Role OverviewProvides specialized behavioral health assessment, counseling, and evidence-based psychogastroenterology interventions for patients with Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (DGBI), functional gastrointestinal disorders, chronic GI symptom burden, and symptom hypervigilance.
What You Will Do
Delivers gut-directed cognitive behavioral therapy (GI-CBT), gut-directed hypnotherapy, psychoeducation, and counseling designed to reduce GI symptom severity, improve quality of life, and promote self-management.
Why It Might Be a Fit
Serves as a clinical resource for behavioral management of disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), functional dysphagia, rumination syndrome, functional heartburn, esophageal hypersensitivity, functional chest pain, chronic nausea, gastroparesis-related symptom amplification, pelvic floor dysfunction, and other DGBI conditions.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Social Work and eligibility for independent clinical practice/licensure
- Experience providing psychotherapy or counseling services in a healthcare or outpatient setting
- Knowledge of psycho-gastroenterology principles and the relationship between behavioral health and gastrointestinal disorders
- Experience providing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Strong patient counseling, assessment, and therapeutic intervention skills
- Experience working with patients experiencing anxiety, depression, adjustment disorders, or chronic illness
- Ability to build rapport and establish therapeutic relationships with patients
Benefits
- health
- disability
- retirement
- wellness
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