Please note parents must also undergo an intake session and will have a diagnosis for billing purposes.
Radically Open DBT (RO-DBT)
Overview: RO-DBT Is an evidence-based approach for individuals who feel "stuck" in thoughts and behaviors that are limiting their openness to novel experiences. Individuals who struggle with problems with "over-control" are often described as inflexible, emotionally restrictive and either disagreeable or overly eager to please others. This group focuses on balancing playfulness and seriousness in living in accordance with our values. Building awareness of when our bodies are in "threatened" or "overwhelmed" states and practicing skills to induce relaxed and open states. Individuals will learn how to enhance the nonverbal and verbal "signals" we give off in interpersonal situations that are preventing us from fostering better social relationships. Lastly, they will learn to recognize when we are in "fixed" or fatalistic mind" and practicing specific exercises to help build willingness to confront problems with curiosity and openness to learning.
Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors (HLB) Group
Members of this group will learn active coping techniques aimed at helping you to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that may contribute to unhealthful eating and weight gain. Topics include stress management, general nutrition, reading food labels, relaxation skills and adaptive thinking skills or working on body image.
Parents of Transgender & Gender Diverse Children
The goals of this FREE group are to offer educational material and support for parents, caregivers, and other adult family members of transgender, non-binary and/or otherwise gender-diverse children. The group will offer space for free-form discussions where members can listen to each other and receive peer support. Individuals will earn more about the following topics: navigating the physical, mental and social complexities of gender diversity, especially as it relates to the family; supporting, empathizing and being present with your child through the social challenges around gender; and exploring various gender affirming services, what they are, and how to access them.
Fee-for-Service Sliding Scale Clinic
Being part of an academic medical center, we are committed to training and research. The Mind Body Clinical Research Center is part of the Stony Brook University Consortium Training Programs in Psychology, which includes a doctoral internship program accredited by the American Psychological Association; a pre-doctoral externship program; and a post-doctoral fellowship program. Our trainees come from top Universities throughout the country and are closely supervised to provide high quality, evidenced-based care. Our interns and externs provide individual and group-based therapy as part of our low fee-for-service clinic. Fees are determined on a sliding scale up to $90.
Clinical Hours
9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday
Daytime and evening groups available
Our licensed providers accept a number of insurance plans. Please contact us at (631) 632-8657 for more details Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 12pm; 1pm to 4:30pm
