PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Pamela Law, PhD, PC

Psychotherapist
       Certified GriefRecovery® Specialist
Certified Grief Counselor
Community/Professional Education Programs
GriefRecovery® Outreach Programs

The focus of services for Pamela Law, PhD, PC, is on THRIVING after grief, loss and change, including:

• GriefRecovery® Outreach Programs
• GriefRecover® Individual Programs
• Complicated Grief Reactions
• Grief, Mourning and Bereavement after Loss of Loved One (recent or long ago)
• Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury
• Motor Vehicle Trauma
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/Other Trauma
• Death, Dying and Disability

Additional Areas of Clinical Interest and Expertise

• Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (College and High School Re-Entry)
• Professional Women with Brain Injury Diagnoses

Professional Services

Psychotherapy with individuals coping with mental health issues after the death of a loved one, breakup of a significant relationship, traumatic or acquired brain injury or other traumatic experiences or for those concerned about them, including:

• GriefRecovery® Individual Programs
• GriefRecovery® Outreach Programs/Quarterly Community Groups (limited space available)
• Psychotherapy, Grief Counseling/Complicated Grief Therapy
• Individual, Couples, Family
• Community Education, Training and Partnerships
  • for training, education, program development and public policy/advocacy
  • with universities, service organizations and professional associations including funeral homes, religious institutions, schools, hospitals and rehabilitation centers, insurance companies, and state and government agencies
• Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy Evaluation and Treatment - see Challenges after Brain Injury for more information

Pam partners with her clients to address the following:

• Psychotherapeutic Assessment Assessment
• Comprehensive Assessment of Affect/Mood, Cognition and Behavior
• Coping with Grief, Loss and Change After BI
• Psychosocial and Adjustment Issues After BI
• Assessment of Trauma Related Challenges
  
• Dealing with Loss Directly
  • Naming and describing personal losses.
  • Gaining new insights about personal trauma(s).
  • Releasing negative patterns.
  • Creating meaningful rituals.
    
• Making the Loss Meaningful
  • Finding meaning after suffering great personal tragedy.
  • Understanding loss can be meaningful without being glad it happened
  • Answer what can I do know that this has happened
  • Finding how can make loss personally meaningful versus why me?
    
• Sense of Self
  • Recapturing a strong sense of self.
  • Reframing discrepancies in how see self and the world.
  • Honoring self by realizing it is ok to be angry, sad, disappointed…
  • Attending to lost and deferred dreams, making new goals
  • Supplementing inner resources to promote belief in ability to endure
  • Recognizing individual gifts and strengths
  • Promoting self-advocacy and setting strong personal boundaries
    
• Dealing with Fears and Anxieties
  • Tapping into courage to let go of fears.
  • Navigating painful memories
  • Minimizing after shocks
  • Resolving guilt
    
• Spirituality
  • Tap into transformative power of loss with exploration of spirituality.
  • Realization of impermanence, integrating life with loss.
  • Resolve painful messages received from well meaning individuals.
  • Support to ask burning questions in your soul.
    
• Moving On…Transforming
  • Enjoy the present.
  • Move forward with confidence.
  • Look back without regret.
  • Navigate transitions in life with less conflict.
  • Expand interpersonal relationships.
  • Commit to life and living in spite of significant loss experiences.
  • Connect meaningfully with others.

Individually Tailored, Outcome Oriented Brain Injury Services for Brain Injury Diagnoses (Minor, Mild, Moderate, Severe)

• Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • Preceded by comprehensive cognitive-communicative evaluation
  • Compensatory Strategy Development
  • Internal and External Aids
  • Process (specific cognitive processes) and Domain-Specific(functional settings)
  • Cognitive Prosthetics
  • Environmental Modification

Pam partners with her clients to address the following outcomes:

• Cognition – formal and informal assessments
  • Attention and Concentration (immediate, focused, alternating and divided) while identifying distractors.
  • Memory (immediate, short and long-term)
  • Orientation to person, place, time and circumstance)
  • Problem solving using good judgment
  • Reasoning (deductive, inductive and multi-process)
  • Thought Organization
    
• Communication Functions
  • Auditory Processing and Retention
  • Verbal Expression, including
    • word retrieval - coming up with the word you want when you want it
    • pragmatic communication skills - social interaction skills
    • semantics - vocabulary
    • syntax - structural component of language
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Written Expression
    
• Executive Functions
  • Self-Awareness and Insight
  • Goal Setting
  • Planning
  • Self-Initiation
  • Self-Inhibition
  • Self-Monitoring
  • Evaluation
    
• Neurobehavioral Intervention
  • Comprehensive assessment which Identifies and describes behaviors in functional settings using an antecedent-behavior-consequence model with an underlying focus on theory that “all communication is behavior and all behavior is communicative.”
  • Provide functional alternatives for behaviors interfering with the rehabilitation process
  • Develop a formal management plan, including realistic goal setting within team process with necessary environmental modifications
    
• School Re-Entry
  • Assist students, families and educators to successfully transition students in their return to middle and high schools and college programs.
  • Comprehensive evaluation with practical treatment recommendations to maximize learning in least-restrictive educational settings/programs
  • Actively participate in re-entry activities, including visiting classrooms, meeting with and educating teachers about brain injury and the individual’s needs, assist in developing individualized education plan
    
• Brain Injury Education
  • Certified Brain Injury Specialist Training as designed by the American Academy for the Certification of Brain Injury Specialists
  • AACBIS Examination Proctoring
  • Provide informative and easily understood information about brain injury with particular relevance given to the individual’s concerns and needs.
  • Assist a variety of professionals in better understanding life after brain injury.
  • Consultation with employers for successful return to work strategies and for disability cases.