These increasingly bright Spring days may not seem so for those who find themselves struggling with transition or emotional upheaval. Psychologist Dr. Carole Orem – Hough, and Dr. Bryan Woods, psychiatrist help us explore depression, help and hope for our “Dark Days.”
Dr. Carole Orem-Hough, psychologist, is trained in Depth Psychology, EMDR and IFS. Depth Psychology, examining the depth (deeper parts) of human experience. EMDR, a powerful technique helping to process dysfunctionally stored memories. She utilizes the Internal Family Systems model and work from Dan Siegel’s theoretical viewpoint — learning to balance between chaos and rigidity.
Depression or anxiety often accompany times of transition. These feelings can be alleviated by addressing current problems and working through the underlying issues. Life challenges can be connected to childhood or early experiences. Working through childhood or attachment issues can prove liberating — patterns that have been ingrained from an early age, that promote unhealthy choices can be changed. New, healthy choices can result. Life changing alternatives present themselves as you utilize the healing potential of your own psyche. The psyche – like the body – has an innate healing nature. This guides her practice. The use of the unconscious to facilitate that healing is powerful. Being a part of that healing process is a privilege and requires a relationship between the therapist and client that is honest, nurturing, and respectful. Here is a link to a recent segment on Dr. Oz discussing Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Dr. Bryan Woods, of Maine Medical Center, has extensive training and experience in adult psychiatry. He received his MD from Washington University in St. Louis in 1989. He graduated from his psychiatry residency at the Louisiana State University Medical School, Department of Psychiatry in 1996, and he was appointed to the LSU faculty. In New Orleans, he was an attending psychiatrist at Charity Hospital and the psychiatrist at LSU’s outpatient HIV clinic treating patients at various stages of illness for co-occurring psychiatric complications.
Since coming to Maine in 2000, Dr. Woods has worked at Spring Harbor Hospital and the Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta. He returned to Maine Medical Center in 2006 to work in his current position as an attending and outpatient psychiatrist at McGeachy Hall in Portland. Dr. Woods specializes in the treatment of chronic, severe mental illness and psychopharmacology. He treats patients presenting with a wide range of psychiatric conditions, from acute or mild problems related to adjustment or the effects of life stress to more severe and debilitating mental illnesses. He also provides clinical instruction to MMC residents and presents lectures regularly on topics related to psychiatric disorders and psychopharmacology.
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