Welcome To Dr. Sara Rosenquist - Clinical Health Psychologist
Support for the Mind When Your Body Is Going Through a Lot
A new diagnosis, a long course of treatment or pain that won’t let up affects far more than your body. It can change your mood, your sleep, your work, your relationships and the way you see yourself. Health psychology focuses on exactly that connection: how what happens in your body and what happens in your life influence each other.
Dr. Sara Rosenquist is a board-certified clinical health psychologist who has spent her career helping adults, couples and families through chronic illness, cancer, chronic pain and the changes that come with midlife and aging. She uses a bio-psycho-social approach, looking at the whole picture rather than a single symptom, and teaches practical tools, including self-hypnosis, that you can keep using long after therapy ends.
You don’t have to manage all of this on your own.
Areas of Focus
How Dr. Rosenquist Can Help
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Health Psychology
Stress, worry and low mood can affect symptoms, recovery and how well you are able to follow treatment, and health problems can take a toll on your mood and relationships in return. Dr. Sara helps you understand that connection and put it to work in the direction of health.
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Chronic Illness
Living with a long-term condition means managing far more than appointments and medications. Ongoing symptoms, fatigue and uncertainty can strain your mood, your work and the people closest to you. Therapy offers a place to come to terms with what has changed, build coping skills and live fully alongside your condition.
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Cancer
Hearing that you have cancer can be terrifying, and many standard treatments are invasive and distressing. Dr. Rosenquist trained in Cancer2Health, the bio-behavioral program developed at Ohio State University and shown to reduce stress, improve mood and ease treatment side effects, and brings its best elements into individual therapy.
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Chronic Pain
Chronic pain affects nearly one-third of Americans, and medication alone is often not enough. Research shows that psychological approaches improve quality of life and reduce disability. Dr. Rosenquist teaches self-hypnosis and other coping strategies to help you manage pain, ease fear of re-injury and get back to what matters to you.
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Sexual Difficulties
Illness, cancer treatment, chronic pain, medications and the normal changes of aging can all affect desire, arousal and comfort. As a health psychologist and certified sex therapist, Dr. Sara helps individuals and couples understand what has changed and rebuild a close, satisfying intimate life.
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Fertility Challenges
When you long for a child of your own but the cradle remains empty, your heart aches. Every month, each round of treatment can be heartbreaking, cutting to the deepest part of your soul. All the infertility tests and medical procedures you undergo require that you dissociate just a little from your body, separating your deepest emotions from the act of love.
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Pregnancy & Couvade
Pregnancy is an emotional time for women. Hormones are but one small part of the massive changes occurring in a woman's body and about to occur in her social world. Pregnancy is a time when a woman is more vulnerable than ever, a time when she needs the love and support of her partner and her village – the community of family and friends that she belongs to.
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Success Stories
Dr. Sara is the most understanding therapists i have ever been to. Her open heart & mind method has made a tremendous difference in my life. Keep up the amazing work!!!
I would like you to continue challenging me. I have done very well for myself since my first session and would like to continue taking steps forward to improve my sex life.
Great initial session, I feel confident in the approach and look forward to continuing along the approach as I strongly feel it is going to greatly help my wife & I.
Helpful session for me. I feel there is hope for gaining better insight into my crippling (at times) anxiety. Also I’m more optimistic about improving relationship with my husband.
Meet the Doctor Dr. Sara Rosenquist
Ph.D., ABPP, FACHP
Dr. Sara Rosenquist is a Board Certified Clinical Health Psychologist (ABPP) and Fellow of the Academy of Clinical Health Psychology (FACHP). She helps adults, couples and families cope with chronic illness, cancer and chronic pain, and with the ways health changes affect mood, sleep, relationships and intimacy. She is also a sex therapist certified by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), an approved consultant certified in clinical hypnosis by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), and the author of “After The Stork: The Couple’s Guide to Preventing and Overcoming Postpartum Depression”. She enjoys working with clients from her office in Chapel Hill, NC.
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